Rabsters New Toy Nissan 350z GT4 Ultra Yellow

[rabster]

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 The alloys are in brand new condition having been replaced by Nissan in 2010 under warranty due to some slight corrosion.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.......

[rabster]

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 -

[rabster]

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

[rabster]

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

 

[rabster]

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

 

[CIH]

"Bitchin' ride. 'didn't realise it came in banana"

 

lol sorry that line was in a film I'm watching right now. Anyhoo, I eally disliked these when new but they're growing on me.

[Rich]

Very nice motor that Rabs I really like the ICE install as well, you seem to have a natural skill for these kind of jobs.

[S2IM]

Great work! Good looking car as well. Love the sound of the v6 in these, especially with a system on it.

 

Very clever work there on the ICE. Would love to have an in car PC on mine but space is an issue!

[djwozza]

Looking good mate, nice ICE work (as usual )