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JoeKamel · 11-29-2005, 10:05 PM

BB2K: You may wanna check the hitachi endurastar drives if you do want an HDD, otherwise go with a normal notebook and a manual on/off switch perhaps? Limiting yourself to like 4 gigs, not really the best option in the world.

As far as where to put it, thre's a lot to be said for your trunk if you're willing to do some nutjob wiring. Probably the most popular place after in dash. Looking at your dash, you may want to consider an in trunk job. OBD is going to be hit or miss for you because OBD-II wasn't required until I think 1995 or 1996. Up until OBD-II, the comm. protocols were pretty proprietary and limited. Check out what your car is and what you can do with the OBD its running.

As far as the alternator issue, howmuch do you think you have to spare? Like I said, a 150W Opus is going to eat about 13 of those amps, and if you have an audio system in there, that's probably eating a good deal of it as we speak. I don't know how much a higher amp alternator will run you, I know for my strat, it's going to run about $400, but it'll be worth it because there's a lot more electronics I'll be able to do.

11-29-2005, 10:05 PM	#10
JoeKamel Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Da NBH Posts: 68	Re: PC in a car BB2K: You may wanna check the hitachi endurastar drives if you do want an HDD, otherwise go with a normal notebook and a manual on/off switch perhaps? Limiting yourself to like 4 gigs, not really the best option in the world. As far as where to put it, thre's a lot to be said for your trunk if you're willing to do some nutjob wiring. Probably the most popular place after in dash. Looking at your dash, you may want to consider an in trunk job. OBD is going to be hit or miss for you because OBD-II wasn't required until I think 1995 or 1996. Up until OBD-II, the comm. protocols were pretty proprietary and limited. Check out what your car is and what you can do with the OBD its running. As far as the alternator issue, howmuch do you think you have to spare? Like I said, a 150W Opus is going to eat about 13 of those amps, and if you have an audio system in there, that's probably eating a good deal of it as we speak. I don't know how much a higher amp alternator will run you, I know for my strat, it's going to run about $400, but it'll be worth it because there's a lot more electronics I'll be able to do.