14" monitor in glove compartment
04-19-06, 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Karack
i could do it for him too, too bad i won't because i think it's stupid. 
i like it but you dont so you would not do it
i think just having one shipped over or buying one from one of those companies would be easier and cheaper
so ICEBLUE how much would a full conversion cost
04-19-06, 01:42 PM
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Astin Martin Lagonda... 
I have computers in all my cars. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Yep. That was the Japan only "climate control" logicon. For a while I was going to put one in my car but the I realised that since I don't have A/C it would be rather pointless...Our logicon is basically easy to hack anyway. The only variable controls are just linear pots connected as a voltage divider. Easy to hack with several "volume control" ICs on the market. I even have a schematic on my website that would probably do it...
I hate the Prius display. Of course I'm not big on the whole Prius anway. Ugly, slow and crappy mileage...
Running the car off a computer is great until it crashes. Then you have to fiddle with rebooting the thing while driving down the freeway with the heater stuck on full blast in July as the strereo gradually gets louder and louder being tuned to the most horrid boy-band channel available...
If you really want to do this, check out http://www.mp3car.com . It's all been done a million times.
I have computers in all my cars. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Originally Posted by reatrdedspleen
Im going to do it.
Its called custom made touch screen LCD. I do computer programing, engineering, repair and consulting as my buisness. I can make it, just with LOTS of time.
If i recall mazda made a digital control for the AC and heater. nothen special.
Its called custom made touch screen LCD. I do computer programing, engineering, repair and consulting as my buisness. I can make it, just with LOTS of time.
If i recall mazda made a digital control for the AC and heater. nothen special.
I just think it would be cool and defanitly unique. Lots of cars have digital displays. look at the prius. lots of older luxury cars have it. Even way back into the 80's cars had it. But, it wasnt done very well.
I want to be able to run a full standalone via a touch screen lcd. run my stereo off the LCD. bascily anything you can think of.
I want to be able to run a full standalone via a touch screen lcd. run my stereo off the LCD. bascily anything you can think of.
Running the car off a computer is great until it crashes. Then you have to fiddle with rebooting the thing while driving down the freeway with the heater stuck on full blast in July as the strereo gradually gets louder and louder being tuned to the most horrid boy-band channel available...
If you really want to do this, check out http://www.mp3car.com . It's all been done a million times.
04-19-06, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Aaron Cake
Astin Martin Lagonda...
I have computers in all my cars. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Yep. That was the Japan only "climate control" logicon. For a while I was going to put one in my car but the I realised that since I don't have A/C it would be rather pointless...Our logicon is basically easy to hack anyway. The only variable controls are just linear pots connected as a voltage divider. Easy to hack with several "volume control" ICs on the market. I even have a schematic on my website that would probably do it...
I hate the Prius display. Of course I'm not big on the whole Prius anway. Ugly, slow and crappy mileage...
Running the car off a computer is great until it crashes. Then you have to fiddle with rebooting the thing while driving down the freeway with the heater stuck on full blast in July as the strereo gradually gets louder and louder being tuned to the most horrid boy-band channel available...
If you really want to do this, check out http://www.mp3car.com . It's all been done a million times.
I have computers in all my cars. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Yep. That was the Japan only "climate control" logicon. For a while I was going to put one in my car but the I realised that since I don't have A/C it would be rather pointless...Our logicon is basically easy to hack anyway. The only variable controls are just linear pots connected as a voltage divider. Easy to hack with several "volume control" ICs on the market. I even have a schematic on my website that would probably do it...
I hate the Prius display. Of course I'm not big on the whole Prius anway. Ugly, slow and crappy mileage...
Running the car off a computer is great until it crashes. Then you have to fiddle with rebooting the thing while driving down the freeway with the heater stuck on full blast in July as the strereo gradually gets louder and louder being tuned to the most horrid boy-band channel available...
If you really want to do this, check out http://www.mp3car.com . It's all been done a million times.
Yeah, I know its been done. But, not in a FC. or at least not the way im thinking.
My computers dont crash
I know how to make windows work a little better than microsoft does.
04-19-06, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by reatrdedspleen
My computers dont crash I know how to make windows work a little better than microsoft does.
I know how to make windows work a little better than microsoft does. Also don't shock mount your computer since that's worse then just hard mounting it (took me 3 hard drives to learn that).
04-19-06, 04:44 PM
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but because its already a USDM model, wouldnt it be easy? i mean if you wanted to import a skyline or something, where there r no american models of, i can see that be regulated an problems with requirments... but an rx7... w/e i dont understant, lol i obviously dont enough on the subject...
Emissions in america is one of the hurdles
Bureacracy(sp?) is another hurdler = lots of waiting time
Approval of the state and government
Probably a driving test of some sort
Special license or some bullshit
ETC ETC ETC
America wants americans to buy AMERICAN CARS or atleast cars that are profitable to AMERICA (i.e cars that are USDM), so in a nutshell it is america's greed that keeps us from doing what we want sometimes
05-18-06, 10:44 PM
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if it was a ford or a chevy, no cop would bat an eye. It's an import, the government hates imports. You put a cone filter intake and a rice can on the back and you'll get a ticket. Atleast... out here in cali you will. RHD can be legal, but you've got to pay pay pay, and it better be stock or they'll bend you over and ram it up even further for the money money money
05-18-06, 11:53 PM
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In Illinois cops are not trained to harass J-spec motorists the "culture" is smaller out here and less connected to crime than in California. In Chicago area it is spinners and SUV's that get harassed becuse they are the ones connected to criminals.
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