Husky

good luck guys, very jealous! just dont loose your passport like I did last week

so if you know what all the ball aches are going to be... what are you going to do about that odd shaped hole meaning the DC headers won't quite line up properly out of the box...? I know about this and I haven't even taken headers off before. After you screw enough things up you tend to listen to the people who know what they are talking about, ask around people who have done it before and listen to their answers. OR, choose to learn by yourself by all means, it's your money. considering he hasn't been on either forum since 22nd sept 2010 and no one including his friends from the other club have heard from him then I'm not sure I believe you get him to post up about the subject since he's such an expert on all things zed... oh wait silly me, he can't. UNLESS YOU ARE 3FIDDYZ

haha i want a video of the 2 hours per side, very interested Personally I would be getting a written quote he cant go back on then get it done, your talking 10 hours in total not 4 seriously though, he simply can't do it that quickly so he doen't know what he's talking about it will backfire on you when your car is in bits and he is asking for another 16 hours labour

Cheers John, just won £5 and doubled it to £10 by guessing who would post it.

looks open to me

you can have mine for £6700

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/04/12/five ... #continued i really like the new touchscreen!

Ah, 'The meaning of life.' 55,826 lets make it 55,042

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Well, it's all the trips to Husky's on the pop which has up'd the mileage to 32 million.

the smell's still good though

I was thinking this, probably the worst car to ask about too.

i saw the picture, you looked confused like you needed the next instruction

i was going to say, "get paul to do it"

there is one really crude way of doing it though... power the motors manually via 12v, this could work if care was taken. you would need to get the right timing of powering them and also ensure they are turned off at the right time to prevent a prolonged stall of the motor. just have a switch box to activate them while the normal power feed to the motors is removed entirely. like i say, its crude and may end up looking like ass.

if it were a temporary system it would make it easier as it would only need to work on the day and not need to be a long life final product. still, it would involve a fair time on a roadster and a microcontroller to hand to program with the appropriate signal. its not a short term project tbh.

the idea is that the box is connected to the cig lighter circuit (or if i can be bothered i will wire in a permanent live with its own fuse) the regulator in the box provides a nice clean 5v supply to the usb ports. i then have a nice panel mount connector im putting in the cubby, the two are connected together by a bog standard usb cable. i also have a phono female socket in the cubby as opposed to a loose male cable. i will post more pictures when i get a chance.

only really rough pictures i snapped while doing this today, i mainly just wanted it up and running charging my phone on the bench today before putting it in the car.

ok, had a good look at the manual on my phone under the roof section. there is a separate roof control module, this module has outputs to the motors, inputs from various limit switches. most importantly; it requires the brake to be pressed, the ign to be on, the car speed to be under 2mph, the battery voltage is above 10v the speed signal is a pulse input which would need simulated, the brake signal also needs to be faked. this is possible but needs a payback module for the roof to be made, I don't have a roadster to develop it on sadly.

depends on what controls the roof mechnism; if has its own module and that just has a feed from the brake switch then you would just permanently ground or +ve that input. if it has a module and that module takes the CAN network message for the pedal press then its not going to be simple to simulate the message and it probably isnt possible. if it's controlled from say the BCM then you dont want to be messing with the brake pedal switch input to that module as it may be used for other purposes. the first step is to find out what controls the roof and work from there, fingers crossed its just a couple of relays and its **** easy

i meant i have 5V regulators available I had a play today sorting out my power supply for my phone, its on test right now and is looking good, will post up a few phone pictures of what i've done in a min.