Friday, May 11, 2012

Barely Bearable

Having driven The Dog back and forth Lampung-Jakarta by myself quite often lately, i realized she could use some improvement on the driving pleasure department. I decided some audio would make those long drives just a bit more bearable. Nothing fancy, just to make sure i have some sounds to accompany me.

First thing that needs to be done is to reduce that Bosch pump buzz coming into the interior, hence the wooden cabin-trunk separator. It may look simple but this was the most time consuming part actually, with all those pipes from the roll cage, careful measurement was needed.


After that, the head unit. This is just a cheap Chinese one with USB drive, memory card and DVD playback capability.


The first question that pops in your head must be why is it at the back?! Well, with all the gauges taking up valuable space on the dashboard and with the help of the remote control, putting it there seems to make sense.

Last thing going in is this little guy here.. No AC? No problem. LOL.

The cable gets routed inside one of the rollcage tube. Still messy but i'll get to it later.


2 comments:

  1. Just curious though, this seems to be your daily driven ride, you already invested on audio (albeit a cheap one), why not invest on some proper air-cond as well? I have an air-cond for my Charmant and I don't drive it daily, mostly weekend when I'm having fun with it, and boy I'm sure our weathers are similar, the air-cond does come in very, very handy.

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  2. I'd like to think the reason for no air-cond is no space for the compressor (with the Megasquirt crank sensor in the way) and condenser (with intercooler taking up space up front).. but even i can think of a way to solve those issues. Hence the real reason is probably "not now". LOL. Any money i have will be spent on the engine and drivetrain for now.

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