tinvestor

Well I decided to run the Aircon system and I needed a place to control it from so I searched forever to find this, it was at MP3 car, decent price nice specs and it fits well in the space.

First I took pics of everything
then cut into the visor
measured it up, cut and formed the bracket
measured for the mounting holes and drilled them out
went to ACE to get the mounting hardware that fit in the holes on the back and bottom of the monitor

Now it is off to upholstry to match the headliner.

classicauto

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Juiceh

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Damn, thats gonna looks sick when you get it back from the upholstery shop!

jkimbro

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Is it going to be too heavy to flip up when you want it outta the way?

tinvestor

I have to work on the weight issue a little but it will be fine.

jkimbro

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It'd be a small issue, just one that you may forget about until it keeps dropping down in front of your face when you hit a bump.

Icemark

Exactly the same thing I was thinking.

I used to have a small Alpine remote EQ control panel in there, that was 1/4 of the size of that panel, and it kept falling down all the time.

Gonna need a whole spring assembly to keep that bugger up.

And you sure hacked up the visor cloth... what's up with that????

tinvestor

headliner was redone in black vinyl so I am having the upholstry guy match it

staticguitar313

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coool projects, wanna do my Targa FC next? ^_^

tinvestor

want to register my completely illegal car in AZ at your adress?
I need the tint and to be able to tell the cops that "its legal in AZ"

By the way love the targa did you do it?

Alright third and final edit. You drop off the car and your checkbook and I will have her done in a couple years

tinvestor

OK here is the "floppy sunvisor" fix.

This will work on any floppy sunvisor however the upholstry will need reworking.

To do this you will need a bolt and a nylon nut or a regular nut and a nylon lock washer use 10/24 or slightly smaller
you will also need a drill and a bit of apropriate size according to the bolt size you choose

after you uncover the framework you will see a black piece of spring steel wrapped around the upper part of the frame a little less than midway from the right. Shown in the first pic with the hole already drilled in it. after you find it and drill a hole near the bottom of it big enough to fit the chosen hardware, I used 10/24 but you can go smaller if you want but no bigger than that. I used a long bolt that I will trim down after I post. once you drill it and put the hardware on tighten the assembly to the desired stiffness. This is very sensitive a 1/4 from contact is almost too much you may also want to use locktite to keep it from getting lose.

Dltreezan

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so how did you wire up the logicon with a touch pad. I really want to do that with my car.

86TwinTurbo

I had a friend that did that in his supra, he installed a motor like thing that u push a button and it turns however much u set it for and then push it again and stops where u put the stop, forgot what it was called but i could find out...works like some cd players where u push a button and it like "rolls" down and stops on the stop but also has a reverse that winds back up

88rxn/a

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damn man you carazzzyyy...looks real good!! pics after it gets finished and installed!

tinvestor

Definately, will be done next week sometime

The aircon must be wired through the carputer then you just bring it up like a program

beamer242

i think its an interesting idea.... i like it alot. i might do it, but i wont put it in the visor cuz i have a vert and that wouldnt work for me. if you have a chance and want to do a write up on the wiring for the aircon touch screen that would be cool. and to all the haters..... you are just mad you cant come up with cool ideas. its call new and different.

Brian

Gene

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I'd be less worried about the extra weight flopping it down all the time, and more worried about it coming loose in an accident and adding air conditioning to your skull.

Insanity7

The Lord put Velcro on this Earth for this exact reason!

Wankel7

Wait, you are going to be able to control your HVAC stuff on that thing...omg sex!

EricRyan

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Yeah, never underestimate the power of velcro.

tinvestor

Ever bash your face on a sunvisor. It HURTS!! It is heavy gauge wire frame and broke my buddys glasses and nose ( I wasnt driving by the way). However if you are wearing a seatbelt you cant hit it (at least not at my height). But if you mean it actually coming off? That CANT happen the mounting frame wraps around the visor frame and then is secured in three places onto the monitor all screws have loctite also. It could eventually losen up but as for catastrophic failure, not possible.


Insanity7 Quote:
Originally Posted by tinvestor
I have to work on the weight issue a little but it will be fine.



The Lord put Velcro on this Earth for this exact reason!
EricRyan Yeah, never underestimate the power of velcro.

OMG!!! VELCRO!!! Bite your tounge (it crossed my mind, but only on a motivational level) This car has way too much into it to use velcro anywhere other than on the rear carpet in the stock velcro use locations.

Anyway I fixed it as you can see above.


Wankel7 Wait, you are going to be able to control your HVAC stuff on that thing...omg sex!

HELL YEAH!!

beamer242 i think its an interesting idea.... i like it alot. i might do it, but i wont put it in the visor cuz i have a vert and that wouldnt work for me. if you have a chance and want to do a write up on the wiring for the aircon touch screen that would be cool. and to all the haters..... you are just mad you cant come up with cool ideas. its call new and different.

Brian


As far as the wiring goes it is pretty much as follows:
run the output wire (some type of paralell port on the control unit) to the Carputer then run the second (or third in this case) monitor output to the touchscreen all of this is done with standard computer connectors.

Digi7ech

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The mounting to the roof for the visor is pretty old and weak plastic.

I'd say try and rethink the anchor system. At the same time you could also design somethign to help keep it stationary.

Now a quick and ghetto approach woudl be to use a ball socket with the screw in the side.
You see them on Camera tripods and stuff.
A small screw by finger tightening into the side of the ball increases pressure and prevents it from moving.

The ghetto part woudl be that you would have to unscrew it a bit each time you wanted to open it but it's a guaranteed way to keep it up while driving.

tinvestor

It is fixed already. Believe me it is so tight that it takes two hands to rotate it down. The problem is not the ball ( the ball moves smoothly). I am making an adapter flange that goes between the plastic ball receiver and the body to change the angle so that when the visor is up the the ball is all the way down to remove any possibility of the ball causing any slop. At this point there is no more problem. The plastic on this car is in exceptionally good shape and I have no fear of breaking it at this point.

hondahater

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I think that is freakin' sweet! but I think if I had the money I would put a touch screen in the glove box door. To me it seems easier to reach than on the vissor but I could be mistaken. Good job with that car man it's going to be insane!

tinvestor

Thanks, the 14" monitor in the GC gets in the way of that plan. I couldnt find a nice big touchscreen that would fit or I would have just run it that way and left the visor out of the plan.