Carputer on a Budget: 2002 WRX ver. 2.0 - Page 6

SnowDrift · 12-01-2006, 01:16 PM

Temporary gps spot.

SnowDrift · 12-01-2006, 01:23 PM

Shot of the engne after that day of wiring. It could use a washing too.

SnowDrift · 12-01-2006, 01:33 PM

Here's the hatch with everything together and hidden. I picked up a sub and amp from the black firday deals last week for only $149.99. It adds the bass I'm looking for with out completely vibrating everything. I don't wannna be like laxplaya and put 10 layers of dynomat on my hatch door. I had 2 12" last year, 1 10" sounds better in the openess of the wagon. Plus everything inside vibrates. It's what us wrx owners have to give up for the performance. I'm sorry to say it's not G or bmw. I'm already planning out (in my mind) the fiberglass box I wanna put the sub in when the weather gets better here(next spring).

SnowDrift · 12-01-2006, 01:37 PM

Here's the view from my normal driving position taken this morning. The steering wheel blocks the screen a little so I need to move my head over to see the entire thing. But viewing angles look good so far. Looks like glare might be a problem though.

SnowDrift · 12-01-2006, 01:41 PM

The button holes didn't come out as well as I wanted. It's harder to push the buttons further down because there's more bondo around them (like the most important one, power)

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SnowDrift · 12-01-2006, 01:50 PM

And here I've started to prep other stuff for paint, but I need to take a break from this project and really concentrate on my final project for school. I have a feeling I'm gonna have to pull off some laaaate night heroics to get it done. I think this is a good place to take a break for now. At least it's up and running, but still faaaar from being d.u.n. Any comments and suggestions are welcome. 'Til next time

mugurg · 12-01-2006, 03:55 PM

Congrats! Hope mine will come up at least half good your project did...

0-0-7 · 12-01-2006, 08:05 PM

very inspiring for someone who is getting started.

how did you wire the power cable from batt to trunk ? any closeups ?

SnowDrift · 12-02-2006, 12:18 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by mugurg

Congrats! Hope mine will come up at least half good your project did...

Thanks for the kind words, Mugurg. It only looks good because like you, I took my time on it. Hopefully you have better luck fitting everything. Did you see that wrinkle?

SnowDrift · 12-02-2006, 12:39 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by 0-0-7

very inspiring for someone who is getting started.

how did you wire the power cable from batt to trunk ? any closeups ?

Thanks for the compliment. I started this thread in hopes of helping other first-timers and those still gathering info.

The power cable is your standard 4 gauge amp kit power cable. One end is connected to the battery with an inline fuse a few inches down. Then it goes through the firewall (wrx's have a hole you can just pop out a plug) and down the side of the car. It goes under the rear seats, through a hole in the umbrella cubby I drilled and into the the distribution block. That's where I can tap for any needed 12volt power. Right now I have a 8 gauge power cable running to the sub amp and 16 gauge(I think) going to the cigarette outlets. If I wanted to add another amp, that's where the 12v would come from. I can take some more pics tomorrow when it's daylight out.

LaxPlaya8513 · 12-04-2006, 11:55 PM

ahaha, An! my car doesn't have 10 layers

only in certain areas lol. The doors i only have 2 layers on and the trunk has about 6 or 7 on SOME areas the rest of it only has 2-3 layers

i only had alot of layers because i bumped it up to flush the final peice of deadening

And damn, i haven't seen your car in a while! Been too busy! I'll stop by some time, maybe tomorrow, dunno yet. I wanna see this baby in action!

mugurg · 12-05-2006, 04:20 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by SnowDrift

Thanks for the kind words, Mugurg. It only looks good because like you, I took my time on it. Hopefully you have better luck fitting everything. Did you see that wrinkle?

Sure i did saw the wrinkle... but, unlike you i have totally canceled the ashtray and the lighter.. That gave me the chance to install the damn 8.4". I am not a smoker anymore anyway...
The rest.. i am not in a hurry, i will take time and doing it right . The car it's fine meanwhile, i am working on a spare dashboard

Did you managed to fix all the buttons inside your ashtray?

SnowDrift · 12-05-2006, 11:43 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by mugurg

Did you managed to fix all the buttons inside your ashtray?

Well, they're only temporarily in there for now. I have to stop working on the car to finish a project for school (instead of posting in this forum

). I'm trying to find nice/cool looking buttons and switches too, but not having much luck. I don't have access to such things. Not all of us are secret agents...LOL.

SnowDrift · 12-05-2006, 11:51 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by LaxPlaya8513

ahaha, An! my car doesn't have 10 layers

only in certain areas lol. The doors i only have 2 layers on and the trunk has about 6 or 7 on SOME areas the rest of it only has 2-3 layers

i only had alot of layers because i bumped it up to flush the final peice of deadening

And damn, i haven't seen your car in a while! Been too busy! I'll stop by some time, maybe tomorrow, dunno yet. I wanna see this baby in action!

Not very much to see right now, it's just up and running (must..do...home..work...aaaarggg!!!). I did manage to get music through the hu with Justin's help, but wouldn't you know, that same night, I finally found my hu manual and it showed how to do that...LOL. All these years, I could have run my ipod, portable dvd, laptop... through the hu and didn't even know.

LaxPlaya8513 · 12-06-2006, 06:33 PM

^^ LOL!!! how did you activate the aux in anyhow? i forget on Alpines...