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Car computer ebay deal

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Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
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1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
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Cool idea... but a $750 reserve  :rollin: sounds high.. for a piece of plexiglass and a power inverter... You could build a faster one for less I would think. Plus a smaller formfactor too. Why not just mount it all in the trunk? With a wireless mouse and keyboard it wouldn't really matter. So do I need to put an old P3 system in my tbird now.. lol
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7" screen. You'll need binoculars to see the icons, and a telescope to see the mouse pointer.

Hard drive. You're not even supposed to gently tilt a home system with the drive spinning. I'd love to see the head crash after a supermarket speed bump.

Mouse moves with hand movement.  Oops, I wiped my hard drive while shifting to 3rd.

Screwed to a plexiglass sheet. Doesn't plexi create a lot of static electricity? And we all know how much computers love static electricity.

And almost 700 people have looked at it.  :rollin:
Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.

1988 5.0 Bird, mostly stock, partly not, now gone to T-Bird heaven.
1990 Volvo 740GL. 114 tire-shredding horsies, baby!

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Reply #3 –
You could get around the hard drive thing by using a laptop drive - they're designed to withstand a bit of shock. Temperature would be a different matter entirely, though...
 
If I was gonna build an in-car PC I think I'd just get one of those Mico ATX rigs and mount it in the trunk.
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1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

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The screensize isn't bad considering its native resolution is most likely vga or wvga. From more than a foot away, text would have to be enlarged. Who needs to use it while driving anyways?

There are many ways to use harddrives in areas with a lot of movement. A common one is mounting it, or the entire computer, in a box with rubber/bungee type cables making the computer "float". DIY or commercial. My dad had to deal with this when he was looking into making his recording studio more mobile. Its effective and works well.

I'd never use plexiglas for a computer case, indoors or not. Who needs to see their computer anyways? (and I hate the fact that its almost impossible to find decent cases without windows now)
1988 Thunderbird Sport