thats messed up ben
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

 

depends on method and parts, between 3,500 and 6 grand.

 

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.

 

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.

 

i got a dvd console in my glove box, its preety cool

 

It's not so much a Windows problem. Any general purpose PC is far more crashy in the automotive environment...If there's anything I've learned from all the years I did the MP3Car thing, that's the most important. Also don't shock mount your computer since that's worse then just hard mounting it (took me 3 hard drives to learn that).

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Well, yeah, they harass those too, believe me. it just all depends on what part of town you're in.