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08-16-2004, 09:15 AM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South Florida
Vehicle: BMW 528i, Lexus GS400
Posts: 100
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BMW E39 80% Done...
First would like to say thanks to everyone on this board. This was a great project to work on.
CarPC Components:
Epia M10000
256 ram
60G hard drive
IBM laptop DVD player
ATi Remote Wonder
Lilliput touchscreen
Opus 90watt PSU
Radio Extreme FM Receiver
Routis '04
FrodoPlayer (great app) w/Brushed Metal Skin
Stereo:
Pioneer DSP-9200 Equalizer
Clarion MCD 360 Cross Over
1000watt JBL Mono Amp
600watt MTX amp (top and mid)
2- 12" Rockford Fosgate Punch Subs
4- Pioneer speakers (front doors & rear deck)
2- Tweeters
1000watt cap
Home made sub enclosure (Home Depot parts)
Now that everything is working I plan to pull it apart and do a lot of cleaning up. But that will have to wait as I will be going on vacation next week and have a lot to do at work before I leave.
Well below are pictures of my 97 BMW E39. Please tell me what you think.
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08-16-2004, 09:32 AM
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Newbie
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 6
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Great job, looks like a very nice install. You are a first person on this board who I think did an E39 install.
I also have an E39 and will be starting my project in a next few weeks ,getting all the parts ready now. I am very curiuos on how you managed to install a Indash Equilizer where the cup holders should be, and I can`t really see on how you installed your liliput in dash. I wish you can take more pictures so all of us can see.
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08-16-2004, 11:13 AM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South Florida
Vehicle: BMW 528i, Lexus GS400
Posts: 100
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The deq 9200 separates the brain of the EQ from the display/control screen. The brain is mounted in the glove box. The display/control screen took some effort:
-Removed the a/c control unit and the frame.
-Moved heated seat control from the original location
-Remove the front cup holders
-Line up and cut the metal frame that holds the a/c control unit (used a dremel)
-Used a small piece of wood to build a custom holder for the heated seat controls (also covers up any open spaces)
It is still a bit rough. I plan to pull it apart and clean up the piece of wood for the heated seat controls and repaint it. Will be a couple of weeks before I can get to that through. I will take more detailed pictures when I redo that section.
The screen is a Lilliput. Used a small piece of wood to make the frame and did a lot of bando work to build it up. There are some places on the screen which need a little more work as well.
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08-16-2004, 12:10 PM
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Newbie
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 6
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Thanks alot for your reply, hope you can post some more pictures soon.
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08-16-2004, 04:58 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: New Jersey
Vehicle: 00 BMW 323Ci
Posts: 559
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Post pics of the screen.
Rich
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08-16-2004, 05:13 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NYC
Vehicle: Honda Element
Posts: 173
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Looks nice, but why did you mount the LCD sideways?
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08-16-2004, 05:30 PM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Spagcave, in da UK Today's phrase: J'aime Alizee
Vehicle: Spagwagon------ Status: Big Avatar King
Posts: 2,009
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Quote: Originally Posted by jpelzer
Looks nice, but why did you mount the LCD sideways?
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08-17-2004, 04:36 AM
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Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 5
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Nice installation!!
Where did you put the cables from the trunk?
Nicke
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08-17-2004, 07:50 AM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South Florida
Vehicle: BMW 528i, Lexus GS400
Posts: 100
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Sorry for not responding sooner. Was in the garage all night working on another project car. Anyway, I will take pictures of the screen tonight and post either tonight or tomorrow morning.
The cables from the trunk run up on both sides of the car under the carpet. Since BMW's battery is in the trunck and main + is routed on the passenger side. All RCA cables were routed on the drivers side all other wires on the passenger side.
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08-17-2004, 07:51 AM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Vehicle: 2002 Saturn SL2
Posts: 817
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Dude, the trunk is supposed to be used for cargo 
Anyways - nice one! |
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08-17-2004, 09:40 AM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South Florida
Vehicle: BMW 528i, Lexus GS400
Posts: 100
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Yurily
The woman says the same thing. Works great for me, when we have to carry around alot of stuff we use her car
I have found a better picture of the screen in the stash I had it is attached below |
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08-17-2004, 11:06 AM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 478
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do you have any light pictures? i am dieing to see...
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08-25-2004, 09:37 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Australia, Melbourne
Vehicle: 94 Ford Probe GT
Posts: 1,279
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I took his last pic and made it lighter for you to see seeming your waiting so long  |
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10-17-2004, 09:40 AM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South Florida
Vehicle: BMW 528i, Lexus GS400
Posts: 100
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BMW E39 Update
Finally got some time to work on the car. Below are the updated pictures of my install.
Also recently dumped the radio extreme FM receiver and replaced with a WinTV USB devise. Works much better now.
This carputer is packaged in such a way that will make it easy to switch between this car and the one I am currently building. Didn't want to make 2 seperate PC
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10-18-2004, 10:25 AM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: AB, CANADA
Vehicle: 2003 Nissan Pathfinder LE
Posts: 137
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Cool. The gps receiver is on the outside of your car?...
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