A friend of mine brought up an interesting idea of putting a Mini-desktop in his car (Maxima) for his engine tuning and multimedia purposes. He tracks this car, which is why he wants a mini-system to run full-time in his car. I've been toying around with the idea because I have built plenty of desktops in the past. I could build a nice machine for under a grand, and have been wondering about the possibility of using the OEM Navigation screen for this purpose. I would have to use some kind of KVM switch, because I do not plan on losing Navigation / OEM switches. I would be using this primarily for multimedia purposes, and possibly web surfing while in the car (Not in motion of course).

Before I go taking apart the dash, Has anyone attempted a task like this? and if possible, what connections would I need to bypass the OEM Navigation and would the touch screen capability work on systems such as OS X or Windows 7.

Thanks in advance!


PS: If this WAS possible, mounting would be in the trunk, most likely mounted on the left of right of my sub box making sure it had enough airflow in the system.

 

mp3car.com forum has a lot of info on this