2007 Ford Fusion

arturusfury · 10-22-2007, 10:11 AM

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This is my first carPC and my first new car as well. Week or so ago I bought a new 2007 Fusion and so far have loved it, just wished it had navigation and the ability to play DVD's. I had been watching the forums here for ideas long before I actually got my new car and I was mostly waiting until I did get something newer (Past car was a 2000 Focus, didn't look too good for a car PC install) and "better".

I have all of my parts ordered ... i think, and have been assembling them at home. I snapped a few pictures of the car and everything before I get started, one thing I'm going to be paying major attention to is making sure I can take everything out easily and return the car to a stock look if I ever decide to sell or trade it in.

Well that was a long time ago, after much heartache and plenty of stops and restarts, here we go again ...

I scrapped most of my earlier ideas as the 8" screen just wasn't going to work without some custom fabrication which I just wasn't comfortable with yet.

Mobo: Intel D201GLY Little Valley
Proc: Onboard 1.33GHz Celeron
Ram: 1G DDR2 667
Screen: Lilliput 7" EBY-701 (Premounted Double-Din Kit for Fords)
HDD: 120GB Western Digital 2.5" 5400RPM
PSU: M2-ATX HV
DVD: None as of now
GPS: BU-353 GlobalSat GPS USB Receiver
WLAN: EnGenius EUB-362EXT 802.11g
Case: 4th Gen Mini ITX Case from Mobile Computing Solutions

This is just a few before pictures of the car:

arturusfury · 10-26-2007, 08:45 PM

Cleared all my old pictures out as they weren't going to have much to do with the new install, but I'm gonna post more stuff here later

PC Stuff:
Coming Soon

Audio Stuff:
So I'm going to be getting a 4ch amp sometime, gotta find a decently priced one that still puts out good power. I'm following in the footsteps of fusion fanatic a little by mounting two 6x9's in the rear deck of the fusion. There are spots for them to go, just nothing there. So I'll wire the rest of the factory speakers in series, and the 6x9's in parallel, should give me plenty of sound and I may not even need to install a sub in my trunk.

Car Radio Accessory Switched 12v+ Wire: Green
Left Front Speaker Positive Wire (+): White
Left Front Speaker Negative Wire (-): White/Brown
Right Front Speaker Positive Wire (+): White/Purple
Right Front Speaker Negative Wire (-): White/Orange
Left Rear Speaker Positive Wire (+): Brown/Green
Left Rear Speaker Negative Wire (-): Brown/Yellow
Right Rear Speaker Positive Wire (+): Brown/White
Right Rear Speaker Negative Wire (-): Brown/Blue

Wiring from Amp -

+ of Amp -> White (Left Front +)
White/Brown (Left Front -) -> White/Purple (Right Front +)
White/Orange (Right Front -) -> Brown/Green (Left Rear +)
Brown/Yellow (Left Rear -) -> Brown/White (Right Rear +)
Brown/Blue (Right Rear -) -> - of Amp

moboman · 10-26-2007, 11:53 PM

Wow, those new fusions are nice looking cars.

So, how were you going to mount everything in your trunk? Were you going to put the shuttle right next to your sub box?

Nice project so far.

afterdigital · 10-28-2007, 12:53 PM

dude

i'm subscribing to this thread to follow it.....

GoHybrid · 11-04-2007, 10:26 PM

just a thought- cut a block of your favorite foam to fill the factory opening there, and use your favorite tool to sand/cut/shape it perfectly flush to the factory bezel face, then laminate a sheet or two of real carbon fiber over the whole thing, covering foam, opening, and all. Then just be accurate and careful and retrim all the openings, particularly the one small enough to match your lilliput...

In fact, if you are paying close attention to the cure of the resin, you can actually cut the opening with a template and a very very sharp x-acto knife when the resin has kicked enough to hold the fibers solid, but not cured so hard it can't be sliced easily. You might experiment with some test pieces (fiberglass, not carbon for economy's sake) before you commit to the pretty one.

Then you don't have cheesy sticker carbon, and solved your screen issue. It should look OEM+. If you want the high gloss then probably the easiest thing for a beginner to do would be to go find a couple cans of Deft clear lacquer (easily had from Lowes/Home Depot) and just go in light layers until you start to build up a gloss. It can be polished out with light sanding (600-2000) and rubbing compounds.

Thoughts?

*edit* actually, if you don't want to do it yourself but like the idea, i'll do it for cost of materials and shipping. Looks like a fun project.

afterdigital · 11-05-2007, 06:32 PM

sweet.........looking good so far!!!!

if i may make a suggestion:

why not tie in your pc into the AUX of the factory radio? You'll get perfect quality sound....

moboman · 11-05-2007, 07:26 PM

because then he still has to have the headunit in his car. That was my plan originally, because I have an extra JVC KDG-230 which has an aux in. Then I got to thinking and thought that I'd rather not have a head unit and just let the computer equalize and power my amps. Also a nice amplifier sounds much better than the factory headunit, as well as being able to have more power.

Another question would be where to put the factory headunit? He put a monitor in the dash.

afterdigital · 11-05-2007, 09:18 PM

hmm. if the factory system sucks, i agree. but if you're out to save money and extra work:

- place the unit in aux
- connect pc
- enjoy
assuming of course the speaker and such will work without the head unit. i'm thinking the answer is "NO".....

afterdigital · 12-10-2007, 09:26 AM

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any updates on the project? breakdowns? breakthroughs?

rijndael · 07-20-2008, 04:15 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by afterdigital

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any updates on the project? breakdowns? breakthroughs?

yeah...anything new? my girls new car is the Fusion, and she wants me to put one in her car. Any news?

arturusfury · 07-01-2009, 02:18 PM

So, update from a project so long ago, check the first post for the most recent stuff but I've started over, sold a few parts bought a few more (like a new case, touch screen, gps unit) and started again, lets see what happens.

I have it in the car now, but I need to clean up a lot of the wiring and still finish putting in a few extra speakers and finish fine tuning the sound quality. But I'm super excited to have it all working!

I will get more pictures up soon and post them a the top of the page, but for now here is some shots with my iPhone.