When waiting for some fibreglass to cure, I started trying to work out how to support the back PCB of the screen. I came up with the idea of using 4 bits of plastic with Velcro wrapped around them and some Velcro on the PCB's...
Next I cut the buttom PCB of the Lilliput in half, just to save space, and extended the IR reciever, so I can place it somewhere in the dash...
Right, back to the garage for a bit of filling...
After a few more sanding sessions and more filling, the plastic primar is applied...
Now a thicker coat of grey primar is sprayed on...
After the primar is added, you can see more clearly where to sand, so after a bit more sanding and some more primar, it was ready for 5 - 6 coats of colour...
Here it is with the Lilliput LCD installed...
Here is the IR reciever which has been glued into a dashboard button blank...
This picture shows the inside of the passenger seat. The VoomPC enclosure is sitting above the two Genesis amps on a hinged shelf to allow the DVD drive to be used. Also, you can see the secondary battery that I installed along with a control board I built so that everything in the van runs off the secondary battery when the engine is not running...
Completed...
I'm pretty happy with the factory finish look that I have created. And the screen can always be pulled out if I need to get in behind it, to get to the GPS, wireless reciever or USB radio. The wireless reciever is used to automatically update the MP3 files on the carPC when I park in my drive and there are new MP3's on my home computer.
Well, that's it, 12 months of hard work, ready for my next project.......