Racing_Enriquez Fabiaputer (from Spain)

**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:10 AM

Hi Forum, let me present my machine

The machine is a Fabia 1.9 TDI Elegance, bought used on August 2007

It cames with lots of features:

Alloy Rims

Fog lights

Electric and heated mirrors

Heated front seats

4 power windows

Beige interior

...

But I wanted to add more features

I added these:

Exterior:

Bumpers and doors protectors painted in silver grey

OEM Xenon headlights

BMW E39 headlight washers

Hid conversion kit (h3 4300ºK) in front fog lights

Rearview camera mounted in trunk door

Seat Sport strut brace (painted in green skoda)

Interior:

Infinity Kappa 65.7 CS Speakers in front (mounted in standard ones position)

Infinity Kappa 65.7 CS Speakers in rear (tweeters in standard ones position, and woofers in the tray)

Selfmade MDF Tray (to fit new speakers)

Full audio wires upgraded to have better performance

Indash touchscreen K90

Carputer in selfmade case mounted in the back of left rear seat

Cadence TXA6004 power amplifier

Sony RM-X4S remote controller (to take control of the media in carputer)

1 Kg Fire extinguisher fitted in driver's seat

2 Kg fire extinguisher fitted in the back of right rear seat

The engine is as it comes from the dealer, only have the EGR valve partially closed (via vagcom)

**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:14 AM

These are the components of the carputer:

PC:

Case: "hand made" case in 10mm MDF with 3 holes for fans, and 1 5.25" bay

Mainboard: ASRock K7S41GX

CPU: Amd 1'2 GHz

Ram: 2x Kingston 1 Gb

Power Supply: M2 ATX

Master HDD: Compact Flash Sandisk Extreme IV 4Gb (266x) with IDE-CF adaptor

Slave HDD: Fujitsu 2'5" 120 Gb in external HDD case, USB wired

DVD Unit: LG DVD writer

Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! Audigy 24 Bit 5.1

Video Card: mainboard integrated

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OPERATING SYSTEM

Windows Xp Unatended Edition installed in Compact Flash, with EWF protection (Enhanced Write Filter)

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COOLING

Case: 2x Tacens Aura 120 mm fans

CPU: Tacens Aura 70 mm fan

M2 ATX: 1x 40 mm fan

Amplifier: 2x 80mm fans

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SCREEN

"Tuned" in Dash K90

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GPS:

Bluetooth Antenna Navilock BT-348 (Sirf Star III)

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BLUETOOTH RECEIVER:

Ovislink ABT 30

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TDT RECEIVER:

Conceptronic (USB)

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SOUND:

Amplifier: Cadence TXA 6004 (4 channel) in trunk bottom

Front Spk: Infinity Kappa 65.7 CS woofers and tweeters in doors, filters in dashboard

Rear Spk: Infinity Kappa 65.7 CS woofers in "hand made" board, tweeters in rear doors, filters in trunk bottom

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BATTERY:

Bosch Silver S4 008 74 Ah

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WIRING:

12V

Positive:

Battery to +Dist: "Extrem Pad Positivo 30 mm" (with "snake skin")

+Dist to amplifier "Extrem Pad Positivo 20 mm" (with "snake skin")

+Dist to power supply: "Extrem Pad Cable 4 mm" (speaker cable)

Negative:

-power supply to -Dist: "Extrem Pad Cable 4 mm" (speaker cable)

-Amp to -Dist: "Extrem Pad Negativo 20 mm" (with "snake skin")

-Dist to Chassis: "Extrem Pad Negativo 50 mm" (with "snake skin")

Reinforced Battery Ground: "Monacor Car Power Negativo 30 mm" (with "snake Skin")

VGA:

2xVGA male-female 1.8 m + 20 cm male-male VGA to screen

USB:

2xUSB A-USB A male-female 3 m Belkin

1xUSB A-USB A male-female 1 m

1xUSB A male-male 1 m (for screen)

RCA VIDEO (Cams to screen):

Video RCA male-male 2m Belkin (will be changed for 5m wire)

Video RCA male-male 5m Vivanco

SOUND:

Sound card to amplifier:

2xJack-2RCA Vivanco

Amplifier to spk filters:

EVUS CA-14 2x2mm

Spk filters to woofers:

EVUS CA-14 2x2mm

Spk filters to tweeters:

Extrem Pad Cable 1'5 mm 2x1'5mm

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FUSE HOLDER

Impact DP 1081 (with digital voltmeter), ANL 100 A main fuse

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POSITIVE DISTRIBUTOR:

EVUS BD3 AFC with Mini ANL 80A and Mini ANL 30A fuses

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NEGATIVE DISTRIBUTOR:

EVUS BP4

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CONNECTORS/TERMINALS

+12V/-12V

4xExtem Pad Conector Plus 50 mm

1xKit "Aiv Green Power" "U" terminals for wires up to 25 mm2 (amplifier feeding and negative)

1xKit "Aiv Green Power" "U" terminals for wires from 2'5 to 4mm2 (amplifier remote)

Sound:

1xKit "Aiv Green Power" "U" terminals for wires from 2'5 to 4mm2 (amplifier output to speaker lines)

1xKit "Aiv Green Power" speaker faston terminals (speakers)

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REARVIEW CAMERA:

Cam with IR and mirror mode (no switchable) (bought in Ebay)

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FRONT PARKING CAM:

Cam with IR and switch option for mirror mode (bought in Ebay) (unmounted yet)

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VOLUME REMOTE CONTROL

Sony RM-X4S adapted to joystick port

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KEYBOARD:

Mini USB Keybard "Colorsit" (approx 1 A4 long) without number keyboard, 10 hotkeys

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**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:16 AM

Let's see the images of the case

THE CASE, MAKING OFF:

I have an uncle that likes to work the wood, and in his free time, he make furnishes (for him or for selling it)

I called him, and the answer was yes

I did the blueprints of the case, bought the MDF and gave all to my uncle:

here are the images:

Cutting some parts of the MDF board:

One of six blueprints:

The case (not finished yet):

"Filling the case" (sorry for the blur)

**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:17 AM

"Filling the case" (sorry for the blur)

Another image of the filling (not definitive placing for some parts):

Final product: (without the girll that cover the hole for the CPU fan)

**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:18 AM

I don't have images of the screen adaption, because I changed the screen, and there is only pictures of the first screen I used

"TRUNK BOTTOM" AND AMPLIFIER:

(sorry for my english)

Here is a picture of the "trunk board" (i don't know its name in english; sorry).

Made by my uncle from a 16mm MDF board (using the original to take measures)

Originally we made 2 holes for a pair of 6x9 speakers, but later I changed my opinion and mount a pair of 2 separate ways (6.5" woofers), and there was necesary two adaptors (you'll se them later; i will advise)

(dont worry about the teddycat)

Detail of the edge:

Here, are a pair of pictures of the amplifier

I had read that it was big, but you can't image how big untill you see it

It's 25 inches long

Some specs:

4X150W RMS (4 Ohm)

4X300W RMS (2 Ohm)

2X600W RMS (4 Ohm Bridged)

MOSFET

Fully adjustable crossover

Remote control for Sub gain level

....

The best of all is its price: €245

A picture of the box (and the ****ing cat):

And another one of the amplifier (take a look of its size):

**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:19 AM

FIRST STARTING OF THE CARPUTER (AT HOME)

2 days before mounting all into the car, I decided to configure and start the PC

Sorry for the mess of my desk:

Loading Windows before installing:

Applying system configuration:

Never before, a blue windows screen gave me bigger satisfaction:

WTF???? a problem???:

This was a problem with the size of "virtual memory", because I'm using a 4GB Compact Flash to install the Operating System, just 5 minutes to fit the problem, and no more problem

**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:19 AM

THE DAY BEFORE

I had to let everything ready to load in the car and go to mount all into the Fabia

I went to sleep at 3:00 AM and woke up at 6:45 AM

There is a picture of some elements that would be mounted (some of the elements into the big box were not mime)

There is another one:

Take a look to the adaptors that i talked about in a post before:

**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:21 AM

THE "D" DAY (Saturday, April 5th 2008)

After waking up at 6:45 and went 6 times to the car to load all (sorry, there are no pictures of this), I had a revitalizing shower and went to mount all

I had a date at 8:00 with a friend that helped me to mount the carputer (i would help his to mount his carputer)

Special thanks to Domingo, my Boss that let me mount all into the work place (that day were closed)

A picture of all ready to be mounted:

This is only for +18

My naked fabia:

You must have in mind that there were this amounts of wires (sorry for my english):

SPK wire: about 35 meters

Main positive wire: about 5 meters

USB: 9 meters

VGA: 3.2 meters

Sound RCA: about 3 meters

Video RCA: about 7 meters

and many other smaller quantity of any other wires

the best of all is that you won't see any wire, all of them are really well camulfated under the floor of the car

There are a little bit photos of the mounting, because we were mounting all as fast as possible

Give special thanks too, to Peri, the friend that helped me mounting all

Here, a picture of Peri, "wearing" the positive wire with the "snake skin":

Wiring the positive from battery to trunk:

**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:23 AM

A detail:

Another detail:

Spk wires from amplifier to front spk filters; you can see also VGA, and Ethernet cable (for the main control panel of the carputer), and USB ...

On saturday we were mountin all from 8:00 to 22:00h, and I also went to finish all on sunday, and I was from 9:00 to 22:30h

Give the most special thanks to my girlfriend for all

There are some pictures more....

**Racing_Enriquez** · 07-07-2009 12:24 AM

This one is of the fuseholder (the blue wire is voltmeter ground), in the pic wasn't finished yet:

Here is the screen in operating position (the tilt angle is fully adjustable)

Pictures of the old screen (the actual screen is another model)

And this.... in "parking position"

Where is the screen????:

Lots of work to manage this result

Actually is 100% operative, but i need to install some programs like PhoneControl (to have hands free), and reinstall Road Runner (a front end to control all the system), and I have to install the cameras too

A picture of the keyboard (there are some smaller, but i only need to use it two or three times):

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