executor485

Just gotta say this...

No alcohol because of underage peeps, but bikini's contest... Thats just funny to me, am I alone on that?

Damn...my baby thread is at page 92 ? I have not kept up with it in the past year - but then again, it is mostly for the GTs of old, when Navi was not available or available in only certain trims. Cause to be honest, I would not put in a CarPC again. Too much work.

I have to agree with you there. My wife just got a new Lexus and honestly, the Nav/bluetooth/music/etc is much nicer and better integrated than my CarPC solution. For my next car I will be looking for a totally integrated system rather than a CarPC setup. The technology/availability has become much more accepted in recent years. For our 05-09's though, CarPC was/is king.

http://store.mp3car.com/Mimo_720_F_Flex_Screen_USB_Powered_7_Touch_Screen_p/mon-115.htm

 

Anyone seen this yet? Pretty cool that all you need to do is plug in a usb cord. I wonder how well it works.

Nice and cheap... Not saying it wouldnt work, but considering it all goes through USB, I would think that there might be some lag time/delay. Thats a lot of info to be pushing through USB and processing a touch interface at the same time. But hey, technology has come a long way.

Has anyone used this screen? http://store.mp3car.com/Xenarc_705TSV_7_TFT_LCD_Touchscreen_Monitor_p/mon-053.htm

 

If not what do you guys think about that screen?

Pretty sure other people have used that screen. And even if not, it looks like it'd work perfect. Shouldnt have any problems with it. Good luck!

Found a picture of the exact same thing i want to do:

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/attachments/classifieds/52950d1228644571-fs-europe-carpc-parts-subaru-custom-navi-bezel-screen-tpms-kit-accessories-dsc_2250.jpg

 

This is the exact same thing i want to do! Make the bottom of the screen sit further in, to have a better viewing angle!

 

Anyone know how i could do that? I have a screen bezel coming in, I'm just wondering how to actually do that!

 

JP

That's what I did when I built mine... Now, I did mine QUITE a bit differently than most people do it. I chopped up the LCD surround quite a bit, but it was to make it smooth rather than like in your picture where you can tell where the screen bezel is.

The way I did this was... I got both parts ready, used glued popsicle sticks on the inside (the part that is inside the dashboard) to hold the screen bezel in the exact position I needed. For the actual molding part, I used "Dynatron". It's a polyurathane bumper repair kit. Mix 2 chemicals together (like epoxy) and work VERY quickly to form your screen onto the car bezel. It WILL take 4 or 5 coats, dont try to glob it all on at once, just layer it, sand it, layer it, lather rinse repeat.

Reasoning for the Dynatron was this: I was going to use fiberglass and bondo, but I had read a lot of posts that people mentioned they experience cracking and chipping within a few years. Dynatron is semi flexable, and will not vibrate things loose, and will not chip and crack after years. It was actually very nice to work with, and bonded extremely well to the car bezel. That was another point of possible issue, how well the fiberglass and bondo would adhere, and not loose that adhesion over time.

The biggest factors of any proper looking build are this: Time and lots of sanding. Also, make sure you take the screen out of the bezel before you start (cant remember where, but I recall someone that just taped over the screen and tried to do this kinda stuff... wasnt pretty).

Why would it cost so much? At &t unlimited data for around $30 and the the PDA tether plan is @$60. I have a modded HTC phone and it tethers fine. I just have to get started on this carPC.

Just FYI... not sure why you're paying more for the tethering option... I have 2 diff HTC phones (TP and TP2) and I have never had to pay for tethering. I'm not sure your exact mods, but the phones can tether in stealth mode. Besides, why the heck should we have to pay more to use the phone's data connection that we are already paying for? We shouldnt, so I dont. Havent had any issues in 2 years and I tether almost daily. The data connection your phone uses is NO different than the data connection that is used to tether, its purely a gimmick that the cell phone companies try to take advantage of you with.

i should now be considered stage 2 thanks to infamous tuning!!! i used ecuflash 1.29 and i finaly got wuthaheck to do & even my anoying check engine light is now off (since DP is catless & UP w/ no egt). ALL thanks to infamous (oh so helpful) and the creator of this post!!!! wooo wooo:whore:

Gratz... I'm talking to infamous at the moment about getting a tune, hopefully I'll be running quick again soon

YAY!!! Finally got ECUflash to work. I wasnt using 1.29, I was using .34, .38, .42 and nothing... Found out I should be using .29 and bam, it worked straight away.

THANKS!!!

Wait a minute, wasn't I the one that first tried the vagcom cable a few years ago and reported that it worked? Quicksilver just did all the hard work in making a write up:) It was a PITA to get it to connect but it ultimately worked. RR works flawlessly.

 

Thanks quicksilver for the write up!

Blasphemy...

I've gotten it to work great with the logger, but I keep having problems with the ECUFlash. Not exactly sure whats happening with it all, but I'm going to wipe my laptop and restart all this stuff sometime to see if that fixes it.

I run 4

Just need graphics cards, monitors, money, all that jazz...

I wouldnt be worried about running dual touch screen monitors, I'd be more concerned about actually finding a piece of software that can work well with it. I know RR (roadrunner/riderunner) has some good support, I think some ppl have used dual monitors on it. But whatever the case may be, it would be cool to see what comes out of it.

Finally finished my full carputer install with bezel. Here's the link with updated pictures.

http://www.legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93487

I've really been enjoying the Tatiana Vanilla cigars...

Sure they are flavored cigars, but they're damn good... Tastes like your eating vanilla ice cream, have it with a nice whiskey and/or whiskey and coke and its just like drinking a vanilla coke. mmmm...

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.

Yep... Some ppl have done that as well, or if they dont have the SpecB, they will order the nav unit faceplate for the cubby and do it that way.

The stock system has its limitations, and some people want more than it offers. I would be fine with the stock setup, but I do like my carpc as well. Its a give and take thing

So I havent read all 95 pages of this thread, but I'm sure someone's covered it....

 

Is this possible to do using the stock Subaru NAV touchscreen?? That would be amazing.

I think someone had it working, but the resolution of the stock screen was pretty junk because they couldnt get a VGA hookup, they had to do it through the composite video. So just that alone would make it problematic for me personally, not even counting how difficult it would be to get the touchscreen part working.

I can 't even get to that site today.

 

I was going to buy that system and use it as my backup/file server.

That sucks... Not working on my end either.

I'm eventually going to switch to a rackmount setup for my server, possibly get it co-location hosted so I dont have to buy a T1 line for my home, let an offsite place deal with all that That was probably the cheapest deal I've seen anywhere, and it came with almost all the internals, not bad at all.

Say a bunch of the guys on here were so happy that we all chipped in and paypaled you the money for it. We can even set up a fake thread for "proof".

No better way to start a marriage than with a lie.

Good luck with the nuptials and congrats!

Wouldnt have to lie if it was true, get everyone to chip in a few bucks ROFL

Flowers? Come on...just buy it.

New bedding, much needed appliances and kitchen amenities, etc. And again, she'd kill me if I bought it But if it was a gift lol