TURBOCAD6>>>>The Origin...win 3.11/DOS....

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 07:37 PM

O.K., so I just dug out a car off mine that I've had in storage for the last 9-10 years or so......

This car happens to be the very first car I have ever installed a computer in... back around 1994 or so....

I did alot of research back then & there wasn't very muchon the subject.... the internet has changed in the last 10 years, there was no mp3car.com

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the screen in the center console is a 10" tube monitor.... high tech at the time.... it used a sony trinitron tube & was 1024X768..... she was awsome.... cost me around $500 back then...it was designed as a "point of sale" monitor... & was attached to registers at some stores I guess... aren't our liliputs amasing... at least they seem that way to me after having to deal with the alternative...

I will be posting more pictures & description now.......

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 07:43 PM

this project was initiated by the fact that the car had a turbocharged 6 cyl grand national engine and it ran off an accel DFI... & I had to tune it with a laptop running dos at the track... building a computer into the car just seemed like the logical thing to do.... at the time mp3's weren't the real reason for me to install a pc....datta loggers & DFI tunning..... that's what started me....

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 07:47 PM

This is the hole that the computer sat in... right in the qurter panel. this car has a rollbar that was as tucked in as possible to not be so obvious...

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 07:52 PM

There was no usb back then..... my first design was a 486dx-4 w/win3.11 & I then swapped it out for a p100 & win95!!!!wow, win95 made this thing much more usefull than just a tunning aid...... from that time I was hooked..... I have never driven a car without a pc either installed...or being installed....don't think I ever will....

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 07:56 PM

I had a steel tilt nose job that I did on this car & the car was sitting on a new at the time frame from a 91 cadillac with abs brakes.... I went off on this car & the pc wasn't the real centerpiece, although it added a nice touch....

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 07:59 PM

the rims are long gone.. & through the years she's been raped of a few of her parts... but for the most part she's all there & I'm going to bring her back with todays technology...

edrex · 08-13-2005, 08:00 PM

Awesome!! Great project for its time!!

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 08:02 PM

the only way I could get a cd drive in the center console was to extend an ide cable from the motherboard to the center console...it took three trys to get something that worked half way good...

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 08:05 PM

this car was a real bad *** mother on the streets... I've beat'n everything from mustangs to vettes on the street..... this car was a lot off fun....

JC-S60 · 08-13-2005, 08:12 PM

Very nice car and project!

In the days, I bought a little IBM black and white CRT to put in my car, for the first project... never got to install it though.

How fast was/is the car and how much power does it have?

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 08:13 PM

I had to use a chopped down metal cpu case to fit it in the qtr... it was as compact as could be...even the isa risser cards were just fit around with the case.... I have it in my basement & I'll dig it out to show it.... I had to use a multiple serial board & it had a connector that branched out into a bunch of serial cables....looked like an octupus... configuring them was not anything close to "PLUG & PLAY"... man I love USB

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 08:27 PM

the best recorded time was only a 12.80 or so... but after this car had a fully done 4.3 with around 700 horse.... the engine blew before she ever made it to the track for official times... but was calculated conservatively at a high 10 seconds, if not a LOW 11

that motor was fresh though... most of my use with this car was at around 450 hp.... she ran high 12's-low 13's all day long...... I used to drive her to the track... system bumpin'.... pull the slicks & jack outa the trunk..... go to race mode...... beat some of the trailered cars..... then drive out with the a/c pumping.... she was a lot of fun...

there were 4 12"s back there dual isobaric....... & a bunch of old school rockford's.... I still have most of the equiptment... at least the rockford amps... the sub's are long gone....

turbocad6 · 08-13-2005, 08:44 PM

I had a character LCD in the overhead console... it lit up green vacum floresent & matched the 91 dash instramentation perfectly....

the car is an 83 coupe with a 91 body conversion all the way, meaning everything from the frame up was 91.... the complete dashboard with the 91 climate control... there is A LOT more here than is imediately obvious....

this car was a real shocker in person back then.... it's not the first custom I done, but was one of the more radical ones.... she remains my favorite.... the only car I know I will never sell.... My username is even this car.... now I just did a barter deal with a mechanic friend of mine who needs his car painted... he provides a new grand national drivetrain & I restore one of his 87 grand national's....

well....the engine is in....IT LIVES AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now to finish her off right this time........ I've learned a lot since I built her & she'll really benifit from that this time around...... I want to make it a show car at this point.... I'll drive her around on the streets like I did back then too....

This car was my DAILY DRIVER back then..... I went everywhere with her..... I shot up & down the jersey shore.... make it to racenight at englishtown wendsdays & fridays....... this car was fast... I mean REALLY fast on the street....... I used to be a sicker driver back then....,this car has MANY storys attached to it.... it's not the only fast car I ever had, but I drove her for the better part of 5 years....

BoyNextDoor · 08-13-2005, 08:47 PM

turbo. One word WOW. I'd really like to drive this beast once it comes along., and feel that i'd like to contribute to it's "rebirth" If there is anything i can do, please let me know...

WOW again...

xdjxklusivex · 08-13-2005, 08:56 PM

goddamn that would be the pimpest project car if i were u id throw some cash into that and hook it up big time

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