Maseratis are powerful, stunning, fast and everyone knows it. What they are not however is easily unnoticed. Not always the best when you're letting your Gran Turismo really stretch its muscles. That's where a radar comes in.

This customer came in to install that precautionary system on his Gran Turismo Sport. After all, there's no such thing as too much security when you drive something this attention-grabbing, right?



Parts Installed:
Escort Passport 9500ci



Now the most fun of radar installs for us is the challenge of using the car's own design to hide everything. We never want these systems to be obvious or distract from a single view of a vehicle. So we go to all lengths to figure out the best place before we even touch the car.

Mock ups

Option 1



Option 2



We get into the fuse panel to find a spot for the radar control module


and the center console to access the cigarette lighter wiring for a power source


We solder and cover with heat shrink to prevent having to cut any factory wiring


Reinstall the wiring and we're done with this part


GPS Antenna installed above the fuse panel


This bundle of wire is the excess from the GPS. Think they gave us enough?


Excess wire ended up being a repeat thing on this particular install. Since the speaker would only be a few inches from where it plugs in, we needed to trim a few feet of audio and power wire before installing the speaker.3




All installed


For the controller, we like installing these on the sides of the center console. It keeps it discreet but within easy access to the driver.


The rear shifter installed above the license plate


The wiring travels
Removing the carpet to feed it through the trunk and into the interior



Into the interior


Reinstall the carpet


Once in, we use the carpet to hide it and run it all the way up the side



Recycling last years calendar to test "fit" the bracket



Test fitting the real bracket now


Clean the bracket up and the radar detector is installed.


Time to install the laser shifters



To show what part of the shifter would be behind the grill, we took it out of its case for a good visual. The metal rectangle to the right is the laser sensor, which will not be blocked in any way. Only one of the eight LED laser transmitters will be blocked.


The bumper with the shifters installed




The finalized display, ready to rock




And with all that, this baby is done, ready to go back to owning the streets with style and now security too.


For more on this build, visit the gallery here!

 

nice....

I have the exact same system on my ferrari. I'll post some pictures of it later today.