Quote: Originally Posted by
nasa 
I would like to clean up my Accord trunk... Specifically, I am looking for ideas on mounting my CarPC in there.
where is your current carPC mounted/installed?
in
my previous system/installation I had my laptop/docking station mounted to an MDF shelf that sat on the floor of the trunk (amplifier on the bottom 'shelf' with the laptop on the top 'shelf' above it).
later on, to save space I hung a metal shelf from the rear deck (it wasn't actually a shelf, it was a steel cover from an old horizontal desktop PC case) from the rear deck. this saved alot of space but unfortunately it got so hot up there (when the car was sitting in the hot sun) that my laptop would overheat and shutdown. I left the 'shelf' there and now I use it as a general storage shelf
neither solution was ideal, and I never really wanted it in the trunk but at the time money was tight so I didn't want to spend any money on a new system so I used what I already had. the laptop/DS was too big to fit anywhere else, so it had to go in the trunk.
I just replaced my old laptop with a Intel mini-ITX system in a
small aluminum case from Mo-Co-So. this case allows the motherboard tray to be installed normally or upside down in the case, which gives you a few different mounting options (including hanging it from the rear deck or mounting it to the side or seat-back).
this was much smaller than the laptop/DS and could easily fit under the passenger seat. so that's where I installed it. now I don't have to deal with the heat issues in the trunk or the cable extensions / long wires. do you have any other mounting locations you are considering or are you only considering the trunk? (and if so, why?)
