Member Profile - Mr Cali

[Kekotic]

Sorry mate, grille looks good but that badge has got to go imo.
A silver badge will look the goods though.

Anyway stuff your grille, what about the ICPC!

[hamish_023]

x2 on badge. it's not terrible but...

Let me know if you decide to sell the grille

[Mr Cali]

Yeh, I'm in the same opinion, will give it a week and see how it goes, might take it off and put the Subaru blue oval in the middle.

[Mr Cali]

Anyway stuff your grille, what about the ICPC!

Will have to wait til the weekend, there's a fair bit of work to install if it doesn't fit under the seat, so will have to give myself enough time to do it.

[hamish_023]

I have a chrome GT badge (from a legacy GT if you want it for the grille...)

[Lib 3.0LR]

It seems that my old grill is going around, Phil nowTai ,looks good Tai
Cheers George

[Mr Cali]

ooh nice, I think that would go perfect!!

Let me know what you want for it and bank details etc

[hamish_023]

Don't worry about paying, ill send it to ya after uni finished in a week or so...

[Mr Cali]

Thanks buddy PM sent.

George, it's certainly a small world, looks like I have a slut of a grill lol

[Lib 3.0LR]

Thanks buddy PM sent.

George, it's certainly a small world, looks like I have a slut of a grill lol

That you do, it looks good though
Just looking in getting the Lilliput monitor off ebay next few days, the link you sent me.

[Arith]

+1 on making that red badge disappear. Sorry. If you had a consistent red trim theme throughout the car it might go, but that sudden appearance of red in that location for that accessory just doesn't make it flow. Stick with chrome.

[Mr Cali]

Badge is gone, it started to annoy me lol. Needs something there though.

OK so spent a few hours installing the PC, everything works, Was very nervous when connecting the power wire to the battery

I also ended up installing a powered USB hub in the glove box, should be handy to connect things up on the go.

Very happy with it, unfortunately I didn't take many pics along the way, but the ones I did I will post up tomorrow.

Also sinve it's the first time I have connected it to the car, I haven't configure the dash command software yet.

For now here is a vid, sorry about the quality, it was pretty much dark by the time I took it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7dNeuMET_o

[Kekotic]

Tai that is FUCKING AWESOME!

God damnit if I didn't have so many other parts to buy right now I would get that straight away.
Looking forward to some install pics, and also enjoy your new status as the in car PC guru, expect many questions from a lot of people in the near future

Anyways once again, top work!

[Lib 3.0LR]

Looks good Tai, well done I have started to get all the bites, to try this also with your help
Cheers George

[Mr Cali]

Thanks guys

Spent a few hours in the car with the kids today so it had a bit of a work out. A couple of minor bugs, but nothing too hard to fix.

1. The power / reset button on the PC case can be accidently hit if your kid is in the back pushing on the floor mats lol. I will relocate the button away from the case.
2. Need to set the screen to never sleep, or else when watching a movie, the screen will switch off, very annoying

Here are some pics of the install as promised.

This was the mess my car was in whilst doing the install, it actually got a lot worse but I didn't take a pic.


Subaru conveniently put an indent under the drivers seat just for the Car PC


I'm a bit lazy and didn't want to unbolt the seat, so as you can see I ran a coat hanger to pull the wires under the carpet, worked well.


Here is where the computer now resides, it is fixed in place with velcro for easy removal.
The floor mat actually hides most of the wires, and with the drivers seat positioned to my driving position you can't see it at all.
Ran a 12g power cable from the battery through the front guard and in through the kick panel with a fuse just after the battery.


I also installed a USB hub in the glove box for handy access.


This is to show some of the wiring behind the deck. I have retained the power plugs for the screen and the USB hub and hard wired them in.
Reason being is that they have voltage stabilizers built into them.


And sorry for this photo, I took one last night just before it got dark and haven't had a chance to take another. So it will have to do for now.