VY Calais LS1 w/Blue Dash + 8" Touch Screen

[VYCalais]

Name: Rowan
Model: '03 VY Calais
Colour: Turbine
Bodykit: Standard, w/VY Clubsport Spoiler
Engine Type: 5.7 Litre LS1 V8
Engine Mods: Stock
Gearbox: Auto
Suspension: Pedders Sports Ryder at all 4's
Wheels/Tyres: 18" Monaro SV8Z's (still gotta take pics)
Interior: Anthricate Leather
Other Mods: 8" Xenarc Touch Screen connected to Mini-ITX PC (Pentium M 760, 1Gb DDR2 Ram, 250Gb SATA Drive, Audigy 4), Blue Dash LED's (plus everything else that was green, including window buttons, gear shift indicators, ring around key entry, light selectors, sunroof controlls.. etc,etc - kit from Phreddy, self installed), + GPS/WLAN/GSM Antenna which is used for GPS (obviously), Wireless LAN (transferring songs, movies, etc), and the GSM for the Gizmo GSM Controller (sms's when alarm activated, etc).
Stereo: All Alpine R Series stuff, 2x12" Subs, 2x(sets of)6" Splits, 2xAmps (1xmonoblock, 1x4chan).
Future Mods: Properly mount the PC, install the second battery+isolator, & redesign PC interface PCB and finally FINISH coding the frontend software!

*UPDATE*
Okay, so its been like forever since i've looked in this thread. Anyways, I still haven't finished what I said I wanted to like a year ago. I've redesigned the interface PCB, and still in the process of recoding the custom frontend. Stilll need to take pics of the new rims.




8" Xenarc TS w/custom surround (showing extended album/song select screen):

GPS Screen (in night mode - automatically changes skin when headlights are on):

Shot of the dash w/Blue SMLED mod:

[thegrimVPII]

man thats f**king awesome!!! very impressive stereo there - must have set you back a bit! and it does GPS, thats crazy!

[SIXAPPEAL]

HOT ride! Looks like you got the perfect car right there, everything in one package, even a sunroof!!!

Well done

[hakhawk]

mate, looks awesome, gotta love when things fit perfectly.

hey, whats the skin and front end app you're using? i love it, wouldnt mind using it in mine.

and good to see more aussies getting into the carputer scene.

[VYCalais]

Thanks guys!

hakhawk: I ended up writing my own front end as all the other FE's like Road Runner just had way too much stuff that i'd never use, and couldn't accomodate for the stuff that I really needed (such as integration with the steering wheel controls). The skin is based on a skin for RR and can be found here, I just doctored the images from lloydy's skin to suit my needs.

At the moment it plays all the usual audio file types, as well as all video types includign xvid/divx and so on. Also has integrated GPS thanks to MapMonkey. Using the steering wheel buttons I can; Change Playlist (hold Mode, press Vol+, Vol-), Change song/video, Adjust volume, Fast Foward/Rewind through song/video (Hold Next, press Vol+/Vol-), Pause (Mute button), Toggle Full Screen (Hold Mode, press Mute) and so on, so there's no way I can get distracted by the screen trying to change song or do something (theoretically :P).

At the end of the day, I probably could have used RR and just written a smaller program to take the steering wheel inputs and map them to hotkeys for RR, but I like coding so.. and I have other screens to show voltages, amp current draw (soon) and so on (in future i'd like to hook up my ODBII scanner to show other statistics), so writing it from scratch would be easier for me to implement any changes I like.

[hakhawk]

cool, any chance you could send me the skin images that you changed? im using road runner, so i can just make the changes to button positions and such. and what font is that? looks mad.

[VSrider]

Wow thate screen fits like a treat Makes for a very nice cruiser

[phatwagon]

wow that is one awesome VY u have mate!!! Im a big fan of all the computer stuff you have running there, very nice. I noticed you said your re-mounting pc how and where are you planning on mounting it?

[VYCalais]

hakhawk: Sure, i'll zip em up for ya. The font is actually called "Chintzy CPU BRK" and I got it from here. The gradient however is done using a component in the software the front end is written in.

phatwagon: At the moment the pc is literally taped to the lhs of the boot (so it won't slide around in there and disconnect itself) lol - I'm still not sure where i'm going to put it, i'd like to get rid of the spare tire and put it there but then i'm not sure if it'll still be roadworthy (do you need a spare?? :P) but most likely it'll be mounted sideways on the left or rhs of the boot space. I still need to fit another battery in there so.. Not sure yet, the boot is a work-in-progress :P

[Stiff]

good stuff there mate, my PC will be mounted in the middle fold out bit in the back seat, or if i can find my latop, the glove box!

love the blue LED's in the dash area

[hakhawk]

stiff, i got mine in my glovebox. full size hdd, via mini itx mobo, half size psu coz im too lazy to install my m1 atx dc psu. fits fine althugh no glovebox space left for anything else.

VYCalais, can you send to: t_roy01@hotmail.com for me. my registered email seems to not receive emails sometimes. i should change it to my hotmail one.

[jdmkrazy]

awsome calais mate, i like the stezza setup

[MRVNV6]

Cool touch screen and the blue dash lights look cool

[Namheul]

Where did you get the screen from? How much was it if you dont mind me asking.
What power supply are you using?

What are you writing the frontend in?

[VYCalais]

Thanks for all the comments guys!

The screen was purchased from mp3car.com, its the Xenarc 800TSV and cost $430usd. The power supply is the Opus 120watt dc-dc PSU, which cost around $100usd and has enough juice to power the screen+3.5" 250gb hdd + pentium m 760 etc,etc.

The frontend is written in Delphi

[92vp]

I like the car mate. Very classy indeed. I reckon it would look pretty nice with the spoiler gone though, just a suggestion.

[VZPLZ]

very nice mate.. got any plans for the full HSV kit???

[bEaST]

Wow thate screen fits like a treat where bouts did u get it from... thankx

[VYCalais]

92VP: Yeah a lot of people comment on the spoiler, some bad some good I think its a lot of a personal preference thing ay. I actually took it off not long ago and it just looked so weird (probably because I wasn't used to it) but I wanted it back on straight away. Just one of those things

VZPLZ: Thanks mate, Yeah that was the plan originally when I got the spoiler (was to eventually get the rest of the kit!) but I just gotta find the cash 4 it! One day perhaps!

bEaST:Info on the screen here mate, it "just" fits, there's not a mm either side of it. I didn't want to modify the surround incase it all didn't work out and I wanted to put the stock stezza back in, but I didn't have to which was good. Its actually just squeezed between the sides lol but you could never tell and its solid.

[bEaST]

thank 4 the info and 1 other question did u install it ur self

[bEaST]

do u have a link to the actual page m8

[VYCalais]

Yeah me and my brother installed everything, the only thing we didn't do was make the facia which was fabricated by a guy who works for a gary's car radio in vic. Here's a direct link to the monitor at mp3car.com

[bEaST]

yea i seen that but it dosn't look like the 1 in ur car because isn't urs black

[VYCalais]

Its that one mate, I just removed all the parts from the inside and tossed out that case. The controller board, inverter psu and usb touchscreen board are mounted horizontally behind the screen in the car (just inside anti-static packaging on foam) and the screen and touchscreen have ribbon cables which plug into the boards, if that makes any sense..

[bEaST]

Originally Posted by VYCalais

Its that one mate, I just removed all the parts from the inside and tossed out that case. The controller board, inverter psu and usb touchscreen board are mounted horizontally behind the screen in the car (just inside anti-static packaging on foam) and the screen and touchscreen have ribbon cables which plug into the boards, if that makes any sense..

yea it does wen u have 2 sec to spare could u take some more pic in the day so i can see it a bit better plz thankx

[Exec24]

nice car

my uncle was telling me to put a touch screen compter in the car i was unsure, nice work(im also putting Type R stuff)

if i may ask, what model subs do you have, and what amp is running them?

thanks exec24

[VYCalais]

I'll get on to that for you guys tomorrow (Take more pics + check model numbers of amps&subs)

[VYCalais]

Here's some brighter pics from the other night, just with the flash on:



Monoblock model: MRD-M1005
4 Chan Model: MRV-F345
Subwoofer Model: SWR-1242D
Splits Model: SPR-17LS
I'll take some pics of them & perhaps the boot area when I get around to cleaning it up a bit :P

[micah-jon]

nice job mate, just wondering how you got the steering wheel controls interfaced into the carputer?

[VZPLZ]

very nice car mate.. audio/visual system looks good ..got any pics of the subs and amps too?? and where have you got your dvd player mounted? for the screen?

[Wired VZ]

that looks awesome man, love the blue LED lighting you put in and the PC looks great. Where did you get the double DIN facia from? looks a treat..

[fireceptor]

jus love how that dash looks! thats the way it shouldve come from the factory! love that screen! im wondering too....where did you get the din face plate....loooks great! i posted up your pics on another american gto forum and they are all over it! your dash i mean! great looking car too!

[calais87]

Very Very cool Calais that you have there.

The Electronics inside a impressive.

[mango181]

any updates mate?