MoboMan's 97 chev astro cargo van

**moboman** · 10-16-2007, 10:29 PM

I recently started on my project. I have RAAMAtt that covers the floor and am starting to do the sides. I have filled the back doors, side door, and most of the holes in the van with great stuff expanding foam.

Other cars:
1971 Honda 600 (I have 3 parts cars if anyone needs parts

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2002 Olds Intrigue - Bose sound system, not getting replaced
2007 Chev Express - it has a Pioneer Avic-z2

To Do List:
Finish covering inside with sound matt
Install a computer monitor in custom console
Make permanent boxes to house rear speakers nicely
Install a deep cycle batter and isolator

Carputer specs: Intel D101GLY, 1GB RAM, Garmin USB 18 GPS, Samsung 80GB 2.5" PATA HDD, Samsung 5.25" DVD Burner, M2-ATX, WinXP Pro, Road Runner + Digital FX2

Current Stereo: JBL GTO301.1 II | Alpine MRP-F550 | MTX 12" thunder T5512-44 sub in a MTX BS112S enclosure | Alpine SPR-69C | Alpine SPR-17S | Legacy 1.6 Farad Cap

**moboman** · 10-16-2007, 11:13 PM

Stereo pictures:
Here is my almost finished amprack, currently in the basement

here is the amprack installed in the van

here is my sub, the grill is a spinner

Type R door speakers, they sound pretty decent.

Sound Deadening Pics:
license plate frame kit

first few sheets down

Duct tape covers over mat to keep the black junk off your clothes

Wheel Wells, they took for ever and look horible

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**moboman** · 10-17-2007, 11:57 PM

Tint was installed by Eclipse window tinting in Cincy, OH. My new camera came today, a Olympus stylus 820.

#35 on the front
Limo on the rears

**Dennis5587** · 10-20-2007, 03:29 PM

...am I seeing this correctly?

If so, awesome, don't mess this up!!!

**moboman** · 10-21-2007, 12:28 AM

Thanks,
I've put a lot of work into my carputer this weekend. I am still looking into a monitor. I do not know if I want to use a around 17-19" flatscreen in a center console or if I want to go in dash touch screen.

I have my carpc on the bench right now. I'm working on setting up the kx project right now.

**moboman** · 10-21-2007, 05:12 PM

I had my carpc in my car last night. It consumes about 2.5amps @12v. I was testing the gps reception and the sound blaster's ability to control my amps.

**moboman** · 10-24-2007, 04:07 PM

Here is my carputer, it is now built in the case I am going to use. The power wire coming out is for my monitor, monitor is a 17" Neovo. It runs on 12v. The power in is a normal computer power plug.

Assembled, ready to go.

Back of case:

Amps@12v, idle:

Amps@12v, playing DVD:

CarPC in van:

Movie playing:

**moboman** · 10-24-2007, 06:35 PM

Inside the case:

I had to make a place to put the power supply. What better spot than mounted directly above mobo?

2 holes needed to be drilled and tapped to hold 2 standoffs for the m2:

**moboman** · 10-24-2007, 06:37 PM

So what do you think so far? There is still a lot of stuff that needs doing such as building my center console and rear speaker boxes.

**moboman** · 10-27-2007, 10:22 PM

Today I added more deadening and put in a new piece of plywood.

Now I need to figure out where I am going to put everything now that I have everything ready, I need a layout.

Here is what it looks like inside now. (the pioneers belong in my Honda 600 as well as the JVC Head Unit, I am borrowing them because the Honda does not run yet.)