Carputer thoughts.

[nickelmedia]

As some of you may know, I recently came out of an Audi A4, in which I custom fabbed in fiberglass a 7" TFT Touchscreen connected to a computer in the trunk.

http://www.iplaydirty.com/images/audi/screen.jpg


Looking at the s13 center console, I see much potential for the same setup. It looks as though there is almost enough room as it is to almost drop it in now.

The question is, should I do it?

In the Audi, I had the car connected to the pc with an ODBII cable for unlimited control of all things electronic on the car (custom digital gauges, fuel maps, butt dynos, etc.) Is there anything similar worth using on the s13 240? I'm still a total noob in this car so please forgive me.

Also, other non-car specific toys are the standard DVD, CD, Radio, GPS, Wireless Aircard for internet, Linksys router for when I'm parked or 'war driving,' and lots and lots of DivX porn :)

Has anyone else attempted this? Can something like the HKS Camp System plug into a pc/laptop?

Thoughts?

[HyperTek]

i want to consider this since I have old computer parts laying around.. dunnow about making your own hks camp sorta thingy, unless maybe you could incorperate it into some sort of stand alone ecu...

[justinhustle]

in my 240 i had a 7 inch tft monitor in the bottom din and ashtray area

in my 99 se-l maxima i had the same kinda deal....looked better in the maxima

240

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid50/p9367403ab3f2c9db214a10f2f0338a77/fcab6406.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid50/p0b3a587fadcd8f19932c308e47e77e9d/fcab6405.jpg

maxima pics

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid38/p4002f2c139d7b91e2fea2d1e8711ef4f/fd11bc30.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid38/p58d6497db93aa0bf19b22577e2a898e1/fd11bc19.jpg

and now my kenwood :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/jsteed/000_0363.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/jsteed/000_0361.jpg

[cdlong]

somebody around here did it (maybe nico). he fiberglassed a touchscreen into the spot for the radio and slot, a dvd drive, HD and wireless network card, in addition to all the other computer stuff. it was an awesome setup, worth searching for.

[nickelmedia]

in my 240 i had a 7 inch tft monitor in the bottom din and ashtray area

in my 99 se-l maxima i had the same kinda deal....looked better in the maxima


Wow! The maxima was SUPER clean. When you were using the headunit, what was the screen doing? Could you control volume, etc. with the H/U or was this a carputer at all? Is that H/U a DVD player?

[justinhustle]

h/u was a dvd player

screen showed track # cd # etc info, thats bout it.

it was blue with like green headings and white text

[bik]

i did that kind of stuff on my console... a little fibre glass, a little bondo... some fast filler.... my dash was like shit any way... also hated the poop color ^_^

[HyperTek]

u could get cheap monitors on ebay

[bik]

i did that kind of stuff on my console... a little fibre glass, a little bondo... some fast filler.... my dash was like shit any way... also hated the poop color ^_^

[Ritz S14]

Bahh keep it simple

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v98/smogtec/f1f970a1.jpg

[psychedelicbeats]

damn....... war driving in FL? LOL ... i never thought there were any stumblers over there..

[the head]

I think if i did a screen i would have to incoporate the HKS CAMP system into it the fishbowl mode is the shiznite

[tastyratz]

actually im going to be integrating a computer into my car soon enough as well. www.mp3car.com has everything youll need for research. I plan on not going touchscreen and molding a trackball into my center console. ive got an EMS so im going to be using the screen for programming on the fly and sensor output. Im also picking up a gps mouse off ebay for like 40$ and using my screen for a navigation system. you can get a cheap wireless 802.11g and connect to the internet at hotspots, play your mp3s off the hard drive, if you have a nice alarm like me you can plug into the alarm and program it change settings etc. get voice control of everything or write emails etc all through voice synthesis in a microphone. if you have a later s14 you can plug into the obdII as well. limits are endless and you can pull one off really cheap too.

[cali240sxdrifter]

I saw a setup like this where a guy used a touch screen and old computer parts lying around. I saw this in a 350z forum called my350z.com. He had links to what screen he used to wires and stuff like that. I would do something like this and use that DataScan (http://www.plmsdevelopments.com/consult_if.htm). But I just don't like having a screen in my car, looks tacky. But if it monitors your engine vital signs then I might be up for it.

[tastyratz]

thats nice, a consult port. for people not running standalone thats a great reason to get one of these. awesom find man. if you really wanted to spend the cash http://www.oqo.com lol. otherwhise you can rig something

[sr240mike]

http://ashspecz.com/carputer/ZPC/ZPC.htm
I just posted about using Nissan Datascan, which has custom gauges, speed tests, datalogging.

[nickelmedia]

damn....... war driving in FL? LOL ... i never thought there were any stumblers over there..

Yeah, parts of Orlando have gotten pretty techie

[nickelmedia]

Bahh keep it simple

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v98/smogtec/f1f970a1.jpg

What is it interfacing with to get those gauges?! That looks great!

[nickelmedia]

I saw a setup like this where a guy used a touch screen and old computer parts lying around. I saw this in a 350z forum called my350z.com. He had links to what screen he used to wires and stuff like that. I would do something like this and use that DataScan (http://www.plmsdevelopments.com/consult_if.htm). But I just don't like having a screen in my car, looks tacky. But if it monitors your engine vital signs then I might be up for it.

Thanks for the link! Didn't know this existed.. I'll have to wait until the SR swap though :\