Are we ever satisfied with our cars ?

Bladerider · Post by **Bladerider** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:16 pm

Oh,

And for my sins I dont smoke, do drugs or drink.

Admittedly I have been known to consume the odd pie though !!!

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:19 pm

Dave-GTO wrote:. Hopefully have it done by end of November, but as i know sod all about pc's it maybe a bit longer :?
Dave

PM Danielle on here Dave. She and I looked into this commercially a while ago when I had an interest in a car audio business, she had/has one in her car at the moment :thumb:

Bladerider · Post by **Bladerider** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:26 pm

Dave-GTO wrote:The amount of times I say thats it Im not spending anymore money on a car I'll see something and have to have it :roll:

I'm now in the process of accumulating the bits and pieces to install a full pc in the car, running xp,sat nav,dvd,mp3,the Mitsubishi datalogging software and anything else i can. Hopefully have it done by end of November, but as i know sod all about pc's it maybe a bit longer :?

Dave

Will you need to pass a HGV licence when all thats fitted in a GTO then ???

Only joking !!

J.

madenglishman · Post by **madenglishman** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:58 pm

It's only natural and healthy to want more :-D :-D

I am going to keep making mine go faster until I get out and think....DAMN thats too fast :thumb: .........then I'll just spend more on it elsewhere

Dave-GTO · Post by **Dave-GTO** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:12 pm

I think I've got the gist of the wiring being an electrician, all the software is on the pc ready to go. Just waiting for the touchscreen monitor to arrive and then its ready to start the install

. The main bit i'm stewing over is the actual layout of the install in the boot of the pc, amp, sub and sub amp. :?

Dave

danielle · Post by **danielle** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:29 pm

was gonna offer a hand/chat dave but sounds like you got it covered

it depends on how you want it to look, but to give you an idea, i installed mine in my glovebox. I have a psu, harddrive and motherboard all screwed to a piece of mdf that slides into the lid quite nicely and has plenty of airflow. Of course you can install in a case that can then be shown off.

Look forward to seeing the results :P

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:58 am

Any pics of yours Danielle ?

BenTaylor · Post by **BenTaylor** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:39 am

I seem to get to the point where the car is 'nearly' finished and then just find another problem... Always seems to be one step forwards and two steps back!

One day it will be finished and I'll stop messing around with it!

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:46 am

It is always too tempting to want a little more.

When I first got the car, it was great but like J said, it takes a couple of weeks to get used to it. Then the target was 300 BHP... I would be happy with that.

Then, thhe bar moved up again and 320 bhp and similar torque were the target. Got that and now so close to 350 bhp that it would be rude not to

It would be very interesting to drive a standard car again now to see how much it has changed from standard as a point of reference.

danielle · Post by **danielle** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:16 pm

heres a pic once we had put it all together

it uses a megasquirt fuel controller so the pc is used quite a lot for tweaking that.

cars not really big power though yet so i wont bother with pics.

I can say that I never seem to finish a project, to the point where i want to move onto another one before finishing an existing project.