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it even has a peanutbutter interior.. He should have painted his door jambs chocolate brown. In fact I cant tell from here.. but he may have.

tint costs too much..

oh but he has the fake fender vent.. things... that every busted ass car in cobb county has on it.. so that must mean hes cool..

only the stock bezel with the stock buttons looks stock. Because thast the only stock configuration that is offered.

 

I had an m1-atx on mine.. I was a little irritated that its jumpers were 15 seconds, 30 seconds, or 30 minutes.. you couldn't set it for like 2 minutes to shut down when remote was killed.

 

My other problem was where it was mounted it got kinda hot (on top of spare tire) so I had big fans on it which vibrated a tiny bit and annoyed rear passnegers.

 

ny other complaint was that it was simply too slow.. At the time I didnt have access to the program to strip unneeded crap out of windows so booting took a full minute.. and that was just too long.

 

Another problem I ran into was if it broke.. I was the only one who could fix it.. cos I was the one who built it. I suppose tahts been a hard lesson I've learned in many mods on this car.. I had the same problem when my HIDs went out.

 

"stay stock say happy" as Bosco says.

well, I'm a perfectionist thats very self critical of the work that I do.. so I wanted it to look 100% stock.. or not be there at all. I kept spending more and more money and time on trying to acheive this.. basically trying to do what subaru already did with a team of electrical engineers and design engineers with me and 2 friends.. and it simply was not working out.

 

So I took it out, sold the carputer to a guy here in ATL for $300. He was going to put it in his ride. I hope it worked out for him. Seemed like a pretty cool guy. I think he said he had a grand cherokee. Lots of room for a carputer in there.

 

The only thing left is broken pieces of xenarc screens, the factory nav bezel and a coiled up VGA cable in my trunk.. oh yea.. and the gps antenna is still in there.. but I never use it cos I have an iphone now.

ya know now that you mention it i'm not sure where mine is.

 

maybe its in the arm rest..

I always run an inline fuse on any device plugged into a cig lighter.. even tho it also has a fuse in the car.

 

thats a good placement idea as long as it doesn't produce a lot of heat.

 

if it does you might need to rig up some kind of fan.

it looks very good so far.

 

I ran power right off the battery, but when I did I had substantial alternator whine.. I would recommend using something off the fuse box or a cig ligther.. you may still have whine if you do that but it should be less.

 

what is your input to the stereo? Do you have a newer car with factory aux in?

it has 4 CV boots that could fail, 4 wheel bearings (at least 4) 3 diffs, U-joints between the tranny and the rear diff that can wear out, and an oil and water cooled turbo with a cat before it..

 

plus its an interference engine..

 

theres just too much risk in incurring thousands of dollars in repairs with a single part failing to really keep it in the high risk long hauls.

I have a stock navi bezel in a box in my garage along with a bunch of other parts. That was my project, but it never got off the ground. After more than $3k in expenditure on the project I still had nothing to show.. so I got out of the hobby.

 

now I'm trying to think ahead 2 years.. this car will have 100k miles on it by then and it will be time to retire it.

what you could do (is what I planned to do) is chop up the stock system and put your own touchscreen in there..

 

but.. if you have a stock system that works I'd understand why no one would want to do that..

 

the screen is like $900 new from SOA.

site doesn't know how to correctly check for flash player version.

 

design fail.

ny times FTL.

 

I'd rather read WSJ or one of the other 13 or so news sites on my igoogle.. except usatoday.

 

hate that paper.. but I keep them around cos the "discussion" parts of the articles make me laugh.

 

being a vampire would suck.. (no pun intended but.. I'll roll with it if it makes you chuckle.) I like daylight and garlic.

 

werewolf would be better.. if you could learn to control it..

hrmm.. stake through the heart, holy water, cross, daylight..

 

heard of all of that..

 

never a brick in the mouth tho.

^ so thats why there's a hole in the Ozone?

this was supposed to be a chuck norris joke thread not a "bruce lee is better" thread.

 

bruce lee is dead.

 

sorry.. he lost. no matter how awesome he was.. his heart exploded or something.. and hes gone.

then lee mysteriously died.

 

perhaps norris used a delay punch..

if you do that I'm very interested in seeing the info.

Bruce Lee's last movie was enter the dragon (it was an awesome movie) iirc he fought Chuck Norris in this movie and defeated him.

 

Shortly after this Bruce Lee died.

the only man to win in a fight against chuck norris was Bruce Lee. (this is not true but suspend your knowledge for a second.) and he died shortly after.

f1 what atre you using for aux input? Or does your radio have stock aux in?

 

I am using the jazzy mod and I have mad ground loop even from my iphone being powered off the cig lighter.

 

its better now than it was, but most of the time I leave the thing unplugged because its so loud.

 

I dont want to have to use a GLI just for this, but I guess I dont even understand why its even a factor.

yea its just something that tells the system to turn on. You can use one of those spade crimps.

dont ask.

iirc the fuse panel has a 12v line you can tap.

 

you can use the sig lighter 12v for acc since it powrs off with the car.