new toys of the car
Friday, May 30th, 2008I’ve got some new stuff…
First I’ve put together a 250gb multimedia system for my car. It’s discussed in great detail over at one of the Acura forums, so I won’t repeat it all. And I first found it over at the legacy GT forums. The parts and totals (including shipping)
Vantec AVOX Jukebox Portable Multimedia $103.94
NBHD 250G|WD 5K 8M ATA6 WD2500BEVE $109.99
AV400CIGAR LIGHTER POWER ADAPT (500503) $33.34
MG-35 IR Receiver $33.36
TOTAL: $280.63
That will allow the playback of all my mp3s (many times over) and several DVDs on my navigational unit display. The unit will play DVDs directly by coping the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder, which is pretty slick. The above parts will let me plug it all in and store in the center console with some drilling or put it all under the seat (with some drilling) or just kinda set it in there. I dunno how permanent I’m going to make it.
To make it totally “extreme” I could add a Silex sx-2000wg to share that drive from my car wirelessly over wifi as a drive… that would be crazy.. I could part my car outside the house and copy music to it from inside the house making it so that I never had to unplug anything… crazy huh? That will be much later.. if I do it.
Matt helped me install the video cable on the back of the navigational display. He’s also obtained an Audiovox backup camera for me for about $70. We’ll install that after I get in the molex connectors. I picked up 5 of them from here. Why 5? We’ll screw up at least one 
I also picked up a Valentine One for $415 (after shipping). I’m not entirely sure that is the BEST radar detector right now, but it was at one time. So we’ll just go with that one. The Escort with the GPS in it was my second choice. That’s still even a little more expensive than the Valentine. Gone are the days of cheap detectors.. well they suck anyway.
Now.. did I have the money for all this? Ha HA.. well, ya know