I've been working on this for a while and finally got all the parts together that I needed to start assembly. Please keep in mind that I am not finished, excuse the little hiccup as the lcd rises, but I don't have the actuator mounted yet. It does work great in both directions. It's a bit noisy, but I plan on insulating around the motor to help that. I will also have a series of toggle switches at the bottom, line driver/eq, and the other big hole is for a 7" android device and I plan on having it dock-able. I tested the line driver with my android phone, and the sound is surprisingly pretty good. I also upgraded to polk audio speakers and amps.



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Thats sick. Nice work bro, post pics of final product. And also are you talking about that android tablet?

 

ur a crafty lil ****

 

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Thanks man I just wanted to see if I could pull this off and keep it looking as stock as possible. I'll be updating in the next few days.

 

These labels will be placed above the rocker switches at the bottom. I had them made at gaugeplates.com. Jon, the power to be, did a fantastic job at fabricating these for me,

 

so back to my question, are you talking about running a tablet powered by android?

 

I like it

You can probably make the shaft more compact where it is going into
another shaft like a antenna so you can have more real estate behind the dash

 

pretty neat

 

This is really really cool.

Can you make it so the screen doesnt go so high above the opening so you dont see the lift brackets?

 

Thanks guys,

Yes, you will not be able to see the brackets when I am finished.

 

Nice!!! Can't wait to see it all finished up.

 

Can you make one for me and will this support 7" monitor

or post a DIY

 

Nice work. Will the actuator be that noisy?

 

who else has a string symphony that plays to open their lcd?

 

Man, I hope not, I didn't realize that those little things are so noisy. I'm planing on packing around the actuator with some type of insulation.

Quick update,

 

Very cool.. Sub'ed

 

very nice!! I just got my wife a 7" android tablet for christmas. Cant wait to see how you rig this all up!

 

Too bad you can't see the gauges behind the screen...

 

Yeah, kinda sucks I only have view of the left most gauge. I'm planning on only using it as a backup monitor. But if I do leave it up, ill be installing a software program on the Android device called "torque" which plugs into the obd2 port, so ill be able to display the hidden gauge info if necessary.