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Ok ao here is a little update i managed to finally get all the features running so we now have full OBD access

So here is the new Carnetix loom Made up and measurement made on where to run the cables as with 90% of my work i braided the cables and heat shrunk the ends Here is the new pc Location there is a gap under neath here which was ideal to store the PSU and any other ancillary items in so with that in place time to mount the camera So onto the checklist Rear Camera - DOne Sat Nav -Done AUX input on headunit - Done OBD Reader - Outstanding Fit New screen in cubby hole -Done Power New screen of same psu as PC - Done Automatic switching of rear Camera -Done Sort out poor audio quality - Done So with the above list 99% completed here is the finished article NOw the screen Now for a few videos

OK so let the fun begin So i have started on the CAR PC Spec as follows Acer Aspire Revo Carnetix P1900 LIlliput 7" Screen Logitiec Mini Keyboard/Joypad Joycon EX Rear Camera OBD Reader C200 Video Camera Input Onto the fitting the standard housing that comes in the non nav modules doesn't allow enough space to fit a screen in the cubby as you can see below So i had to order a different unit once order it was time to get on with the fitting of the screen, no real pics of this as it kinda just fits in and gets glued in place.... but once fitted allows it to look like this So with the screen in place it was time to modify the computer to work with the PSU In order for it to work we have to make an additional switch input on the main board So computer before Computer with its top off Locate power switch board this is top left of the computer case Once removed it looks like this the contacts themselves are just a standard short to make connection effectively a normally open shorted to normally closed once connected to i then ran a cable through the case onto a connection on the rear. that's as far as i got tonight but here are the finished pics today the screen is being blurred out by my down lighter in the front room doesn't look like this when in natural light Rabs

ok so the mods have started today i finally fitted the factory blue tooth module once i made sure this all worked i then cleaned the whole car and polished it including the Nismo exhaust, sealed the alloys with alloy wheel sealer and then treated the tires with meguiers tyre dressing.... once i had finished playing with the outside 5hours later lol i decided to start with the car PC front 1st up modify the Bose system to have an AUX input fairly easy to do i didnt take any pics but will copy form elsewhere to show how i did it..... car pc so far comprises off Liliput 619gl touchscreen Acer Aspire Revo Wireless keyboard and mouse OBD Reader Video input Reverse Camera Sat Nav Centrafuse 3.5 Joycon ex Controller (more to come on this later) Relay board isnt on order yet got to work out what ill use it for...... kinda thinking the following Relay 1 - Pace Car strobes Relay 2 - Drivers heated seat Relay 3 - Passenger Heated seat Relay 5 - Front grill Lights Relay 6 - Front Camera Relay 7 - Relay 8 -

Ok so as you all know i sold much loved lexus in favour of a new challenge, i had only been hunting for about 3- 4weeks and kept coming back to the same car the baby is a 2005 (05 plate) limited edition Nissan 350Z GT4 number 112/176 The car has covered 34,500 miles and has full service history. During the winter the car has been sorn and stored away. The GT4 model was a limited run of 176 cars (100 in kuro black and 76 in ultra yellow). It has the more powerful rev up engine and also limited edition GT4 18†alloy wheels. It has the GT pack which includes full leather interior, heated electric seats, upgraded Bose stereo and cruise control. The car is Immaculate both inside and out. It has received a full detail by hand every 3 months and is washed and waxed on a weekly basis using high quality products. The alloys are in brand new condition having been replaced by Nissan in 2010 under warranty due to some slight corrosion. The new alloys have been waxed and sealed to prevent this from occurring again. The car runs on Falken 452 tyres all round, the rears were replaced in 2010 In terms of modifications, The car has a Nismo aero kit which was professionally fitted. The aero kit consists of a Nismo V2 front bumper with carbon lip, Nismo side skirts and rear spats and a carbon Nismo rear spoiler. Also fitted is a Mastergrade carbon roof carbon Nismo B-pillars, carbon wing mirror covers, MYO6 LED rear lights, JWT cold air intake, plenum spacer Ferodo DS2500 brake pads. Eibach wheel spacers all round Lowered on Eibach pro lowering springs Also fitted to the car is the much rare and sought after Nismo exhaust system. This is a full, 3 piece stainless cat back system which sounds absolutely stunning. so without further adoo here she is Stay Tuned for future work.......

cheers tony its been a long process and she is still not ready yet....

Scarlatti Red Is200 sport With Full Factory Body kit (bumper and kit re-sprayed in 2007) Colour Coded Sport Grill Suspension and Wheels TTE Anti Roll Bars TTE Coil over’s 45mm 19" vermiri Wheels Engine/Turbo Bigger intercooler Uprated Earthing kit HKS Camp 2 Boost sensor OIL Temp Sensor EGT Sensor OBD Reading IKE engineering Turbo Manifold Ike Engineering Down Pipe 3†IKE Engineering Centre Pipe AEM FIC (fuel and Ignition Controller) 550cc Injectors Supra Fuel Pump Stainless stel fuel Lines with Aeroquip fittings GT30 Roller bearing Turbo Tial Waste gate 50mm 100mm Custom Induction with Apexi Filter Custom Intercooler Piping 60mm UPrated Helix Clutch Apexi Back Box Iridium 7 Spark Plugs Standard Fuel Regulator Cosmetic Inside / Outside blue Silicone Hoses Red Cable Tubing Painted Callipers Stainless Steel Radiator Panel Stainless Steel Suspension Tops Relocated Front Horns Stainless Steel Aircon Rings Smoked Rear Lights Arches Rolled Stainless Steel Lexus badge Stainless steel Kanji badge Lighting Internal/External 6000k HID Dipped Beam 6400k Main Beam 8000k Fog lights LED Eye brow Side lights PACE car strobes Intercooler Lights Blue foot well Lights Blue Ignition Ring Fog to Brake Conversion In Car Toys Reverse Camera Reverse Dip mirror Front mounted camera Custom Dash Pc system (full Touchscreen) 7" touch screen in Nav Housing (HKS Camp 2) Auto Window roll up on arming One Touch on all Windows Clifford Avant Guard 5.5 Clifford Call Guard Push Start Ignition Blue Instrument Cluster remote start Leather Arm rest Full Leather Interior Custom Touchscreen Radio system HD radio Carnetix PSU2410 Acer Aspire Revo Car Pc/sat Nav USb Video Input Proximity lock/unlock

Here we go i picked up a Push button and proximity entrance kit there will be a group buy for the complete system or parts of it OK so we start of with the System i removed all the wires that i didnt need from the proximity circuit that left me with a total of 7 Cables to terminate as shown below i then moved on to narrowing these down for install purpose due to the fcat i have a after-market alarm on the car it makes it interesting to install. With a after-market alarm i need to be able to activate and de active the alarm in doing so this will unlock the doors and turn off the immobiliser. so my way of doing this was to mimic the operation of the lock and unlock on a G5 remote i disabled all other buttons PERMANENTLY and here is the result of that so once i had tested this by shorting the 2 wires together the car locked and unlocked accordingly. now with this in mind i worked out the best way to take the lock and unlock signals from the proximity unit and have them bboth trigger the clifford alarm. THis was done by taking a relay adding 2 diodes to one side of the coil then the lock wire went to one diode the Unlock wire went to the other give a constant 12v to the other side of the coil on the relay. in doing this it stopped the circuit getting any feedback into the main Brain whilst allowing both Lock and unlock to trigger the same switch. i then made this a little neater and dressed the cables so now onto the fitting of the unit Rear mounted antenna position Front mounted antenna Position I also put the by pass unit in here as well so everything is nice and hidden i ran the cables from the front to the rear of the car under the carpet as shown here Once all the cables were routed through it was time to connect up all the connections you need are located by the steering column Constant 12v (red) 18AWG ACC 12v (Small Red) 18AWG Ground (Black) 22AWG to trigger the lock and unlock Lock (Green) 18AWG unlock (Blue) 18AWG

OK well this is following on from the group buy here As discussed a lot of you would like to see this system in the flesh and know how easy it is to install, so i went ahead and got 2 kits, to be experimented on 2 different types of set ups So here is the good news they are here in my flat ready to rock and roll If i get a chance this weekend i will get the push start part of the system installed so you can all see that running the proximity bit needs a bit of research as i have an after market alarm. If i can however Fit this into mine then all those with After market alarms on any vehicle will be able to do the same. I will do a full write up and picture install thread on this kit once it has been evaluated.

ok so we now have another section of my project completed see details below, there are not alot of pictures of the production stage but mainly the finished article. so anyway 1st things 1st i had to but another screen, after having a liliput screen in my nav housing which seemed to perform wonderfully i hunted for the smae model again. liliput 619gl i then attacked this to make it fit inside the standard IS200 Fascia adaptor alot of you are familiar with The walk through HERE the same principal applies except i cut the existing screen housing apart to make it fit inside the hole i then used Hurricane & plastic filler to smooth it all followed by primer and paint So yeah umm here is the finished article in the car shortly after this i took the pc back out the car to do some work mainly software based but as its been slow due to weather lately Main thing was to: - install a Relay board Driver Windows Updates Adjust PSU boot times etc (carnetix PSU2410) adjusted by pc software Customize background of software attempt to fix satnav problem... well out of all the above the Sat nav is still outstanding, don't think that's to bad considering lol Lets start with the background this is done via a Hack in centrafuse once installed you can place pictures into the images directory and either have them rotate through each time it boost or lock it to a image. i chose a pic of my car which has been customized So here is before pic after so with this installed i then moved onto the Realy board, the whole reason for this is im running out of places to install switches lol , this particular board runs on USB with a 12v input and can switch 12v via relays so i have assigned 4 circuits to start with Circuit 1 - Inter cooler Circuit 2 - Strobe Lights Circuit 3 - Front Camera Circuit 4 - Audio Amps. the software has been developed to work as a hack so once installed will automaticly install the relevant task area and buttons on the Centrafuse front End Labelled up circuits ok only 2 labelled but you get the idea here is the board in test status on my Living room floor as you can see LED2 is illuminated this means that the Relay is now in the Normally open position closing the circuit thus giving me a 12v output on that switch when you press a button on the touch screen the button illuminates green to indicate its operation the board can be set with 2 system syetem one to allow toggle press (so it flashes the output upon being pressed non latching) or System two Latched output (a single press on the circuit will latch the output and stays latched until pressed again) Hope you like what you see Rabs

My Update Well as some of you will have seen i sold my supercharger and a few other bits from beloved car this was to fund a new project. As i am sure some of you have seen now Bandit has got his old car back this is because i bought the car for the turbo kit that was on there and did chris a deal for his old car to which he has started a new thread :thumbup::thumbup::w00t::w00t: So to sum up i have a turbo kit fitted to my car producing 282bhp So parts on the car are Big intercooler IKE engineering Turbo Manifold Ike Enginering Down Pipe 3†IKE Engineering Centre Pipe AEM FIC (fuel and Ignition Controller) 550cc Injectors Supra Fuel Pump Stainless stel fuel Lines with Aeroquip fittings GT30 Roller bearing Turbo Tial Waste gate 50mm 100mm Custom Induction with Apexi Filter Custom Intercooler Piping 60mm UPrated Helix Clutch Apexi Back Box Iridium 7 Spark Plugs Standard Fuel Regulator

Also spent the weekend washing and detailing mine and a mates car

As you read above I had temporary car PC using my sony Vaio so now is time for a proper job One pc One GRS Receiver One Cd Player One OBD2 Reader One Ipod One AV Input The pc uses a program Called Centrafuse here is the front end You will have also read a bit further back in this thread about my arches being rolled well that was in preparation for the new wheels so we went from these To These

Now make the circuit to control the car Circuit mk 1 Circuit Mk2 So now we have the Switch In the console and we have the circuit so time to join the 2 I don’t really agree with taping cables if it’s a install so I use heatshrink and braid Here is the finished article Security system active As you see the car wont start

Since then I have also fitted TTE Coilovers and TTE ARBS but no pics of these im afraid as the weather was a bit dodgy once fitted I took the car to Wheels In Motion and Dr Bones did a full Geo set up car handles perfectly now and no inner tire wear yippee whilst it was there I also got the arches rolled so I can now fit a Nice set of 18's on or 19s if I really wanted but then it might sit a tad to low in the wheel arch will have to see.... So this now sees up until about December 09 I now started to feel the car was lacking some bling!! So I invested in the following Stainless Steel Radiator Panel Stainless Steel Suspension Tops TTE Supercharger Badges Chrome Lexus Steering wheel Badge is shown above Now I have done some cosmetic things back to the fun stuff LED Dash Lights. Now lets take something from a late spec car and make it work in mine… PUSH START BABY… Take one standard centre section Beat it with a dremel Test Fit switch

I was happy until I tried driving and looking at the gauges then realised they were to low down so time for a rethink Now the is200 comes in a navigator model as well but the sat nav is out of the arc luckily I didn’t have it in mine I so I thought why I don’t put a touch screen in the standard housing so I got to work Part a Part b Take them all apart have a juggle with the wiring and you get So on to Fitting in the car Here we have it working Did I mention it was toucscreen so I also have an INCAR pc well my laptop in the glove box at meets lol!!!

Whilst the bumper was off I fitted some LED's to the grill to light the intercooler at some of our car meets (only at meets) Whilst in the process I changed my side lights to LED sidelight strips I also Fitted 6400k HID I did wire these in non standard they basicly take a trigger from the normal light circuit to activate a relay which draws power direct from the battery this = no dips when cranking. You can buy these relay kits buy my thoughts why buy when you can make!! So now that I had the bigger cooler the bigger exhaust I then realised I had no way of telling what it was doing pressure wise etc, now most people have gauges on the A pillar in the Is200 or then have them mounted in the centre console. Now me being me wanted to be different I wanted the best of both worlds gauges in the middle but stealthy, so I hunted until I came across the HKS Camp 2 System very cool It arrived like this Doesn’t look like much but a pain to wire in but how wrong was I… So all working and here is the kiddy

I then had an accident when parking and kerbed the passenger Rear wheel not happy, then had a brain wave my mates BMW had reverse dip mirrors I wonder if I can get that on mine of course Lexus were no help so off I went and found my own way So here we have a box of tricks Universal as long as they have the up down function lol Fitting was not easy Now as you read above I fitted a rear camera so why not a front one I thought so I did By this time I was starting to run out of little things to do, so had a long hard think and realised a bigger intercooler was needed This big As you can see the standard TTE one is the baby thing underneath

Then for a little bit of time I didn’t do anything was not to well etc JAE came and went where we fitted a supercharger to a friend’s car made me want 1 like crazy, so 2k later I had one Standard engine bay Full engine Bay Car didn’t seem to have enough noise and grunt so I upgraded the filter to a K&N and gave it a full on service and it found its balls once again But there was something holding it back……………………… ahh yes the exhaust plain standard nothing special so a friend sold me his Blue flame it arrived like this Went on the car like this So old exhaust off New exhaust Ready NO expense spared even on the bubble wrap lol

then I noticed that only the drivers window had 1 touch I couldn’t be doing with this time for total closure and one touch system I had a few DEI 530 box's left over from a few previous cars so these were redesigned and put to use however Lexus wiring is a pain so had to put wires into each door LONG so anyway these box's also offering a venting system via a remote or button in the car etc very good in hot weather... This now gets us to a few more bits of fun we all hate little bollards when parking or finding some one has got right up close behind the car so I thought its time for a rear view camera but stealthy I then needed some new tyres so whilst the wheels were off the car and it was jacked up (thought id get them refurbed at the same time I painted the callipers So from this To this Spare wheel was dirty im ashamed to say lol

Hey everyone thought I would share my car with everyone else see what people think Ok here is the progress so far, I got the car in late 06 and said that I would not touch it I liked it just the way it was I mean it was the IS200 Sport in Scarlatti red with the Lexus styling kit standard Lexus alloys premium sound system etc. Alas this didn’t last long 1st thing I had to change the radio so after much hunting around I chose the Kenwood DDX-6029 and got to fitting as some of you might know the sport comes with its own amp and runs a digital system in the car so no left and right feed to the amp but digital signals very annoying So after much playing about I made a bypass lead (there wasn’t one on the market when I got the car but there is now ) However I missed the bass that I had in my old car so out came the standard speakers and Infinity's went in along with an Alpine V12 and Lanzer Vibe Amp As you can guess it didn’t stop there, I found my self addicted to putting bits on, so the fun and games started Mirror closing module was created and fitted Then Hands free Kit ck3200 Then LED Foot well lights Varad RGB