-89 Piazza Turbo HBL - Kaizen Racing Project 2

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I take it your car is not stored in your garage over the winter period?
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Piazza_man wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 5:41 pm I take it your car is not stored in your garage over the winter period?
Boy, am I slow to answer and write here... I used to spend hours every day at our biggest car forums here in Sweden... :yawinkle:
As you understand the car is stored in a garage during winter where I can't work on it as much as I would like to.

Anyway summer is almost over here in northern Europe and I have had a real nice season with the Piazza so far! :heart:
I will do a multi mega catch up post to keep this thread running! It's fun to have a place to collect everything done so far, even though I also have the blog format on my page kaizenracingproject.com as well.

But keep your eyes open for more! :cheers:

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Looking forward to it.
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Let's update a bit around my installation of the stereo and Playstation console in the trunk!

Since I'm a real Fast and the Furious nerd I thought it would be cool to have the same setup as the guy in the white Honda playing Gran Turismo before Brians first race.

A PS1 console was not hard to find – But what kind of screen was used in the movie?
After many attempts on Google, Youtube and visits to a lot of pages, I finally managed to find the actual model: Panasonic CY-VM1500EX, a 7″ LCD color screen which you can see shows in the movie as well.

Straight to Ebay – Jackpot! Found one with original box in Germany!

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Connected everything to a 12V feed and started up. That startup sound from the PS1 console was a direct flashback to childhood, and all the hours spent in front of Gran Turismo. This is exciting!

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During the relocation of the battery to the trunk and testing everything out, the trunk looked like total madness! But with battery moved and everything connected first test run was a succes. I power the Playstation console with a DC converter 12V to 220V normal house power outlet. I just have to be aware of the time spent running all the stuff on only battery power as it will drain it.

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The box built to cover up the battery and house the stereo and console was made from mdf board and cut to fit side to side of the trunk.

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Box was then covered in speaker fabric with pre-mounted glue for easier application. Really happy I choose the more expensive fabric with glue since this was very easy to apply and work with.

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All the wiring was the made to a flip switch panel placed in the dashboard that controls the Pioneer stereo, japanese backup speaker and the underglow.
The led-strip installed in the speakers are controled by the remote that came along with it.

This concludes the Playstation and speaker installation – I’m super happy with it, and everywhere you go this draws a lot of attention!
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:tonqe: great work, I see you’ve been busy. Did you do the battery relocation work yourself?
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Piazza_man wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:57 pm :tonqe: great work, I see you’ve been busy. Did you do the battery relocation work yourself?
Yes indeed, with a little help from a car electrician collegue! It was not as easy as "on Youtube" but still not so bad.
Planning on doing a big effort on a wire tuck, and cosmetic upgrade in the engine bay this winter though. You know, just make everything a littler shinier... :D
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