2006 Accord Sedan - New Dads Car

mwmcginn · 01-20-2007, 08:50 AM

So, The convertible RX-7 is gone, as is my fun little Impreza. The autocrossing may be over for now, but I now have a great little baby girl! She is the best, but I still have needs. Needs to do something with this car.

I am not a car audio guy, In the past I bought what works well enough. In this carpc install I am looking for a decent install and to add funtionallity, but learn something new.

I will post some pics of what I have so far when I find my card reader.

mwmcginn · 01-20-2007, 10:56 PM

Here is the match up of the screen to the Honda attachment kit.

mwmcginn · 01-20-2007, 11:10 PM

-Used Dell Inspiron 5100 (already had this) dell.com 4 years ago
-New Lilliput 7 in touchscreen lcd ($190) ebay
-New 7 port usb hub ($20) amazon
-New laptop power controler, so it starts when the car is turned on ($41) www.w3bma5t3r.com/
-New MS streets and trips with GPS ($80) amazon
-New Extension cables for VGA and USB ($25) newegg
-Used Center dash piece ($20) ebay
-Kensington DC power adapter ($25)

mwmcginn · 01-24-2007, 01:37 PM

I took out the cubby area tried a fit. It looks like the space is too tight so I am going to have to shave back the plastic parts to get a fit. It looks like it is tight enough that I wont be able to put mounting tabs on the bezel I may just run two bars in back to mount the monitor to.

mwmcginn · 03-01-2007, 06:27 PM

I shaved the sides back using a dremel. The stock cubby fits back in fine in case I need to take it out.

mwmcginn · 03-01-2007, 06:29 PM

Here is the monitor fitting now.

mwmcginn · 03-01-2007, 09:25 PM

Right now, I am waiting for the epoxy to dry to the front bezel. I cant wait. Got a trip coming up in a few weeks and want to have it pretty operational.

mwmcginn · 03-06-2007, 10:27 PM

So, tonight I worked on bezel installation. The epoxy was dry and so I thought we'd see how to make it fit. The bezel requires 2 posts to be stuck into something, so I took a bar that came with this accessory bezel (this one for the hybrid installation (although my car is not a hybrid) and cut two ends of it off and bent it, and then screwed it into the sides of the plastic. I placed the holes far enough back that I could take it all out and no one would know when I went to sell it.

Anyway here are some pictures of that.

mwmcginn · 03-06-2007, 10:28 PM

A couple pictures of the bar.

mwmcginn · 03-06-2007, 10:29 PM

And after I cut one end off, getting ready to do the other.

mwmcginn · 03-06-2007, 10:31 PM

Here it is with one installed on the left side. I used a few leftover screws from the RX-7 (it lives on!)

mwmcginn · 03-06-2007, 10:32 PM

Here is what it looks like installed.

mwmcginn · 03-06-2007, 10:35 PM

By the end of the hours of fitting this stuff, the epoxy was starting to come undone (where it looks whiter). This time I roughed up the top with sandpaper and now it is sitting for the night with more epoxy on it. Hopefully it will do.

mwmcginn · 03-06-2007, 10:37 PM

Hopefully this will give others a better taste of what it looks like to do this job. I cant wait to move this out of worklogs, but I still have a laptop to install and some cabling to run. Thanks for checking out the progress.

mwmcginn · 03-07-2007, 10:44 PM

Here, I have taken out the back seat to run the cables.