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I decided to spray the inside black until I ran out of paint.
As you can see, I need to touch it up a bit more
Here's how the radio came to me
I cut the Mopar logo out
And added a coat of flat black to it. I will be riveting it to the drive cage later
I mixed up some Loctite and smeared it on the Mopar logo
Then pressed it on the back panel
The bezel is next. I want to mount the radio in the dual 3.5 inch bay
Looking like this
But first I have to trim it to fit the bay
And that's where I got my first Cuda related injury
And it fits!
And then with the face plate. I still have to touch up the sides
I painted the bottom
And I painted under the hood scoop
So on to the hood pins
After protecting the surface I decided on a good place to mount the hood pins
30mm seems like a good spot
The pins had to be cut way down because they had to go into the case without interferring with the
DVD drives
Once I drilled out the holes, I added a single screw to each. These screws were once part of the
radio and now are another touch of the real thing
And filled it with Loctite
And I added the pin. I'll let it dry overnight
I ran the cable through
And that's that
I received my 130mm fan
I decided to not use the temp gauge and mount a small photo frame that will scroll through 200 or
so Mopar images
It'll go here
So after a few days of thinking I decide to merge my media reader/display with the photo frame
The LCD display is garbage. When I turned on the computer it blinked and beeped again and again.
Even the numbers were rubbish. So, I decided to merge 3.5 inch frame and the bay device together
And this is how it looks
Here it is mounted
I loaded about a hundred photos of Mopar/Dodge and set the screensaver to play them
And I remembered that my brother-in-law watches TV and movies on his aging laptop, so I removed
one of the DVD drives and added a Blu-Ray ROM. The Radeon HD 4830 has a DVI to HDMI adapter so with the use of a quality monitor
he can watch the latest and greatest in Hi-Def
I've thought about this for a while and decided to start signing my mods. They are, in fact an art
form, so it makes sense to sign them.
This is on the inside left panel
I want to mount the power supply
But need for the screws to be flat black too
I'll be installing Vista Ultimate on the hard drive soon
I've put in most of the components so far
Here's a look with the panel on, minus the video card
While the silicon dries I installed Vista Ultimate
I got the Logitech S520 mostly because of the gray bar along the bottom that I will be painting
orange
Krylon calls this color Pumpkin Orange
The bar along the bottom does not come off, so I taped it off and painted it in place
And the mouse too. Fortunately the mouse does come apart
So far, so good
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