A little b-day bling for my Crewzer

[PDoyle]

Dude! I'd sell my house and live in the 80!!!

 

[JML403]

Threads like this bring out all sorts of crazy ideas! Thanks for sharing all the details and what not. Looks good

 

[vladi80]

now thats BLIIIING !!!!! GOOD JOB

 

[robmir]

OK, so yesterday I was messin around with the guitar in the shop and one of our bodymen walks over, grabs the guitar and starts jammin out of nowhere

YouTube - Rafi's Cuban Cruiser Jam




After that, he grabs the mic and kicks it with some karaoke

YouTube - Rafi's Cruiser Karaoke jam

Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting in the non USA 200 series of a friend who replaced it's OEM head unit with a Kenwood DNX8120 and I realized I wasted my money in the Sony XAV-1W which I had not installed yet and already hate !!!!

This unit is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, and he got it for about $1200 through amazon with absolutely all the required accesories including the rear camera, the ipod control cable, the GPS antena, etc.

It has a SD slot on which he downloaded to it's internal GPS all our country Garmin maps including addreses to our local restaurants and voice guide you to them through the drivers left speaker when the remaining speakers still play music for the passengers, he hooked his 160 GB ipod classic, he paired the bluetooth to his Blackberry 8320, dial numbers, review all his calls log, his contacts, and from which he can send music via bluetooth and pause or play it from the Kenwood touch display which take control of many of the Blackberry functions, he hooked a rear camera just under the third brake light without opening any holes keeping it concealed, and the cherry on the top of the cake is that he could interface the OEM steering wheel buttons to the Kenwood code learning steering wheel input control so now he can do almost everything from the steering wheel when he is too lazy to do it from the touch display. And he has not yet hooked a rear monitor to it's dual zone output @#$%^&.

The unit also plays DIVX movies !!!!!!!!

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Nice, but even though it's lower than the normal price, $1200 is still quite a bit of cheese and way more than what I'd be willing to throw down on an HU no matter how many gadgets it has

We got the Sony for just a little over $500 and it fulfills all our needs and then some

 

[robmir]

Nice, but even though it's lower than the normal price, $1200 is still quite a bit of cheese and way more than what I'd be willing to throw down on an HU no matter how many gadgets it has

We got the Sony for just a little over $500 and it fulfills all our needs and then some

He didn't purchase the Sirius, XM or HD tuners nor the TV tuner, since any of them make any sense here.

Unfortunately the way I see it, is that they are not just gadgets, because if you add the cost of a GPS navigation unit, a full featured bluetooth handsfree unit, a DVD / monitor HU and a rear camera, the sum of the parts is a lot more that what he paid and everything is so smootly integrated, there is not words to describe it, of course all in a plush 200 series with the kinetic suspension crawling option which makes me feel my 80 as an old and way outdated SUV.

The ipod control is lightning fast as I never saw in any vehicle HU, the bluetooth section is par with my top of the line Parrot handsfree(which Kenwood licensed) and a GPS to guide me to my favorite spots in the rain forest once I copy the waypoints from my friends which recorded them previously on their expensive Garmin 276C's, an all in one box with a very easy hook up makes me

The only subject I am quite dissapointed is that his 200 cruiser came with the 4.7 engine instead of the bigger available in the states, bearing that this cruiser is heavier than our 80 series, so it feels like a very soft and nice brick.

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

A few more pix with the subz (I have a smaller sub in a downfiring box for times when more space is needed)

Also, I'm planning sumthin a bit more crazy

Not giving details just yet, but here's what I started yesterday

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Ok, after a little test fitting, I realized my switch panel took up a bit too much space, so I downsized the main block by using individual jacks and extended the cables so I could tuck them away neatly in the passenger side kickpanel

Ripped her apart for the umpteenth time...

Then I installed front and rear bumper cams....

Added a mainswitch and relay for the cams...

As well as a push button switch for activating the reverse sensing input to feed the HU without switching the rear screens and disturbing the passengers movie time...

So basically, the knob switches from camera to camera rather than just a reverse cam

The other inputs will be for interior cams, a pan/tilt dome cam and one wireless cam that I'll mount on my R/C crawler so I can drive by monitor for bush excursions

Still on the lookout for a decent 30fps automatic DVR that's small enough to fit behind the glove box

 

[Sanchez]

how about this?

Wireless 4 Camera Color Quad w/ Remote View - Nanny Cameras

-Juan

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

how about this?

Wireless 4 Camera Color Quad w/ Remote View - Nanny Cameras

-Juan

Nah, it's not a stand alone DVR

Also, wireless systems with multiple cameras usually suck

I have a setup similar to that one laying around in my office and it works well when 1 or 2 cameras are powered up (both audio and video), but more than that and I get conflicting signals

 

[paule]

All those speakers to listen to Simon and Garfunkel???

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

All those speakers to listen to Simon and Garfunkel???

Hell Yes!!


S&G ROCKS!!

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Well, I finally picked up a decent DVR

Stand alone Compact Flash based system, 30fps, 720p, A/V duplex playback, adjustable motion and alarm detection as well as autolooping memory

And best of all, it's dirt cheap and small enough to fit in the glove box

I have yet to install it, but after a few hours of benchtesting in the office, it looks very promising

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Installed and workin great

 

[lndcruz]

You've got so many neat toys in your cruiser.

 

[MutleyFJ62]

Its time for a bigger lift, all that extra ICE gear has gotta be adding up by now....

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Its time for a bigger lift, all that extra ICE gear has gotta be adding up by now....

As much as I'd love to get a lift, I think I'll be much better off sticking with the stock height until I actually need to go taller

So for now, this will have to suffice

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

The Cruiser Cam recorded a little accident a couple days ago

YouTube - NYPD Accident caught on Land Cruiser Cam (see description)



See YouTube description for details....

 

[stash12]

cool

sweet b-day gifts, i want a mom like yours!!

 

[mot]

The Cruiser Cam recorded a little accident a couple days ago

YouTube - NYPD Accident caught on Land Cruiser Cam (see description)

See YouTube description for details....

Nice sountrack! LOL!!