9500ci Custom Install Questions...

[Theopold]

Arrrrrgh! Situation normal, Theopld is now totally confused, as per usual. I don't WANT to cut my grille, certainly couldn't watch them do it...and you're right about replacement costs! Got a couple of pinholes in the freakin' top down windscreen (metal frame with screen, basically) and it costs $700 to replace

So...9500ci for stealth install, small cut for antenna, chuck the ZR4's, go low with the LI's (Laser Position 1) and no cuts?? Tell the truth, after reading this forum that's where my brain ended up in terms of ideal, ain't it great to be rich solutions

p.s. There are few more pics of the car in my album profile

edit: oh, but of course then we have error messages in the 9500ci every time we startup, right?

[FoolishOne]

My personal opinion would be to go with the jammers (LI) in the top grill, not near the itty bitty fog lights. Without a plate, a LEO is going for center of mass or headlight, period. It is my belief that you would get maximun protection from putting them at dj's position.

RADAR antenna, I don't know about. What in the top you get 4.1 miles whereas the bottom you get 4.3 miles?

[djrams80]

Well, I didn't know we had unlimited funds. That changes everything. I would do just like you said. 9500ci, chuck the ZR4s(little error message, no big deal) and I think the LIs will fit in the position I wanted to put the ZR4s without cutting anything. I will go out and measure the LIs right now.

Edit: About 5/8" X 3 1/4" It'll be close, maybe not.

[MEM-TEK]

I like DJ's suggestions for where to put either the 9500ci shifters or the LI heads. As far as the 9500ci's antenna goes, its K/Ka band antenna is the one which is nearest the side edge of the antenna case. Both the X antenna and the K/Ka antenna measure 1.1 inches wide. Thus Theopold could mount the 9500ci antenna such that the K/Ka antenna is completely unobstructed and without having to cut anything on the grille. It really won't matter if the X band antenna is partially obstructed by the grille unless X band is used in Theopold's area. Yet even then the X band sensitivity won't take a very big hit due to the partial obstruction.

P.S. I forgot to mention that Theopold might want to make my 3D paper 9500ci antenna so that he can check its fit in his car's grille:

New 9500ci/STi-R 3D Paper CAD Model...

[Theopold]

Thanks for the additional info, DJ! Sadly, max horizontal grille space between vertical slats is 1 7/8". (Plenty of room for rent down by the itty-bitty fog lights, of course) Is there by any chance some type of dead space, if you will, between the receiver and the transmitter on the LI's?

Thank you to MEM-TEK as well! I'm gonna mock up that pdf document tomorrow (or perhaps I should just ask my man servant to take care of this small task??) and we'll see what's what from an antenna positioning standpoint

[MEM-TEK]

"man servant"...is that another name for a wife? I'm confused!

[swarga]

"man servant"...is that another name for a wife? I'm confused!

Clearly anyone rich enough to afford a car like that can also afford a butler.

[MEM-TEK]

Oh, a butler! Why didn't Theopold just say so? No confusion there.

[mrcllusb]

Here's where my antenna was
Here's where it is now with better performance

[FoolishOne]

Any LEO shooting LIDAR and getting a reading off of that license plate should receive an award. LOL.

mrcllusb, how has your performance been with it like that? Would you recommend it?