Greedy's Red Mitsubishi (Eccy for the chemically enhanced).

[Snooozy]

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[Greedy]

All but finished the wiring now. About 50 wires to run all over the place. I now have fully installed (and working properly ) the following:
Car PC: GPS, tunes and Windows XP. Will look at digital radio at some stage when I can be bothered.

Spotlights: Fyrlyts. They go good.
UHF
Rear/Reverse lights: A 20 watt LED triggered by reverse lights and also a manual switch in the cab.

Air Compressor: Mounted on the passenger wheel arch

Fridge wiring
Canopy Interior LED strip: Automatic when windows are lifted. Can be turned off if not required.
DVD headrests: Wiring is done but haven't put them in yet. One of the legs was bent when Tars crashed the last car they were in.
Jump Start function
Camper trailer charging circuit
Towbar wiring loom.

I then tackled a set of drawers for the tub. These had to house a 70 ltr fridge, the air compressor, 3 tubs we store food in and have storage space for toolbag and recovery gear. Made them from 12mm ply then covered the visible bits with carpet. Came up ok in my book. The fridge slide has 100kg runners and is 900mm long. It extends this far as well. The tray the fridge sits on is homemade from 20mm square steel with a sheet of 12mm ply on top.





I then took the GLX-R towbar and step off and replaced with a GLX towbar. Better clearance. Tars thinks it looks ugly but IMO it weren't no oil painting to start with. She's now considering an ARB rear bar.

Gnomey then sourced me a canopy rack to suit the internal frame of the ARB canopy. Got it at a great price and even sold him the existing roof bars for a carton. Total canopy cost came to $1300. Very Happy.

Ultimate supplied a suspension kit which I installed earlier this week over 2 days. Pretty much eradicated all the bump steering from the previous TJM gas crap that was previously installed. Lifted it nicely too. The TJM stuff had sagged badly. Ride heights:
DF 515 to 565mm
PF 515 to 575mm
DR 555 to 615mm
PR 545 to 615mm.


Refitted the awning from the previous car to the new canopy rack. Just testing the new solar panel/battery setup for the new fridge.

[ratstriton]

Looking good Greedy it has come up very nice.

[Greedy]

Cheers Tim

[Cowboy Dave]

Geez mate you've got me thinking it might be time to dust off some of those to do lists of mine. That's a fair bit you've knocked over there. Jealous of the car computer too, that's so far down my list I'm confident it will never happen.

[4wd26]

Hey that looks great
Liking the rear storage
It's next on my list to do and I'll be taking some pointers from your build

[har05l]

Very impressive , love the handy work in the tub

Little question in regard to the fridge, does it have adequate ventilation

[NowForThe5th]

Done good there, Greedy. Certainly been busy.

Did you end up getting different software for the PC? Seem to recall Centrafuse being mentioned at some point? You just kept the standard radio for the moment?

[mattz]

Well done greedy.
That's an impressive list of things done. What even more impressive is it hasn't caught fire.
Time for a new avatar too.

[Greedy]

Very impressive , love the handy work in the tub

Little question in regard to the fridge, does it have adequate ventilation

This is something bugging me as well. I haven't run a 12 volt fridge before and not sure how much air they require. There is a hole near the rear of the hutch that corresponds to the fan. I'm thinking of doing a duct with a fan into the canopy. Thoughts?

[Greedy]

Done good there, Greedy. Certainly been busy.

Did you end up getting different software for the PC? Seem to recall Centrafuse being mentioned at some point? You just kept the standard radio for the moment?

Thanks Chris. Same software as before. Road Runner. I remember Centrafuse being discussed in tthe early days but haven't considered it myself from memory although that's dodgy too.

The head unit is my amplifier effectively although until I get the digital radio sorted, it's also my only means to listen to sport. No display but ABC is preset and doesn't require tone changes. Digital radio will be a dongle type that uses Road Runner to control.

[4wd26]

Very impressive , love the handy work in the tub

Little question in regard to the fridge, does it have adequate ventilation

This is something bugging me as well. I haven't run a 12 volt fridge before and not sure how much air they require. There is a hole near the rear of the hutch that corresponds to the fan. I'm thinking of doing a duct with a fan into the canopy. Thoughts?

That's on my list of things to do.
the fridge may not need it, but if it runs cool then it uses less power, and a 12volt computer fan uses even less.
Also need to vent the wheel arch where the compressor is, they generate huge heat loads, and this effects their duty cycle

[Greedy]

That works well for me. The compressor and fridge fan are essentially adjacent. 2 birds, 1 stone.

[Greedy]

So now the fridge hutch is ventillated with both air in and out. 2 80mm computer fans with the frames cut to fit in 90mm storm water pipe seems to work a treat. They move plenty of air. Got one mounted on the deck near the front of the tub which provides air to the back of the fridge. The other is mounted under the passenger window and acts as an exhaust for both the fridge and the air compressor. Will see how it travels over the christmas - new year period.




Wiring is simply piggy backed of the fridge circuit. They draw very little. Less than 1 amp between them.

[Cowboy Dave]

Nice touch.

[Greedy]

Thanks Dave. I'm happy with the results. Now to see if it'll work.

[diver albie]

So are the fans wired to run constantly or have you a thermostat to cycle them?

[Greedy]

They're wired to run whenever the fridge circuit is turned on. No thermostat control.

[Snooozy]

If you want to wire in a temp sensor later, consider this an option
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=KG9140
I used one in a similar way on my old van to control a PC fan on the 3 way fridge.

Worked a treat