so i was bored recently waiting on all my goodies i ordered to come in so i decided to update the carputer...some of you older members remember my last one ....custom molded a touchscreen monitor into the double din spot to make it look completely stock...then fabbed up an entire pc to fit inside a cd changer case i have about 10,000 songs on it and about 3,000 music videos it has WIFI and GPS and will do pretty much anything a regular PC will do...it worked ok but there is always room for improvement......


the old setup






this time around got a new faster motherboard, better RAM, and a much better power supply and i am trying to fit things in the small case a little differently

here is the beginnings of it but its still a work in progress still gotta mount the hard drive and run some wires




threw the front plate on



the back of the pc and a shot of the fan setup with one blowing in and one as an exhaust




all that is left is to mount the hard drive which is tough to do so it cant move at all then mount it in the trunk and she is ready to go again

 

The new SSD drives would be awesome for carputers imo. too bad they don't have very high capacities atm.

 

That looks pretty good. I love computers alot and would like to do something like this one day. To bad im super broke ATM so i cant even begin to look into this just yet.

Keep us posted on the finsihed results.

 

I thought about doing something like that, since I've built a computer before. Pretty sweet, hope you have an alarm system though.

 

Nice man, Iv always been a fan of these car PC's. I put the screen in and thats about it lol. The crinkling around the edges is theremovable plastic on the screen, it came out really nice.

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mill$civic:

Dude that looks pretty freaking sweet. I hope you finish yours off soon because it looks great.

 

well finally got around to doing a little more work on it redid the screen bezel my friend hit and craked it so now tats all fixed lol...also got around to mounting the hard drive which was complicated not much room left so i just mounted it above the motherboard....so hopefully within a few days it will be up and running again...

a little bondo work lol i hate sanding


once coat of black primer


the final setup of the inside just run some power wires and its good 2 go

 

Looks pretty good. I have 2 questions for you though.

1: What kind of Power Supply is that, looks like some special made one for Car Pc's

2: What kinda of OS are you running on that Car PC.

 

yep its a dc to dc power supply designed for cars it hoks up to the ignition waits for the car to turn on then it turn the pc on so if there is any voltage issues since the cars power fluctuates as it starts then when u turn the key off it powers down the system but itself....

and i run a modified version of xp that i made boots up in 10 sec.

 

Ok cool thanks for that info, if i ever decide to dive into one of these expect a PM ..