Thread: 2002 Honda Civic LX-G CarPC

Looks like you have done your research!

Subscribing to see what comes of this. Good luck, and

i subscribed as well...i might be able to grab a few ideas from you as things start to pan out for you...

I just installed a 7" transflective in mine. so if you need any help or ideas for how to dremmel the bezel, let me know and ill do my best to help you out (let you know what areas i messed up at)...

good luck..
Dan

Thanks Toaster and Dan. I might want to get a few tips from you once i get to that part of the build.

Any opinions on the hardware i got? Good? Bad?

I will post some pics of my car the way it is now sometime today.

Looks like you did a great job getting good hardware and matching hardware! That is sometimes the tricky part. One thing I see is you have a lot of USB devices. The voomPM case if you want to keep it looking nice, you wont be able to use the USB headers on the mobo. So you will just get the 2 on the back. So you will need a hub. You will need a hub anyways, but you definately need one. Maybe you can get some of those header adapters that are simply female headers, that plug into the male header pins on the mobo and have a regular USB port on them. Straightforward wiring and cheap to buy. You could house the wireless stuff in there.

But anyways, I suggest you put the touchscreen on its own root port. So you have 1 port left. With the audio soundcard, it might want the full line too, but might as well try that on the hub. And make sure it is powered. Definately!

I can go into more detail if you need but it is pretty simple.

Ya thats what i was thinking i was going to do. I am fairly well educated with computers, so i know exactly what your talking about. Thanks for the advice.

Here are some pics of my car how it is now:

Outside


Outside again


Dash


Sub Box.....fairly scratched up from my golf clubs etc


Kenwood KAC-9152D amp


Possible dvd-r/w location?


I have a new sub box on the way that takes up about 5/8's the space of my crap custom one.

Any suggestions?

Well I have the '01, and everything looks like mine! Well except you have 2 extra doors and mine is blue!

The dash piece is perfect for a 7" screen. If you just take the screen in the case and shove it in there, it fits perfect. No gaps top and bottom and then just the weird angle piece on the right, and the depth on the left side. This is the model with the side buttons. So you might consider that with your screen for ease of installation. You can keep the screen in its case, and get a Metra kit to go around the screen case for minimal effort and a good look. I f'ed mine up because the plastic Metra uses is ABS and I broke my dremel so it was all hand done. But if you have a dremel you could make it look good.

Of course the bondo way is best, and that is what I ended up doing, and I love it.

Also my original intention was to put the DVD drive in that same spot, but I quickly ran into problems. #1 was the metal piece behind it, is very very shallow in spots, and a drive will fit but only in 1 spot. Right where the cig lighter is. Not where that useless pocket is. So it is a lot of work. And there on my car at least there is this huge thick bundle of wires that runs right there, so I would have to move that behind the metal instead of between the metal and plastic.

So it is a good place, but it will be hard to get it to fit.

I love 7th gens!

My last suggestion for now, would be tint. That is because the 7th gens are known for the hideous amount of sun they let in. I am sure you have noticed that with the sun shining brightly, even the dash cluster which is well hidden becomes washed out. I have the coupe version, and I dont know if that makesa difference. But get some tint. I got 20% tint and I find that it is the minimum dark I would go, but I have been in 30% and it seems ok but they didnt have a screen. Just letting you know that tint does really help, but it will be be Stage I rice now. It just happens that way.

Alright, i have all the hardware here and in my hands

I have started work on fabing my bezel. My goal is to keep everything where i can easily take it out and put the stock stuff back in when i want to sell the car. With that in mind, i bought the metra dash kit to go in from the front, and i modified the front portion of the xenarc bezel to go in the dash from the back. This will create an easy way to take out my stuff without modifying my actual dash.

Here are some pictures of my dash so far. The rough sanding is only about 50% done. I am using a dremel to do the rough sanding. I will then use bondo as my last filler.

Front of dash:


Sanded:


Unsanded:



Also here are some pictures of the pc case:

I took off the back plastic part and fed a molex splitter through that will power my usb hub and my usb sound card


Here it is with the sound blaster:



Tell me what you think, and if it's a good or bad idea.

Looks like a good start, but the hole point of sanding it is to get a nice smooth finish. If you use a dremel, then you will create some low points where it was there too long. Its a good place to start though.

Yes, that is only rough shaping though. Bondo is the best way to fill those small dips right? Thats what i read most often on these forums.