TURBOCAD6>>>>The Origin...win 3.11/DOS.... - Page 6

turbocad6 · 11-28-2006, 03:51 PM

you know what sucks... I had a done up motor, with a bottom end girdle & everything... not a stage II but dyno'd at hair over 700 hp....

I had it for a few years, always meaning to drop it in, then, one year, times were ruff & I had to sell it, complete drivetrain with dfi....

that sucks.... this car would have been in the 10's... oh well, guess you can't have everything

TurboMike · 12-04-2006, 12:50 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Malenko

are you going to up the turbo size (looks like a T25 equivilent to me)

dude a T25 can barely put a 2.0 DSM motor in the 275 hp range... no way theres a T25 on a GN motor.

TurboCad this car is rediculous, i love it. I wish i had a car with a turbo AND a car pc... (maybe awd too?

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turbocad6 · 01-29-2007, 08:27 PM

I found an old picture of the car begining a real smokey burnout from way back when... this is right after I put the 17" billets on it... this car used to do really wicked burnouts

just had to add this to the thread

turbocad6 · 01-29-2007, 08:31 PM

& one more cropped photo I found of the car towing my real racecar, my towcar was faster than some of the trailered cars

justin146 · 01-29-2007, 08:45 PM

I dont know how I missed this thread. This reminds me of my first carputer back in 1999ish. I used a 10.4 mono lcd with a Pentium 75 in my Dodge Dakota. I replaced that LCD with a color POS CRT. Even then, most on this site were using character displays and LCD TV's at really low resolution.

My current Carputer is used like your first one- I use it with the CST tuning software and datalogging.

turbocad6 · 01-29-2007, 09:52 PM

hey justin, I thought you looked real familiar, then I realized you changed your user name

your truck must be a ****er on the streets too, nothing like blowing away some hot rod joe with something they'd never expect

I miss having a really fast car to drive... gotta get something going soon

justin146 · 01-29-2007, 09:55 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by turbocad6

hey justin, I thought you looked real familiar, then I realized you changed your user name

your truck must be a ****er on the streets too, nothing like blowing away some hot rod joe with something they'd never expect

I miss having a really fast car to drive... gotta get something going soon

I got my name changed back to what it was when I first signed up in 2001

I have been here this long, but I am still considered a "newbie" ... I guess I just need to post more

turbocad6 · 01-29-2007, 10:06 PM

yeah, newbie status is based strictly on post count

Hopperhawk · 08-23-2007, 03:23 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by turbocad6

if you look at the first picture in this thread you can see where the 5" picturetube was above the pc 10".... I useda 5" color tv....took it apart & installed the guts in the dash... the picture tube was really cool & brite.... I had a tinted glass over it so when off it disapeared.... there was a panel that was on two slider tracks(along side monitor) that slid up & covered the pc screen completely....... it had the climate control face & the sony eq face on it, both of these units were deep in original form but I had to extend remote the two displays.... then the panel slid down to reveal the monitor..... most people would just say "oh ****" when seeing this car for the first time... at least twice... one when the panel came down to reveal the pc monitor & then again when I pressed the remote & the nose tilted open revealing a sick looking engine.... back then everything was polished & finished off nice..... she sat on a sweet set of 17" centerline billets that looked surprisingly appropriate on this cadillac she had the stance of a impala ss with the same sized 255/50 17's....

Hey Turbo,
I got to tell you, right around this time, I had a 14inch VGA monitor in the car with a Tandy 2500 486 as my car computer. I think it was closer to 1997. I came across what was a MP3Jeep wranger I think. All it amounted to was someone put a full sized computer in the jeep with an inverter. That sent off all sorts of sparks for me. The next thing you knew, I had a 14incher strapped on top of a milk crate with cinderblocks in it and a computer behind the drivers seat. I had to start the car before turning the computer and monitor on though because the inverter (From an old camper) still didnt have the power to handle it and the start drain.
this story brought back all those memorys and I found MP3car.com right afterwards probably as soon as they started.
I dont post much, and I may not be as talented as alot of you with fabrication.. But I have the same wishes and hopes. I dont want to just buy a prefabbed unit... I want to make it myself.
Why do you not restore the turbocad to it prior glory? Rather than LCD, go vacuum tubes again! I think it would be cool to see! Use a CRT touchscreen!
But do upgrade the computer.... gotta have USB for all the hidden goodies.

turbocad6 · 08-23-2007, 05:53 PM

yeah, I usually try to avoid cinder blocks in an install myself, but I know what you mean

I remember wedging home speakers into my car at some point & mighta used milkcrates to hold them in place, then I've had the odd occasion that a milkcrate was a temporary drivers seat too

I duno about restoring it as-was, I would rather go latest greatest really, I'm picturing it sitting on 19"s & 20"s staggered with steem rollers out back, the new dfi's are so cool too, all windows based now, no more DOS

add a fusion brain to automate stuff... someday she'll be back

the crt's suffered big time from glare too, even more so than lcds, but because the glass is rounded it never took out the whole screen, just a really bright spot that killed maybe half of it, I used to have to shield it to see it, now I'd want a sunlight viewable screen really

20mg · 11-03-2007, 01:49 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by turbocad6

..................ahhhhhh that wouldn't have been my first choice

... I have an accord coupe that I'm thinking of doing.... gotta see if I get the car cheap enough though... I'm picturing it all blacked out with a set of black 18's with a chrome lip... just don't know if I could drive a little jap thing though.... it is a pretty big coupe kinda... I really would love to build a twin turbo supra..... that would be hot..

lol ou just described my car! i have a little black golf with black 18's with the chrome lip. i dont have an exaust tho so my car isnt to ricer lol.