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I saw this set up and I fell in love. There are a few problems though. The V1 is mounted in the rear: No laser alerts, but he's got a Blinder so he should be good. It looks like the rear antenna is blocked, but depending upon what the material is blocking it he could be O.K. Also, I would try to mount it higher. So check it out everyone. By the way, I love the car to. :D :D
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...tegration.html
Nice car, but a horrible place to mount the V1..
It most definitely is a bad place. I'd use the same set up with the V1 mounted differently and LI. It's still sweet though you have to admit. The whole computer thingy.Quote:
Originally Posted by repeter
Love the on-screen alerts, but....isn't he covering up half the antenna's horn by burying it in the liner? Wonder how much that takes away from the detector's sensitivity?
Radar should be able to pass through the liner. I'm worried about if there's bodywork somewhere in there to. A nice big hunk of steel or aluminum would block it for sure. Then he's got sub woofers right under it shaking the hell out of it. I'd find a better spot for the V1, but it's still sweet.Quote:
Originally Posted by jerry540i
I think he ruined the rear deck of a very nice car by doing that myself. He should have just went with a remote mount detector. He has the money for that car he should have been able to afford the right detector for the job.
My biggest concern would be the impact of the massive magnetic fields from those sub woofers directly under it. The magnets on the rear of those sub woofers are dam near touching the bottom of the detector. Thats not good at all, in fact that's down right terrible.
I didn't even think about the magnets...Yikes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Esoterica
The thing I want is the screen display with "Software One" :lol: It's way out of line of sight though...I don't want it, I changed my mind. It's still cool though.
There's a sweet ass in dash PC system that runs Windows. They were priced between just under $1,000 - $2,700, I'm even thinking they had one that was for a single DIN install that was closer to $700 - $800 (Windows XP) which isn't a very bad price for an in dash PC, thats about the same you would pay for just a laptop, and considerably less than people are going to be paying for the new 9500ci...
http://www.azentekonline.com/cms/content/view/41/146/
The thing does freaking everything, if you added up the individual prices of all this does its a steal at this price. Its also running Vista Aero in the pics so it must have a decent video card driving the display.
I think for the purposes of a show car it's perfect. The RD is concealed and with the computer interface for the alerts in the console the install is bad a$$.
However, In the real world speeding around in that configuration would be problematic. The biggest problem I see is alerts being out of the direct line of sight. The V1s arrows should be available at a glance while you can still see the road. That's why I don't think you can beat a top drivers side RVM location for the V1. You can scan the road ahead, scan your rear view mirror and scan the V1 in one short pass.
But for car shows it's awesome. 8)
Seriously, at that point, just get a STR-R or 9500ci.
I would have gotten the stealth one for the BMW in dash data cluster vs the windows software.
http://www.540i6.com/images/s1_display.jpg
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How do you like them apples...
http://www.540i6.com/images/v1bottomview1.jpg
http://www.540i6.com/images/v1sideview1.jpg
http://www.540i6.com/images/panel3.jpg
Unfortunately can't take credit for it...
http://www.540i6.com/v1.html
It's great from a stealth point of view, but I suspect it severely cripples the functionality of the V1. For starters, I'm sure that fabric completely blocks all laser detection. Also, it looks to me like the front antenna is aimed at a downward angle and partially blocked by that pod of buttons. The front detection must work mostly if not entirely from reflections off the hood of the car. As for the rear antenna, good luck getting anything through the steel roof...Quote:
Originally Posted by amoney
It would be nice if VR made a modified V1 that removes the radar horn from the rear and lets you mount it remotely. Then you could mount the main detector in the nose and have the remote display in the car.
There is one, JAZZY recently posted a link to it, its almost the cost of just getting a 9500ci though and for a "show car" like eric is talking about I'd score a nice 9500ci install far higher than I would that what I see to be a butcher job. Where'd he get that vent thing he's covering the detector with? It looks like something you would see covering the exhaust fan in a truck stop restroom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nighthawk243
I can't imagine what the behavior of that detector would be like by being placed directly in that extremely strong magnetic field like that. My guess is the first time he powered that V1 up he likely destroyed it and thats why you don't see it powered on in the pics.
If I was judging him as a show car judge he'd be out any chance of winning anything from my vote. A cool custom install is one thing, actually being able to work is important, but that isn't even a clean or clever way of going about it just cosmetically speaking. Like I said, it looks like he has a bathroom exhaust fan cover laying on his rear deck.
Clean setup but not every reasonable especially with that windows operating system eeeeee!
I agree, again a conceled setup like this is extreme and there should be some performance hit. As far as laser, true too however the V1 is hyper sensitive, someone wrapped a V1 in a towel and it still alerted to laser, so who knows, perhaps it would help rid the V1 from flases, but like you said, its a risk it will not detect, not that one depends on it to save oneself from a laser ticket. I would imagine the user has a seperate laser counter measure anyways.Quote:
Originally Posted by swarga
Like I said, this extreme setup, might as well get an external setup STIr or Escort SRX or 9500ci
I like how he gives no credit to the person who wrote the windows/v1 display.
He gives credit to the guy that made the interface. . which all he had to do was follow a guideline that Jimbonzzz actually created.
Well by mounting the V1 like that this guy doesn't seem too bright in the first place. :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by bauzer71487
Theres not really a point in being stealthy if you're not getting the full performance that you paid for! I'm a fan of leaving the V1 in a level, optimal viewing position.