PS One Screen in a Nissan Hardbody Truck Dashboard

The Zydeco King · Post by **The Zydeco King** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:13 pm

here's some photos of the mod I did to my Nissan truck dash board last weekend. I own a 91 Nissan Hardbody mini truck. the origianl dash didn't have any gages on the left side, so I thought it would be nice to have a PS one screen in the blank area of the dash.

I used a Dremel tool to carve a recess in the plastic for the PS one screen to fit flush into.

I had to make the screen sit low enough so when I placed back the gages they would cover the left and right parts of the screen's circuit board.

I covered the metal frame of the screen with black electrical tape

Then I put the dash back together and tested the screen with Teken3.

Photo taken with camera flash

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:22 pm

Awesome, but is it legal to have a screen there?

The Zydeco King · Post by **The Zydeco King** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:27 pm

Yes it's legal as long as I don't turn it on while I'm driving.
I still need to hard wire the car power adaptor to the screen with an on off switch and I also plan to relocate the brightness control buttons to the dash.
I don't have the internet at home, I'm posting this from a friends house so this means I won't be able to answer all questions right away.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:30 pm

Most places it's illegal to have it in view of the driver, although I suppose it's not much worse than a center console one...
Just don't play while driving....

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:33 pm

gannon wrote:Most places it's illegal to have it in view of the driver, although I suppose it's not much worse than a center console one...
Just don't play while driving....

Especially a racing game, that could turn out really bad.
I feel sorry for you, no internet at home. I almost died from not having it for a week.

The Zydeco King · Post by **The Zydeco King** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:34 pm

There's no way I would turn it on while drivign, I dont' even trust my self driving while talking on a cell phone. ( I always tell people that I will call them back later)

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:44 pm

Wow, cool mod (and driving policies

)! Gotta be fun for the passenger side, at least!

CTFan

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:04 pm

Mount a camera on the front of the dash and duck down while driving to freak people out!

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vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:07 pm

ShockSlayer wrote:Mount a camera on the front of the dash and duck down while driving to freak people out!

That there, is a good idea.

Or, on a more useful note, you could mount a camera on the back bumper for reversing.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:11 pm

vskid wrote:
ShockSlayer wrote:Mount a camera on the front of the dash and duck down while driving to freak people out!
That there, is a good idea.
Or, on a more useful note, you could mount a camera on the back bumper for reversing.

Gee-nee-ous!

That there is some good idea, eh topic starter?

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Post by **Triton** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:16 pm

or use it as a carPC display withGPS then you can use it legally while driving! lol

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:19 pm

Triton wrote:or use it as a carPC display with GPS then you can use it legally while driving! lol

And the point of that is?

You should come up with stupid ideas that people try.

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typamc95 · Post by **typamc95** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:06 pm

Turn your Cigar liter into a standard three prong.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:51 pm

that is pimp

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:57 pm

typamc95 wrote:Turn your Cigar liter into a standard three prong.

Then What do you do when you want a cigar?

anyway thats sweet..