Yep, yet another WRX install. Im going a different route than the other Rexer'z and using a bland unobtrusive motorized VGA touch screen with the stock bezel and my Clarion deck for audio.
Here's the car its going in:
And the dashboard that it will become part of:
The radio will be moved to the lower slot, and the screen will be installed in the upper slot, this way i will be able to adjust volume with the screen open.
Im still in the beginning phase of purchasing parts, i started first with the screen so i can get that installed and run the wires for the vga and usb so that I wont have to dig around behind the dash. I decided on the K90 in black because of its simplicity, It was a basic motorized screen with no extras and especially no LCDs or buttons that light up and dont match the rest of my interior lighting at all. Its nice that it also has the backup camera input, but from what i have read, it wont autoswitch between VGA and Aux so ill have to manually switch over to use the backup if i install one. Aux 1 will be used for my slot-load dvd player that i already own from my last car. This will be installed under my driver seat until i finish building and testing the actual carpc and then that will take place of the dvd player. Either that or i may just keep that installed alongside my carpc and not get a dvd player for it. I figure once its installed, i dont need the dvd drive in the car if i have a dvd player, and when its in the house i have an ide to usb adaptor i can use to connect a dvd drive to the pc. Any movies that i will want to watch in the car will be loaded on the hard drive anyways, so the dvd player would really just be for backup usage.
Sorry, im just rambling on, but im pretty excited to have finally moved from the research phase (aka lurk mp3car forums) to the purchase phase.
Ill keep this thread up to date, but from the looks of what i plan to do, there probably wont be much in the ways of pictures after the screen has been installed.
Thanks for wasting your time to read my post, look back for more later!