I finally finished some interior projects - iPod mount, cell phone mount (it's a magnetic holder that's also a mute - it mutes my stereo when calls come in) and a new rear view mirror with map lights.

 

cool man, looks good n' tidy.

 

isn't that kind of inviting to criminals?

 

The mounts are kind of intrusive, but looks very neat none-the-less. How do u like those Carbon gauges on the A-Pillar? How are they at night as well? I wondered about the illumination of 'em...

 

looks great man

 

What seats are those?

 

more pic's of the complete car. I notice its a Vert front the 3rdPic you posted.

 

how does the cell phone mute the cd player is that an option on tthat specific cd player? if so what its called?

interested in that
cheers

blake

 

Thanks a lot guys. I'm pretty happy with it. Now I just need new carpets, door panels, shifter plate, rear seats........................

yeah, I have to take the iPod and the phone out all the time. I'm putting in an alarm with a microwave sensor next week. Should help a little, but I'm always going to have to take it out - fortunately the iPod mount is a quick release, and the phone cradle is magnetic so it only takes a second

Actually the mounts don't get in the way at all, I was pretty careful where I put them - the iPod wheel is now just at my fingertips when my hand is resting on the shifter, and the phone is mostly over the parking brake lever which I almost never use. The 'Carbon' gauges light up pretty well. I really wanted the Cobalt series gauges, but they were WAY too much cash - even these were more than I wanted to spend ($95)

Thanks. I'm pretty happy - especially at night.

I'll get some up tomorrow.

Yeah, it's a Pioneer CD-HF1 cell phone hands free kit - I'm not using the hands free part (a microphone in a convertable will never work) but it works great as a mute so I know when the phone is ringing when the tunes are pumping! I'm pretty sure it's just a trigger and would work with any deck that has a mute input wire.

Corbeau CR-1's. Really comfy, but already starting to come apart after a year. I wrote them a letter and they sent me new covers though - I just gotta pay to have them put on.

 

Looks awesome

I hate ipods though -.-, i have a 40 gb, and i hate it, thing sucks, :P

 

What could you hate about having 4000 songs at your fingertips with perfect sound?

 

looking good, a mega shifter would compliment things nicely, def. on my list...

 

10,000 songs.

Went i first got it, it would skip a song if i hit next, or it would freeze, and they said i couldn't return it for that, so i was stuck with it, 3 months later my battery dies, they wanted 100 bucks to replace it.
so i did it myself and a thing inside cracked so now my charge plug falls out.


and cds have a nicer quality :P

 

CD's are slightly higher quality on paper, but I have a pretty good stereo in my car and I can't tell the difference. It is ****ty though that you had all those problems with yours - I guess I'd be pretty bitter too. Buy a new one and return it with yours in the box...

 

If you had a better system or better ears you'd hear a difference. MP3s really can't compare to uncompressed music quality. But with road noise and what not who really cares considering the convenience. I would (and did) buy a built in MP3 player with harddrive and call it a day- I'm not a fan of having to plug in things and remembering to remove them when I drive my car.

 

they would notice it, lol, buttom of mine looks like it was hit with a hammer, like someone got pissed at it



but if i coild do it all over again, i woulda got a ipod mini, there better built, but less songs,

or the new sony one, its allot nicer then ipod and holds more songs for the same price

 

Just get an Olympus M:Robe from Radio Shack. $100 after $30 mail in rebate. Basically an Ipod mini with 5GB storage. Comes with a cradle and looks better/less trendy.

 

iPod works great for me, very simple to use while driving.

 

what kind of steering wheel was that?

it looked very comfortable to drive with.

 

it looks like one out of an early 90's Cavalier

 

Venom is right on ... from a 91 Cav I think... It was on the carwhen I bought it. Havent decided what to replace it with - most aftermarket wheels are too r!cey.... probably go original Iroc - pretty low on the priority list though...so many dreams, so little cash....

 

Looks pretty good, I m not a fan of cell phone mounts though. Whats relly the purpose.

Still, kodus on the ipod deal.

 

your office looks great

 

I think the steering wheel looks pretty cool

 

mega shifter on a t-56..new one for me

 

well someone just stold my ipod out of my car,

 

I thought 40gb were around 15 or 20k for songs....I have a 40gb with about 8000 and still have some room to go....but now mine is broken as well (buddy borrowed my bag that I use for school to haul some beer across campus and drunkenly put an open bottle in there)....hence beer+ipod= out 400 bucks ......but when it did work, I hooked it up to my bose system I have for my computer....doesnt sound as good as cd's IMO

 

you have to remember that the quality is all dependant on mp3 bitrate (but yest i know that cd>mp3 in quality, but its not that big of a difference with a high quality mp3)... that also has to do with the file size and how many songs you can fit on your ipod..

40GB = actually 40,000,000,000 bytes (37.25GB)

If you are putting mp3's (note, not wma) in your Ipod that are only 2MB a piece and have a bitrate of 96-128, you are gonna be able to fit a ****-ton of mp3's on that ipod, but you will be sacrificing a lot of quality... if you are extremely concerned about quality, downloa- i mean, rip your cd's at 320Kbps (will make the filesize somewhere in the area of 10mb per mp3)

hope that helped a bit

 

So what your saying is people should talk out their *** when they have no clue about technology

I encode at 160Kbps VBR. Sounds great on my system from the low low punch bass to the screaming high notes.

MP3s are close enough.

Plus, going through a case of CDs while driving is a PITA. Using the iPod interface to find 1 song out of 10k is easy as pie.