Alpine LCD & PS2 upgrade for my 8!
 

Here's a pix of 2 new buttons. The right one is to turn on and off my amp and the left one is for my led underbody and 4 new red interior neon lights, 2 under the driver and front passenger seat and 2 under each front seat.

here's the alpine moniter..... a little high but does not get in view of either driver or passenger.

pix of the glove box with the passenger's ps2 controller and the led underbody pattern control, 9 different patterns.

oops, here's the pix.

pix of the middle console where the ps2 controllers plug in..

The toggle is to turn on and off the power inverter for the moniter and ps2.

pix of the ps2 in the middle console where you can get to the trunk.

another angle of the ps2.

pix of moniter on.

pix from the outside.

last pic..... a different angle of the lcd screen.

Ewwww.. I don't like that monitor at ALL. It looks so out of place like it was an afterthought.

But cool idea.

Why?
 

Props for investing energy in getting all this installed - but I still don't get it why anyone would want a PS2 in their car.

When are you playing in your car? Isn't it easier to have the PS2 at home?

I guess not understanding the general idea comes from the fact that I'm likely a lot older than you... :)

Good installing... it is cool... But how useful is it if you cant have nativation or DVD player???

very clean install! with exception to the eyesore lcd screen.


It would have been great if you had NAV and hacked it so that you had access to the screen via a toggle switch. (Doable)

nice products and nice try, but horrible job installing it.

very nice custom shit

love it

Jeeeez you guys are kinda hard on him. Although I wouldn't really want it that way either I commend him for doing it and he CAN watch DVD's and play games when he wants to. That's more than any of us can do. I would bet that monitor can be removed too when he is not using it. Great job and probably much easier and cheaper than hacking into the Nav!! Love the access to the PS2!!

Hey KC enjoy it!! As long as you are happy that is all that matters. :D

you should look into getting one of the japanese case thingies..

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Thanks for the comments, good and bad. yes i can take the moniter off. watch dvds, play ps1 or 2, play a cd and play a mp3. The moniter has another aux. for a nav. system.

This is a temporary install for the moniter until i can scratch up a few buck to have a custom install similar to the the rx-8 with nav.

The picture really don't do it justice. it really looks better in person.

can you provide any links?

WHOA

WHO CARES IF IT LOOKS A LITTLE MESSY THATS AWESOME
(i am easily amused)

anyways, how much did it cost if u add up the lcd screem and the p2s and anything else that was necessary for installation?

id like to put a ps2 in my car also

Hehe I like the DVD & PS2, looks nice! Would a been great back in my University days in the long *cough* Hot boxes *cough* me and my buds use to do in my Civic to have that set up! Now I just get hyped just sitting in the car! Anyways, nice job!

Thanks for the compliments, everything was pretty cheap bec. I bought everything from e-bay/the internet and save about 3 to 4 hundred dollars. For example, the alpine moniter is retailed on crutchfield for 400 dollars but i bought mine in ebay for 175 bucks! you can't beat that! So after everything is said and done, i probably spent about 450 to 500 dollars for everything installed.

cool
please keep posting future mods

Will do! Hope you do the same...... less than 2 weeks until the borla exhaust comes in!! I CAN'T WAIT! i'm still not sure what kind of intake to get.