The console in my car was pretty hacked up. the heater conmtrols and the head unit were mounted in the console. My conputer is going in the console, the controls and ports will go in a panel where the head unit is along with the laptop cd-rw drive. The problem is I would have to mount the stuff in the console and then put the console in place and hook everything up. Not too easy when the console covers the places where the connections have to be made.

My solution was to build a subframe for the console out of some steel tubing. It will hold the heater controls and the control panel in place without the console. I'll be able to hook everything up and test it, then the console will just go on top of everything with a few screws.





It took a little time to make this but it makes the computer much easier to install and service.

 

Hey looks great and strong. What kind of computer are you putting into it very instered in what the final look looks like.

 

Here's what I'm stuffing in there. I just got done lowering the floor a little and I also reworked some of the ductwork for the heater to make room. I just picked up a soundblaster AWE64 Gold ISA sound card off ebay for cheap. it's pretty nice, it has RCA and SP/DIF outputs. i'm working on a shutdown controller right now so the computer will boot and shut down automatically when I start the car, when that's done I'm installing the soundblaster and then I'll install the whole mess. I just need an amp now.