Ive been on a kick lately of trying to find my next big mod, and yes I know a SC (thats eventually coming and am working on it), but since I have been slowly working on some dress up pieces on the interior Ive been thinking along the lines of a system.

So I was wondering if any of you have any experience with in car computers (not the ones operating the cars). It just seems like the smarter way to go, since they can do more than just an in dash double din head unit and seem to cost the same if not a little less. Any suggestions, warnings, insight, anything?

 

Hessian posted a few pics and write up here:
http://forums.bradbarnett.net/showthread.php?t=71339
and a few more links.

 

I saw that one, was looking for other examples as well before I take the plunge.

 

I was looking at this one and it seems like a pretty sweet package...
http://store.mp3car.com/MP3Car_G4_po..._p/sdk-014.htm

 

for $2,100.00 I would hope so! that is a lot of money for a in dash unit.

 

thats not too bad for a car computer, can you piece one together with all of those features that looks that clean for much less?

 

Yeah, not a bad deal at all... I tallied up all my carputer parts and it turns out it's gonna cost me $2500. Argh... wont have that kind of cash for many months. Then again.. it will run circles around this integrated carputer. But everytime something breaks I'll be responsible for fixing it...

It's definately a good deal if you want a self contained computer with no headaches.

 

Search Mustang on MP3car.com there are a few S197 installs on there. I've started building mine and hope to complete it over the winter while the car is in hibernation.

-Deric

 

I'm working on piping in my OQO Model 01+ UMPC (removable, in the glove box) to the Shaker 500 along with a touch-screen monitor on a gooseneck. So far, using the buggy PIE FRD04-AUX input adapter I have it working OK, but I am still shopping around for a good touch-screen and mount. I even wrote some killar software as an interface to WMP.