Sup. I saw some lcd's on these forums and i think it looks clean on the 5th gen accord. What i was planning to do if i had money is add Lcd's some where on the car, then take apart a xbox and place the parts everywhere. planning to put the cd rom drive right underneith the hu, so you can change disk right there. I would out the on/off, eject button somewhere next to the the cd rom. Then put the controller ports in the glove. and the rest hidden. It would be looking hella clean. But is it worth it. At one point i was planning to put a real computer in it, but i was thinking that is too much. A bunch of critism made me forget about that idea. It would be interesting to hear what you guys think about my Xbox idea.

 

I am currently doing that very install into a BMW 318 TI.

There are a few minor things you may want to consider while doing this install.

Chip the board with a Matrix chip
Upgrade the BIOS (EvoX is a great call on this)
Upgrade the hard drive with a 120 gig drive
Switch out the DVD ROM drive with a slot feed drive to eliminate the tray with the stock DVD drive.
Upgrade the IDE cable to a 133 round wound cable for flexibility and the max length is 36" from the mother board.

In doing this basically you will be pulling the entire XboX apart and removing it from its case all together, although in the Accord this is unnecessary as it will fit in the Accords glove box as is.

You may also want to extend the wiring from the control ports so you can locate them at various points but just so you know they are grouped together as sets of two and seperating the two will result in some issues.

The eject button and the power button can be remote located rather easily also....but you will need to extend the wires from the back of it to the Motherboard and if you end up switching out the DVD drive you have to do some custom wiring to get the new DVD drive to accept the eject controls.

As for powering it that is simple a power inverter takes care of this. In putting the chip and the upgraded BIOS in the XboX you will no longer be able to play XboX Live but you wil be able to burn games to the drive so you can just rent them, rip them and return them resulting in faster load times and smoother gameplay. You can still link them together for multiplayer games as normal but you get the added benefit of being able to play both MP3 format as well as movie files in DIVX format which is something you can't do otherwise.

 

hey whats up nightshade,
I was reading up on the little insite that you give about chipping the xbox. Is there a site that i can go to, to read up on this kinda stuff. I would love to chip the xbox and shit. Also how would i go about burning the games to the harddrive that sounds freaking awsome can you get back to me when you can thanks bro much appreciated

 

I think I sent you a reply to your PM about this but my PM is acting screwy.

So here goes

Here is a tutorial page as to how to crack the box open and it covers some chipping and other modifying as well.

http://www.xbox-scene.com/tutorials.php

As for the burning of games to the drive it is a feature built in to the new BIOS' "dashboard" (interface or GUI) which gives you the option to copy to hard drive.

As for the game play it is sweet loading from the HDD instead of DVD based for speed reasons and smoothness. It also allows you to remove the time and space consuming "cut scenes" from the game which makes most games take up a mere 650 Megs of space in total as opposed to the ungodly amount of space it would normally take up.

 

i've gutted and modded my xbox. it is very possible to extend the dvd-rom drive and remote mount the rest of the system. all it is is an IDE cable attached to a mother board.

 

:wopics: pics please????

 

i already have a chipped xbox. I have 20 burned games. it's tite. i don't play all that much though. But i can if i have it in the car, that would be nice

 

let's not make this into a xbox hacking forum. But you guys get the point. I know it's so easy putting it like that. At most you need to do it extend the cables. Nothing much there. and you got plenty of space behind the dash.

 

You post some weird stuff bro. You start the thread with: "I wanna take apart an x-box and put the parts everywhere" and now you say let's not make into a xbox hacking forum? LOL I dunno man.

 

haha. What i mean by taking it apart it so i can place parts to where it suits best. I just want people talking about mod chips and everything else if you know what i mean.