Chill-  Sounds like a bad ass ride!  i am a big fan of the G8's. 

I'm glad they continued that platform with the chevy SS

Chill, sounds like a sweet car, better get some pics up when you get it.

Was this him, this was his website? Thats a sad deal there. Glad you were able to get the car if so. I'm sure the mods we done correctly.

http://www.grrrr8.net/

 

Congrats

Just need someone to hack the Raspberry PI to run off battery with a 2 second resume and I'm golden. *hopes*

 

The architecture doesn't support any standby / hibernation / resume mode. It's either on or off.

 

Boot time is going to depend on the distribution and sd card class. The latest firmware update has an option "hard float ABI" which will help with boot speed. Turning off system logging would help also.

 

As an estimate boot speed is going to be around 10 - 40 seconds. People seem to be getting the lower boot times ~10 seconds with Arch.

Rat bastards.  10 seconds in a car is an eternity.

Perhaps you could wire some relay so when you unlock the car it starts booting, and shuts off when you lock the car.

Ha, that was going to be my trick even on the Nexus.  Figured having it be awake when I get in the car would be sweet.  Difficulty here is that I don't lock it in my garage.  RFID here I come.

 

Just need someone to hack the Raspberry PI to run off battery with a 2 second resume and I'm golden. *hopes*

 

The architecture doesn't support any standby / hibernation / resume mode. It's either on or off.

 

Boot time is going to depend on the distribution and sd card class. The latest firmware update has an option "hard float ABI" which will help with boot speed. Turning off system logging would help also.

 

As an estimate boot speed is going to be around 10 - 40 seconds. People seem to be getting the lower boot times ~10 seconds with Arch.

Rat bastards.  10 seconds in a car is an eternity.

Unless of course you are referring to the time it takes to run a quarter mile.  Sounds like  a sweet car!

If they made a G8 in awd I might have bought one myself.

Rear is preferred actually, but not really do-able in my driveway.

Hell this week my wives XC90 didn't make it up with new tires and the winter mode engaged.  It goes through almost anything too.

I'm glad they continued that platform with the chevy SS

Indeed, wish they would just bring the commodore as is though.

 

For instance, this was the trial crossover (can't find a final pic) for the full rangers in my office.

 

Obviously the cost of those in passive is WAY more than you are spending on your drivers.  Doing this active with the processor you will finally use in your car would be of huge benefit.  Without the crossover my speakers are somewhat brutal to listen to.

 

Are you planning a headunit based crossover or standalone?  If h/u is a single din ok?

Oops, wrong thread lol

 

Either way I bet you'll see it...

Yea I saw it.

You could also just leave it on and have a switch for killing the power to monitor. Look at power consumption between the pi and an rfid reader.

RF reader would turn on the car power off the car battery.  Have a "valet" switch killing it when I am at the airport or whatever.  Was thinking of adding it anyways since the car doesn't have a keyless go option.  Of course by my method you'd not need a key at all anymore and I can just have my wallet.  Figure a flat credit card would be the best key.

I don't like the autolock as you leave feature though without actually pushing a button.  That part I need to figure out.  Would also allow me to RFID my truck so the house would know when I am home and adjust the lights/temp/music appropriately based on the time of day.

Ah I see. Sounds like a fun project if you have the time for it all.

You're making me want to order a pi and the reader I was looking at along with some other goodies... But I don't have time for it, damn kids.

Dropped my car off this morning at the body shop to get the bumper fixed after rear-ended. Insurance company had over a week to approve the estimate and rental car but nope didn't do it until I was at the enterprise. Then I had to deal with some BS since I'm not 21. Finally left with a Chrysler 200, shit is so slow.

Yuck I feel bad for you having to drive that thing

New glasses are the Flexon memory metal frames, pretty darn light weight.  

New glasses are the Flexon memory metal frames, pretty darn light weight.  

Are those the ones that go back to shape if twisted?

Details!!!

Ported heads, Fast 102mm intake with a Nick Williams 102mm throttle body, custom cam, 60lb injector dynamics injectors, dual 255lph fuel pumps, full Pedders Track 2 suspension system, every bushing swapped to urethane, BMR control arms, Gforce1320 axles, Gforce1320 driveshaft, Camaro SS rear pumpkin with a Trac Loc differential and 3.90 gears. DOD delete, FTI 3600 stall and there is much more that I know I'm forgetting.

who built it?

G8 is almost the same thing as the GTO
 

 

 where did you find it?