Steady Progress - Ready For The May UK Meet

I finally managed to complete the Double Din conversion of my screen in the WRX kit.... it fit just right how ever as you can see by the picture it did take a little while and some messing around to get it installed in such away I was happy it would not come loose. One of the main features you can see there is that the IR & light sensors where removed so I can fit them else where in the car. To enable this to happen and give me the opportunity to remove the screen if I wish I used an RJ45 cable, soldered the appropriate bits and added a RJ45 male to male in the middle. This means its a simple process of in and out now when 'servicing'. You an see a picture of it fitted to the dash to the right here. Actually this was my 3rd attempt.... the first got damaged, the second had a hiccup when I dinged it with the drill and then got super glue on the IR lens from an Xbox so when I go here I opted for a more simple approach held together by ( wait for it ) bluetack. I'm pretty sure the local Vauxhall garage thought I was mad going back for blanks every few days plus some other bits like a sports switch which will become the reset or power on off for the CarPC. Before I got this far I just had to try a test fit.... ( tip take out the heater controls before removing the dash ) to get a feel for what it will look like and size up some other things....

While I was behind the dash, which by the way does not have much room due to having the blower behind the glove box, I had a thought. The Elite models have some thing called a 'light and sight' pack installed which in short gives auto wipers and an ambient light at night from the mirror. While changing all that will be a pain and I am happy with auto wipers for loads of reasons I like the idea of ambient light just like the BMWs have in the foot well. The great bit is just above each foot well is a solid bit of over head plastic which is easy to gain access to so when I have the time I am going to fit two normal style ( like those in a glove box or boot ) lights with a low watt bulb which come on at night time. With the light coming from above near the feet it should light the foot well just nice with out a glare effect..... I'm currently trying to work on a way to do the same underneath the front seats to give the same effect to the passengers in the rear.... watch this space.

Talking of watch this space to the right hand side you can see a copy of the latest re-incarnation of the Vauxhall logo..... if I get time I'll see if I can get it on to Photoshop as I did before.

If your in the market for a few cheap bits then I am selling some of my old kit ( well I say old its not that old ) over at Digital-Car.co.uk on this thread. You do have to be a member to view it but with luck you are already ;)

Lastly a small notice - due to HP fitting motherboards to a number of laptops world wide which fail my lappy has gone to see them.... as such I've not been able to update the web site so please hang on in there as it may be a bit longer when its back as I plan a rebuild too.