AlienEclipse

Ever looked into having a carpc? mp3car.com Mines been in nearly a year and has been great. Have my entire music collection at my finger tips or voice!

Nice find. Sounds like me. i brought by E36 coupe from a (still active) BMW/Jaguar mechanic who did the engine, cooling, suspension and a few other bits an bobs. His son was going to buy it, but couldn't afford it. Now i have it and i love it. Anywho, welcome to the forums and enjoy your new ride.

Mmmm, Carbon Fiber

Ha, you should paint it midnight black. Looks awsome from that photo.

Thanks. Yeah, seen your signature. You have a damn nice car too. I kinda like the full black, stealth look.

Cheers. The Jade Quay building in the dunedin harbour basin is good place for photos. The whole building is just glass. attached is another pic that shows a bit more of the building.

I didn't have much choice, but to replace the wheels as they were too wide for the front. Both the front and rears were 18x9. It was rubbing something chronic and would pass WOF. Mag and turbo gave me a good deal on the new ones. Plus the wheels were majorly curbed. I actually like the look of the new ones better (similar in design to the old ones.)

The car is very much round dunedin all the time. Its my only car, so i uses to to go to and from work and everywhere else i need to. It only looks tidy in that photo coz i had just spent the previous 3-4 hours cleaning it. Yeah, took quite a few shots that day. My camera is only a budget point-and-shoot 10.1 MegaPixel Casio. As for the photo graphic touch, i like to play a bit in Photoshop.

Cheers. It has been 10 months of pure joy!

On a good day, less than 5 sec. using hibernation. on a bad day, close to a minute or not at all. Haven't tracked down what causes it to go slower.

Here is an updated pic (taken today) with the new wheels. Forgot to put the spots back in, so it looks a little weird. As for the CarPC. Basically i have a custom small form factor PC in the back (above the sub box). It runs a modified/slimmed down version of Windows XP. It runs an application called Centrafuse (www.centrafuse.com) which provides music, video, dvd playback as well as GPS navigation, web browser, email client, OBDII readout, bluetooth, wireless, plus much more. All this is driven from a 7" LCD touch screen mounted in the dash. Check out http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show-off-your-project/ and have a look at some installs to get an idea of it. I'll post pics soon.

Not an actaul M-Spec (Unfortunately). One of the many previous owners would have done a face lift.

Hopefully if the weather holds i will actually get a chance to clean it and take new pics. Hasn't been cleaned for over a month and with all the crap weather, she's a very dirty girl.

Don't know why its taken me so long to join this forum. But i'm here now. My pride and joy is a '95 325i Coupe. Had it about 10 months now. It had 197,000Kms on the clock when i brought it. Ive put on an additional 11,000kms in the past 10 months and haven't had an issue, everything in/on the car working. Including my carpc (explain more later). The pics attached are a bit old. Ive changed the mags (and house) since these were taken.

Geoff McFarlane Signs is who your talking about. He did my E36 Coupe for $350 (i think). Brilliant job. 03-455-6000 Unit 10, 4 Strathallan St