Alright guys...I've got the latest and greatest up...this time I've added video as well, so check it out, I hope you guys like!

http://devoid.mine.nu/pictures/Videos/

 

OK...my thread was falling a little to far back in the list, so I thought I should push it back up front! :D (LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME) Naw...Just kidding.

Anyway, as of yesterday, the doors were shaved and look awesome. Check out the pictures here: http://devoid.mine.nu/pictures/20040913%20-%20RX-8/

As for the status of things...the body shop is to be finished at the end of Sept. The Audio Shop says they'll have it done by mid-Oct. So in-other-words, I'll have it by Christmas. Sigh......such is life. :o

 

I hope you have some sort of aux AC unit in there. This car runs really hot with a poor AC showing as it is. All those electronic devices and screens and amps and... You better go to Costco and get some Right Guard. The trunk gets particularly toasty. Don't buy any icecream at the grocery store.

 

haha...got the icecream covered...believe it or not. I will actually have a power cooler/warmer in the trunk. It can hold up to 9 12oz cans of pop. And since its powered, it will do quite nicely, in either scenerio. It fits as if it was custom made, right in the place where the tire inflation kit is located! I figured this would work better than the right guard option... :D

 

Is that <Gasp!> rust in the doors in the Aug 30th pictures??

 

^^^ Genuinely hard to determine. It certainly looks like rust...and is rusted metal of some sort. Believe me, I was not happy to have seen this on a 3 month old car that had 5 miles on it. Because it wiped off, for the most part, we believe it is rust/stain from the welds. This is the nature of welds. So yeah, be somewhat forewarned all you other owners, the insides of your doors will no doubt look much worse than that. BC this is something we've caught up front, we will make it a non-issue by coating the welds with a rustproofing oil. This will be done to all doors as well as fender and wheel wells.

 

I've noticed rust stains on the inside of my wheels (the rims, not the wells). The brake rotors rust in minutes...I mean that literally, minutes. The rust washes down the rotors and drips onto the wheels....

Wax on the wheels helps, but its still a pain..you really need to take them off to do it (wax) well.

 

So what do you guys think? Does the car look good in matte black?
http://devoid.mine.nu/pictures/20040922%20-%20RX-8/

Well, as you can see, progress is being made. The handles are gone, its completely debadged, and as you can see from the pics, its been wetsanded to remove the orange peel. I saw it this morning, buffed back to shine, and man, its B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L. It has such clean lines without the handles and badging. They are probably going to work on the grilles today. (they brought in some material this morning.) Man, I cannot express how absolutely professional this guys are. They are awesome perfectionists.

What's left:
Grilles
Brake calipers, lines, etc.
Rust issue inside doors

 

Just letting everyone know that I finally finished the redesign of the picture gallery on my website. I hope you like it. I'll be working on the Feedback next...then the cars section. Take a look and let me know what you think by responding here!

Oh and I picked up the car from the body shop yesterday. It looks AMAZING. It is so smooth and shiny. The doors look out-of-this-world. The debadging looks great. Everything is awesome. The calipers, the new grilles, everything! Take a look in the photo gallery, under yesterday's date.

devoid.mine.nu

 

Awesome update on the website! Man I wish I had the time and $$ to do what you are doing... No more orange peal - fantastic. What are you coating your car with? Clear bra or something similar?

 

^^^^ Nothing....I can't do anything for at least a month to allow the paint to dry. So that pretty much means, I'm gonna allow it to sit all winter. Than in the spring, I'll do a wax job. The guy who did all the fab work went through a rundown of care and maintenance with me, and recommended Macguires products.

 

The site is down...

 

Hmm....I'm not having a problem.......ineresting....

devoid.mine.nu

 

Just to let you guys know...the lights are partly installed. After 2 and 1/2 months on order...I'm still waiting for some of the lighting parts. But you can take a look at some of the lights. Also, though the license plate, side markers, and parking lights all look blue, they are really ultraviolet (ie blacklight) They really do look awesome.

For those looking: http://devoid.mine.nu
Click on the latest photo album under the photos section, or the rx-8 pictures section.

 

I wanted to let everyone know that DevoidWeb is back up and running. (For those of you that noticed!) Anyway, in its absense we have completed the work on the exterior of the car. We have added the ICELEDs to just the outside and I now have pictures up on the site. These things look incredible and are definetaly worth a look. Even without the functionality that they have, they are amazingly bright and you can't get by the idea of a nearly limitless color selection.

Take a look http://devoid.mine.nu

 

ok...I have some better pics up on the site...
for the truly lazy:
http://devoid.mine.nu/CarAlbum.asp?AID=201&CT=RX
and
http://devoid.mine.nu/CarAlbum.asp?AID=202&CT=RX

otherwise just navigate the site...leave me some feedback, etc.
http://devoid.mine.nu

 

wow I really like the dash mod and the touchpad controller.

Did you give any thought to using a touchscreen rather than having the mousepad, or is it both?

Have you sat in the car to see if the touchpad was too far back or not?

Are you going to lose functionality of the red LCD?

If not, that's a really awesome way to go about putting a carputer in. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Lights aren't exactly my thing but they look to be better then anything I've seen on the road, especially with the grilled shadow.

-Greg ::wishing he had enough money to pull of that carputer mod::

 

as for the touchscreen vs. touchpad.
The touchscreens (the center counsel and the 2 rear passenger flip downs) are all Alpine, and thus are touch compatible/controllable for the entire Alpine system. There is no way to integrate them with conroll over the computer, though they will display the computer. Thus for control, we opted for something that could look semi like it belonged, and I chose a black touchpad (FYI, it was near impossible to find)
As for the location, it is fine. It's just as comfortable as using the NAV controls, resting my arm on the armrest. The buttons were also moved off the touchpad and to an ergonmic positioning. The keyboard is tucked under the passenger seat.

As for the red LCD - yes that is still functional. We were forced to keep a minimal portion of the factory radio to do this. The display is only worthwhile for the time, temp, and temp controls. No radio information will be displayed upon it.

Hope that answers your questions.

 

Devoid your site is down...or not accessible to many....check into it I'm dying to see more pics!

 

It's been up....I did notice a problem this afternoon with a lag in DNS updating though. It changed IPs this afternoon so while the DNS servers were updated...many people's computers were still automatically going to the old IP...thus getting someone's apache web server. Sorry 'bout that guys...not my fault. Enjoy the pics though!

 

Its working !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!