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Daniel Calleja
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 06:32 pm, by:  Daniel Calleja (Calleja) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i'm thinking of cutting out this section of my back seat. This is where i was planning to make a custom compartment for a playstation 2 (which will be standing upright). My question is, what is behind the cushioning of the seat? Is it steal behind there? if so i very much doubt i will be able to cut through it, and is the fuel tank hard up against the seat?

If anybodies got any suggestions it'll be appreciated :-)
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Daniel Czechowski
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 06:39 pm, by:  Daniel Czechowski (Dan) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Take it off and have a look, only takes 2 minutes to do literally... pull up the bottom part, two clips hold it on the bottom, middle of each passenger). When you've removed the bottom part, undo the three screws that hold the back part, then pull the back up towards the roof. There are two clips on the top. Dont pull the back towards you or you'll break the clips.

I dun think there will enough space, unless you put it flat (ie. the PS2 logo showing inside the cabin) in which case how are you gonna load the disks? There is the metal panel behind the seat, that seperates the cabin from the boot and the fuel tank. If you take the seat off you'll be able to figure it out mate :-)
Daniel Czechowski
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 06:48 pm, by:  Daniel Czechowski (Dan) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Forgot to add though... why ruin a perfectly good seat? Besides, you park it in a dodgy suburb, u'd get your window smashed and PS2 stolen
Daniel Calleja
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 06:58 pm, by:  Daniel Calleja (Calleja) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

yeah good point fellas. Man that didn't take too much persuasion lol.

Has anybody seen a PS2 under a seat? how's the fit?
Daniel Calleja
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 07:00 pm, by:  Daniel Calleja (Calleja) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

by the way its the normal sized PS2.. not the slimline edition
Ben Evans
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 10:06 pm, by:  Ben Evans (Sbyder) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

if you have the electric seats, then you have no chance of getting a gen 1 ps2 under there.

Manual seats, you have a chance. If i were you, id place it in the boot where its safe. Or make up a bracket and mount it in the passenger footwell on the side of the centre consol.

my 20cents :-)

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Mark Paddick
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 06:22 am, by:  Mark Paddick (Sparks) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

How about a double DIN sized car PC that'll do anything you can on a Desktop? Including DVD, Sat/Nav and games.
Daniel Czechowski
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 11:57 am, by:  Daniel Czechowski (Dan) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Car PC, I like it!!!!! I'd only use it for MP3z and satnav though. If you have a spare old comp just buy a 12V powersupply for it and a touchscreen that has a VGA & USB connection in the back to steer the mouse (I think you get get them for around 600 bux nowadays). That would be a cool thing to put in. No more changing CDs or using those darn FM transmitters for your iPods
Mark Paddick
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Shane Ilich
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 03:12 pm, by:  Shane Ilich (Ferret) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Mark Paddick wrote on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 06:22 am:

How about a double DIN sized car PC that'll do anything you can on a Desktop? Including DVD, Sat/Nav and games.




more info please???
Mark Paddick
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 04:54 pm, by:  Mark Paddick (Sparks) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sorry...not available...yet.
But the bottom line for something like the pic is ~$2k
Tom Kneebone
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 08:36 pm, by:  Tom Kneebone (Tomk) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Whilst getting my diff fixed, I put in a 7" touchscreen , docking station in the boot, usb in the console, works, just needs refinements. the touchscreen is also a TV receiver and has 2 aux inputs and the PC interface. Audio is through a pre out to a panasonic cq-c8400w with 12" sub in the shelf and as far as I know stock speakers. Never was fussed about the TV side until the power went out for 3-4 hrs one night and something I wanted to see was on. Worked a treat

The uses for a car pc are many beside music , for instance usb camera's for parking or reversing, much cheaper and multiple instances.
Mark Paddick
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 10:56 pm, by:  Mark Paddick (Sparks) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://soarercentral.com/sc-forum/messages/441/46640.html?1140297394
Tom Kneebone
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 11:47 pm, by:  Tom Kneebone (Tomk) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Interesting enough, but when I upgrade my laptop, my car pc gets upgraded and I have the choice of linux also as the touch screen has linux drivers.
Mark Paddick
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So do some of the one's that are being considered. Widows XP Pro, CE, Linux and some other media specific versions are all options.
Tom Kneebone
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Friday, March 03, 2006 - 10:37 am, by:  Tom Kneebone (Tomk) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Fairy nuff, but the main reason I went my way beside cost (scored 2 laptops ) is hardware upgrades and compatibility for any experimentation I may do down the (if I get time)
having 2 identical laptops one with XP Pro and the other with centos 4.2 allows me to play with both via the docking station.
An OS conversion becomes simple just like a manual conversion, I get out of the wife's TT into mine
Tim Spicer
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Friday, March 03, 2006 - 10:45 am, by:  Tim Spicer (Spicer) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


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this one works for me...
you could run your ps2 if you want, No hard drive but with dvd 4 odd GB of mp3's is still a lot...
but yeah i know you still have to carry around one of those pain in the ass cd holders
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Friday, March 03, 2006 - 06:30 pm, by:  Mark Paddick (Sparks) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You certainly CAN get that sort of thing, HKS make a system that will work with any video screen. There are probably others.
Whether or not the one above does I don't know.
Morgan Cross
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Friday, March 03, 2006 - 11:18 pm, by:  Morgan Cross (Morgan) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That Pioneer headunit is pretty crappy.

A mate just got that ($3000 RRP!) in his Commodore (Read: WTF?) and it's annoying, apparently his maximum power is 80kw and 244nm torque?

Stupid POS thing. No need for it when the Soarer already has the elec-styled display as standard. No need for excessive bling :P
Mark Paddick
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Tell us what you really think Morgan
Daniel Czechowski
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 12:28 pm, by:  Daniel Czechowski (Dan) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Morgan Cross wrote on Friday, March 03, 2006 - 11:18 pm:

A mate just got that ($3000 RRP!) in his Commodore (Read: WTF?) and it's annoying, apparently his maximum power is 80kw and 244nm torque?




Are you surprised? Isn't that how much power a Commodore has at the rear wheels anyway? It's like with a Soarer, 206 kW at the flywheel and 150 at the rear wheels. Makes sense commy's only got 80, if it has around 150 at the flywheel.

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