Alright, I have a question on how to get the Xbox signal to make it over 3' wires.

I don't know what kind of wires the Xbox uses or the possibilty of this, but could you use amplifiers to make the signal travel further? I know telephone companies sometimes use "coils" to allow signals to travel further, which are basically amplifiers. Sorry if my question is stupid because I don't know much (if anything at all) about wiring.

 

You should get the XIR chip for the XBOX remote to turn the box on and off with the remote.

search google for "XIR remote" . . . they're like $4

 

That's part of the beauty of the install, I had the power control buttons moved to the center console, the pics didn't come out very well but I literally had the front panel removed with the buttons to the center console, so I don't need that chip. Thanks for the suggestion though

 

??? not sure what three wires you are referring to but basically an Alpine Aux apapter was installed that had 4 imputs for RCA's. 1 for the TV tuner and 1 for the Xbox and 2 extra for what ever I decide to do next. Hope that helps

 

Is there any kind of wire on the market that amplifies signals (has an amplifier, not the audio kind)? Maybe this could be used for the Xbox relocation.

 

Great install. I can't imagine what that all cost. What is the material they used on the inside of the sub enclosure? It seems to work well with the neon glow.

 

Wow thats clean. Was there any problems with airspace in the speakerbox?

 

What linux software are you running on the xbox?

 

It looks like your shifter **** is not on straight...

 

I fixed that problem, I installed a new shift ****. But to answer your question, yes it was crocked. They lost the gold bushin during the install and it wouldn't lock into place. I already had this other shift **** before the install just hadn't installed it until now.




That is MDF sanded and painted. They did a great job

Thanks, not problem what so ever. The box is actually pressure sealed. It had to be because of my requirements of how I wanted to see all the way through the box and I wanted plexiglass in the back so I could see the magnet of the sub.

None yet, still experiementing. I barely got the xbox modded in time for the install so I hadn't had all whole lot of time. Still trying to figure out how to copy whole DVD's to the Xbox so it's in one file, instead of a bunch of file. I got it figured out with the games, just not the DVD's yet. If you know please tell me know

 

Nismokid,
To be honest I am not quite sure what you are asking. I think you are a little confused about something. There is a lot more that just extending the RCA's, you still have to run IDE cables and power cables to the drives themselves. The RCA's is the easy part. Hope this helps.

 

Damn...thats sick!!....

 

Thanks,

I was able to get a better picture of the power on/off buttons.

 

That is fantastic!
I removed my custom PC and I was thinking of replacing it with an Xbox of PS2. It looks nice and clean.
Thanks for the pics and inspiration.

 

How did you get the xbox cdrom in the dash like that?? That is sick!!!

 

Thanks. It's a double DIN so I just used the second DIN for the Xbox. All the cables were just extended. Don't try anything longer than a 36" IDE cable, wouldn't work for me.

Thanks man. Hit me up if you have questions. Why did you remove your PC?

 

I think that's what nismokid was referring to, what did u use to extend the IDE cable... i'm in the process of doing pretty much exactly the same thing you did in your dash in an A4 dash and i need length so i can have a location to stuff the actual xbox. what components did u upgrade on the xbox (like what size drive and what mod chip), i'm doing dual drives so i can burn music and dvds from the car also.....
Also you said you can park in your garage and FTP files, did u use a wireless card and how did u hook that up.... sorry for the long post

 

Well done. The power on/off buttons are a beautiful touch.

 

Sorry for the delayed respone, been on vacation with no internet access which killed me.

As for extending the IDE cable, I don't really recommend it, my boss fried his motherboard trying. Just buy a 36" IDE cable. Again I tried a 48" cable and it didn't work for me but I didn't have a lot of time to test. 48" wouldn't recognize the drives.

The HD is a 120 GB, but can support up to like 4 terabytes now so basically buy as big of HD as you want. The dashboard on the Xbox is evolutionX. The mod chip is the smartX Click here. I like the chip, go with soldered instead of solderless defintely. Go to Xbox scene link to read up, a lot of info on that site. The wireless card is the Xbox wireless adapter. It has a G radio (capable of up to 54K as appossed to a B radio only capable of 10K) and I have a G wireless router. I actually have the microsoft router and I am very pleased with it and is the same price as linksys.

Hope this helps answer some of your questions and let me know if you have more.

 

Thanks man. If you only knew how much grief that caused me and the stereo shop, at first it didn't look like it was going to be possible but I just kept stressing to them we had to come up with a way to move those buttons. With the mod chip you really access to both buttons, the bottom button boots into the mod chip, the top boots like a normal Xbox. Not only that, I had to have access to eject the DVD rom tray as needed.