Improvements - Video Cameras Instalation

During the repair process that my car had about a year and a half ago, I decided it was time to make a couple of mods.
 This is a series of posts from that time.

Video 1 - Passing UPT Class5 cable from the front and rear of the car to the inside passenger seat.And then turning them into USB cable extension for the cameras.
Video 2 -Transforming a standard webcam into an infrared webcam. This is soooo very easy. The CCD inside a webcam is more than capable of interpreting infrared light. So capable that the lens need a infrared filter (the red glow you can see when looking into a webcam? that's the infrared filter). All you have to do is to remove this filter and replace-it with a normal light filter.
Video 3 - Testing the normal cameras.
Video 4 - Testing the IR cameras after tweaking
Video 5 - How it looks (everything I've done) in the end.
Video 6 - Final cameras and laptop.
Video 7 - Transformation of the X5Tech camera from powerleds to IR leds

 

UPDATE

I've updated this with a 360 degree 4K camera setup with night guard motion alarm and night vision. you can buy there for under 200 bucks on AliExpress... it's a no brainer

Improvements - VisionGuard 8000 Alarm Instalation

During the repair process that my car had about a year and a half ago, I decided it was time to make a couple of mods.
 This is a series of posts from that time.

Video1 - ShockSensor instalation and location as close to the car's strongest center point as possible.
Video 2 - How it looks (everything I've done) in the end.

 UPDATE

This was since removed and replaced by a custom made ALARM with Biometric lock for the ignition, and also house connection with accelerometer, ground distance, PIR and touch sensor. And that one, I'm not posting... it's made by me and not shared with others for one reason: the car is now un-stealable and an un-jackable :)

Improvements - AudioSystem / Speakers inside the rollbar

During the repair process that my car had about a year and a half ago, I decided it was time to make a couple of mods.
 This is a series of posts from that time.

Video 1 - Installing the SonyXplode crossover.
Video 2 - Relocating Subwoofer, amplifiers, alarm and GPS locator to the car's center of gravity.
The weight of the amplifiers + subwoofers + speakers are almost equal to the spare "bicicle" wheel and jack.
Video 3 - Speakers inside the head protection bars
Video 4 - Another layer of silicone on the speaker adaptor
Video 5 - Sculpting the adapter to a nice look and feel
Video 6 - How it looks in the end.
Video 7 - The speaker mounts

 

  UPDATE

Everything was removed for weight reduction. This is no longer my daily driver and Weight is not something you need on a sports car. 

Of it went to my friends Marco's 320D Touring. 

Repairing the S2000 after a aquaplaning crash

Over an year ago, in one of the worse nights I've seen to date, under heavy rain and with my tires quite used, I aquaplanned.
How did that happen? The infamous IC19 in Portugal has a bad design, worse pavement and even worse drainage. So, starting a downhill, left turn with opposite relevé, the car hit a bump and landed in what is best described as a 10mts wide river crossing the pavement. Evidently, it immediately started a drift into the concrete, hitting the concrete with it's front right headlamp. Bad things can always go worse, so the airbag sensor is located exactly under the right front headlamp, so they deployed, shutting down the engine and locking the rear wheels, leading to a spin motion witch then culminated with the rear right end of the car in the concrete wall.
The entire accident happened in low speeds as it was raining heavily...causing little damage to the body panels and no damage at all to the chassis.
These videos where taken during the car's repair at AUTOCAMBOTA.
Why did I repair the car at a Renault dealer? Simple:
1- this car is hand built in japan by a group of craftsman with over 10year of fine craftsmanship at honda.
2- if I was to repair it at Honda in Portugal however, it would be repaired by the lowest cost in the business (and ultimately lowest quality in the business). The same guys that do the oil change in the Honda Jazz!
3- I have good friends at AutoCambota, and that means assurance that a qualified craftshman will repair my car... and so it happened, with video proof.

The Foto-report from post crash to full repair

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That's it! ;)