Hey guys,
I'm about midway through my install now and thought i would share it with you. I've been lurking on these forums for quite some time now (about 4 years or so), so its finally my turn to show you what ive done. My background is IT, i've installed computers into almost everything so its only natural that it would be the car next. Not only did i want the computer in there, i have an affinity for very loud, ear crunching bass audio installs. So, first step was to buy all the gear, then get it installed. buying the gear has taken me almost 2 years as i stopped halfway and did a full upgrade on my home theatre system. Anyways, Im going all out on the car and have clocked up about $ALOT so far. Im getting the basic audio/computer functions built in and then ill start to wire in all the juicy stuff like OBD, Fusion Brain, TPMS, etc etc, i wont get into all of that yet. My Carputer has been named A.M.E (Advanced Mobile Entertainment).
The base system ive almost finished building is as follows:
AUDIO
Headunit: Clarion DXZ-935 (absolutely fantastic sound processing)
Front Speakers: Alpine SPR-17s Components @ 200wrms
Front Amp: Alpine F250 4ch amp (bridged to 2 channels)
Rear Speakers: Eclipse 4-Way 6x9s (powered off head unit)
Sub: JL Audio 12W7 @ 1000wrms (this thing is a friggen fire-breathing monster)
Sub Amp: JL 1000/1 RMS
Power Acoustic 2 Farad Capacitor
COMPUTER
EPIA SP13000
1gb DDR400 Ram
Seagate 320gb Sata HDD
Audigy 2 NX
Slim Slotload DVD Drive
Xenarc 700IDT Monitor
Had an OPUS150, it didnt work, so just bought an M2-ATX which.
Garmin GPS18 USB Receiver (5hz)
Windows XP
Road Runner (Is there anything else!!??)
Garmin Mobile PC with NZ Open Source Maps
Franson GPSGate
Everything has been housed in the boot of the car. But to get everything in the way i wanted it, i ended up having to recreate the entire boot floor, making a custom cut door to get access to the spare wheel, then getting the sub box custom built to the dimensions of the sub requirements and the area it had in my boot. All the fab work for this except the sub box i did myself and took a rather long time of measurements, cutting, more measurements! My garage has just been an absolute mess of saw dust, cuttings, tools all over the floor :P Once im happy with the way the carputer is running, then i'll be building an enclosure for that on the left side of the sub.
All the wiring for the audio going into the boot. All power cables routed on the right side of the car and all audio cables routed on the left side of the car. Keeps that nasty interference away!
Starting to build the custom boot floor. I traced the outline of the whole boot, cut up one large piece of MDF, then cut that piece in half so i could slot it into the boot.
Building the enclosure for the JL amp
Panels in, some audio gear in, just doing some testing with the computer.
the enclosure for the capacitor is countersunk into the spare tyre. This is the custom door that i made so i could still get access to my spare tyre.
The vinyling and carpeting took me and a friend aaages to do, so glad thats over. Got to say though, the boot looks friggen awesome at night!
Shot of the dash
3 Way Switch for the M2-ATX mounted to the right of my steering wheel. Flick it down for AUTO (on with ign, off with ign) [blue led], flick it to the middle keeps computer OFF, flick it up for OVERRIDE (keeps computer on, regardless of ign) [red led]. Also a digital voltmeter and a temperature sensor to track the temp of my sub amp.
Ill post some more pics once ive made the enclosure for the computer. At the moment, its all just sitting in a little cardboard box in the corner of my boot.
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