NAV!!

The nav is in and it's awesome! I freaking love it. Friday night we decided to get started on it and before we knew it we were hot and heavy into and before long it was done. It took a little over 4 hours but we had Saturday set aside to knock it out too. The guys on the evo forum said it takes forever and some spent 10 hours on it. Byrd rolled in to help with the dremel action. He is really good at it and why waste resources when you have them? :)

Here she is in all her glory.
Did ya notice the fake warning screen? It's a fake warning about a turbochaged car, pretty funny. Changing the loading screen is super easy.
This is the main root navigation for the unit.

I have already be digging around and uploaded new point of interest icons! It's funny to see windows running like that. It uses windows CE, so I have a little PC in my car. Hitting the buttons in the windows enviroment is super hard, and I didn't realize there's a stylus til after.

I couldn't be happier. The ipod connection works great, the nav works like a nav and the bluetooth is awesome! The voice recognition is pretty awesome. Just tap the big silver button and say play aritst so and so and it works. The VR for phone dail is a little buggy, you have to say the actual number, but you can also use the unit to nav through your contacts and that's pretty simple.

FINALLY...I own a Nav

I finally broke down and bought one! I have wanted a nav unit forever! After not a lot of research I went for the Pioneer AVIC-F90BT.


This one does everything! Nav, bluetooth (reviews say it works great with the iphone), great ipod control, USB inputs, plays DivX movies, great voice control, it's pretty endless. Another great thing about this unit is the maps are on an internal flash drive, meaning updating the nav maps is simple and cheap. Even google maps can me loaded.


Now for the fun/hard part. Once I found this rewite up I knew it could be done. I had to order 2 addition pieces. The radio relocation kit (seen above) will house the HVAC unit once its cut from its current module. I have order the wiring harness and the double din piece. The double din piece is straight from Japan so it's going to take a while to get that, but its on its way.

Hopefully next weekend everything will be here and I can get started!

UPDATE!
The double din panel's estimated delivery is the 17th! Wack!

UPDATE 2!
It arrived on the 7th. 7 days from Japan to my door! Not bad.