*MAXXD* Pyro's Subaru Impreza Bugeye

[Pyrotechnic]

Looks like I've neglected this thread a little...

Anyway, ages ago this arrived:


It's a stainless steel un-equal length manifold, like the turbo'ed Imprezas have, so it sounds like one now

So it was (eventually) off with the old equal length one:


Took about 2 days of WD-40 and straining/swearing/hitting with hammers and:


But it went on in the end:


It was worth it though, definitely worth it ;]

Few of you might have seen on FB the other week that it went for it's MOT, and failed due to the exhaust being too loud (sorry, not 'too loud' the technicality was that it was significantly louder than that of a similar, standard exhaust system) so it went back the next day with the bung in and it passed ;]

I got to sample this beasty though:


And now onto the latest project.

Not content with spending all day at work infront of a PC, and all evening/weekend at home infront of a PC, I'm putting one in the Scoobatron too



Complete with a 7" touchscreen monitor that will eventually get fab'ed into the dash:


And the inside if anyone's interested (for size, that motherboard is 17cmx17cm but it's still a 1.6GHz dual core, so it's more than fast enough):


Basically at the moment it'll play music (whole music library on the HDD) and play movies, it's also got WiFi so I can browse the web (where there's a connection) and it'll replace my TomTom for navigation. Though to be honest, it's just a normal PC but smaller, so it'll do anything normal computer will do really.

The plan is though to make it much more than just a fancy headunit:

It'll interface with the ODBII port to get vehicle stats, meaning I can spot and diagnose problems sooner.

It'll also let me have digital gauges (like the Nissan GT-R (sad I know, but epically cool too ;] )).

I can implement some sort of voice control to interface with everything.

And eventually code some kind of pseudo AI into it. Now, were not talking KITT here (although I'd be lying if I said the thought of getting a turbo bonnet with a vent and putting the red running light from KITT in it hadn't crossed my mind...), but simple things like, say you've got 50 miles worth of fuel left, and there's a garage in the next 15 miles. Chances are you're not going to stop. But the system might know that the next garage after that is 55 miles away, and you won't make it, so it'll tell you and suggest you stop.

There're also various USB interface boards you can get to interact with the electronics of the car. eg; it'll turn your lights on when it gets dark if you forget (which I'm bad for) or put the windows up when you go over a certain speed.

There's loads of other ideas batting around in my head too...

Oh, and since it'll be placing the current headunit, it looks like I'll be needing some subs and amps too, damn...