This is pretty interesting. The big win for me is the fact that you've kept your nav and sirius working, but added great stuff like onboard logging and display.

How did you keep nav and sirius working? Did you reuse the existing antennas or purchase new ones? What programs?

Thanks

 

Hey Supreme I was just wondering if there was any additions you made to your system or how your wife's Outlander turned out?

 

I'm installing my F90 on Tuesday! I'd love to try and get EvoScan running! Unfortunately, I have zero experience with either CE or EvoScan...if someone can help walk me through what I've got to do, I'm more than willing to be the guinea pig for this.

 

This is so awesome!!! Especially since you could get wireless broadband, hook it up, and be able to stream internet radio from the car. THAT would be awesome. On top of that, the capabilities of using bluetooth A2DP to stream to the radio, or to have WiFi and be able to transfer stuff to the carputer when at home.

*drool*

 

lol, I'm glad I bumped this thread back up! As soon as I got my car I was thinking, screw this 6 disc changer I want my whole collection of music. and movies. and handsfree bluetooth. and wifi. and nav. and, and, and...that pretty much equals a carPC!

 

My idea where i will mount space navigator:

 

Looks great! My roomate just got done doing a setup like this in his car...makes me want to do one now as well

 

Ive been looking into carputers for sometime.. Not much intrest on em in the club4g forums. Anyways got a couple questions.

1. Is sound quality great just like having a normal headunit?.
2. Keyboard and mouse/touchpad needed?
3. How is reliability?

 

wow that is very impressive =D, nice job

 

My system is done and we decided on going with a Pioneer F90 for my wife. She really wanted the F90. We finished up building a fiberglass box for my wife's SUV.

Only updates I have done to the system is upgraded OS to Vista, added the Zeitronix ZT-2 wideband w/ MAP sensor and installed ECUFlash and PCMScan. Oh, and don't listen to an MP3 on a SSD hard drive when you are syncing music over the network. Those hard drives don't like to do more than one hard drive intensive item at once. Music starts skipping. But I only had to do that during the initial sync. After that I don't even notice it.

On my wife's F90, I was able to get EVOScan to work on it. It doesn't matter too much since it is an Outlander, but I wanted to see if I could get it to work on the Pioneer unit,

 

Sound quality is better than a high end unit (just use a good sound card with good DACs). In my old eclipse, I had a pioneer P980BT and this setup sounds better.

No keyboard or mouse needed after you install windows. Screen is a touchscreen so that is my mouse control.

If you build one, use a SSD hard drive and a good automotive grade power supply. The first one I built used a regular laptop hard drive, and it was fine until I was about 80 mph and hit a bump on the interstate. Hard drive skipped and corrupted the install. Learned my lesson then.

 

That's great news! Please let me know what you had to do to get it to run. My F90 is getting installed as I type this. I heard EVOScan isn't out yet for the X, but it won't be long!

 

if you look on AVIC411.com they have directions on how to run your own software on these units.

 

Well, thanks for the updates Supreme, I appreciate it. As previously stated, when I'm ready I'll PM you for a price on my very own build

 

great stuff Supreme. I'm building a carputer into my STi currently. my next car will most likely be an X. what are the dimensions of the scosche dash kit? i am trying to decide on a lcd screen and i would like to get one that fits the evo and i can make it work for the subaru in the meantime. have you seen that bybyte kit that works with the lilliputs? i'm wondering if i should go for that or maybe fork out the extra money for the wrx specific mechatroniks kit. all other parts are ordered and i have been painfully installing software and playing with settings