2008 Impala SS

[WQLU507]

Finally got around to washing and waxing the Impala, so figured it was picture time. The equipment is pretty basic:

Uniden 996T with a RH-96 and Deluo GPS unit with hacked together cord
Antenna (center) is a Motorola HAF4017A whip painted black with PlastiDip to match the two Wilsons.
Harvested the black spring and actual NMO base from a Larsen 800mhz pigtail style antenna (because it was black) HAF4017a whip was a perfect fit.

Toughbook CF-52 on a Jotto Desk mount with USB GPS for MapPoint
(powered by a DC-DC power adapter, no inverter due to whine in stereo)
Blackberry A2DP stereo bluetooth adapter into AUX port on radio for iTunes from laptop or iPod.

Verizon UML290 LTE data card with two external MIMO antennas
2x Wilson 304203 antennas (far left and right)

Motorola Droid RAZR navigation dock (kinda hidden behind wheel) mounted on a ProFit ball mount using moto power adapter.

All 3 NMO mounts are from Motorola HAF4017a kits.


Had a hard time finding a place out of the way to mount the RH-96 so I ended up mounting it under the Jotto. I'd love to convert the car to a column shift so I could put in a full console and a few amateur / GMRS radios, but I'm not brave enough to tackle the project lol.

For power I ran a 4 gauge fused lead from the main power junction to the trunk, into a chargeguard and out to a fuseblock. The chargeguard is set to 15 minutes after IGN off to power down. Haven't had a single dead battery since I installed it (my previous vehicle, a police pkg intrepid, was a different story LOL). All power for the TomTom, moto phone dock, radar detector :-X, laptop, scanner, etc. runs through the chargeguard. Only use the factory (always-on) power points to charge the iPod now and again and to keep the Globalstar GSP-1600 charged every month or so.

If anyone has tackled converting an Impala from console shift to column shift I'd love to hear from you!

 

[ScannaMan9]

Nice, compact setup!!

 

[ramal121]

Nice placement for scanner head. Everyone notice that you can put your elbow on the armrest and have a steady hand for either the keyboard or the scanner. Sure you may have to glance down for an instant, but without your hand bobbing around you can do a lot by feel. Nice.

The dock looks a little close to the gearshift, but if it doesn't hit and you're good with it, fine by me.
Even the carpets are vacuumed. Looks nice.

 

[WQLU507]

Thanks ramal! The shifter just clears under the desktop, but I still wish I could just do away with it and goto a column shifter :-\

 

[Rt169Radio]

Nice looking setup,its interesting how you put the scanner head underneath the laptop.

 

[qubix]

Very.. very.. Nice!

Makes me want to install the same in mine, but I live in the city and they break into cars here for gum left in the open. I can't imagine what they would do with an empty laptop stand.

 

[b7spectra]

I like the set up, but I like the EMT tag even better! Ours doesn't look as good!

 

[Dann]

Looks Great.

 

[russellmaher]

Very nice install. Neat and clean!k

Russell