Where do you all think would be the best place to mount an Xbox in a 2000 Supercab? I was planning on making a custom box for it to fit in just infront of the center console, but after testing the size of the xbox in that space I dont think there is enough room to mount it the way I want because of the 4x4 shifter. My next thought it to mount it under one of the flip up back seats, but I have a question. Would I beable to mount the xbox to the bottom of the smaller flip up seat located behind the drivers seat? I know there is a metal plate that runs along the bottom of it, but I dont know if it would be ok to mount the xbox to the bottom of it, or how I would go about it. The xbox weighs approx. 10 pounds. The reason I want to mount it to the bottom of the seat rather than sitting on the floor is to keep it off the carpet so it wont overheat and I also dont want people stepping on it when the seat is flipped up. If the seat can hold the weight, I plan on making a box the size of the xbox and mounting it, and have the xbox slide into the box. That way I can still remove my xbox when I want to use it in my house. So anyone know about mounting stuff the metal bar in the bottom of the seat?

 

If it was mine. I would consider a custom mount job. As you probably already know the Xbox is merely a computer motherboard with a DVD/ROM drive mounted in a pretty case with a few fans. If waranty concerns are not a problem for you I would take the Xbox apart. Mount the DVD drive in the dash, find a hidden location somewhere under the dash that you could cram the motherboard in then mount the joystick plug ins somewhere through the dash. If you don't mind losing the glovebox I think that with a little doing you could probably mount the motherboard behind that area but you would pretty much destroy all funtionality of the glove box in the process. However, on the bright side you would have one really sweet one-of-a-kind type custom install.

 

I'm not worried about warranty issues. I already put a modchip and a bigger hard drive in it. I never really thought of takin it apart and mounting it like that. But it seems like it would be hard to do something like that because I'm not too good at building stuff like that. I think I'm gonna end up mounting it in front of the console next to the 4x4 shifter. I cut a board to the size of that area and mounted my power inverter to the bottom of it. When I set the board with the inverter on it, it makes an almost perfectly level spot for my xbox. Now I just gotta find a way to mount the board and the xbox to the board. After I put carpet on the board of couse.

 

One thing to be careful about is that having the hard drive shaking around a lot will greatly reduce the life of the drive.

 

Rapture has a valid point there. If you don't mind a permanent mount you may want to consider isolating it from vibration. The mount I was talking about would not really be as tough as you think and people would have that "What the?" factor big time when you qued up a game using what appears to be a CD-ROM drive mounted right below your HU. The hardest thing you would need to do would be to build a trim ring around the drive and that would be simple.

 

If you can find a lockable laptop hard drive you'd be way better off in the shock department. If its not lockable the XBox won't boot its own dashboard (although you can use custom dashboards to load your games).

But your not gonna find any 120gb laptop hard drives for cheap!

(You can get a cheapo adapter to go from a standard IDE cable/4 pin power to the all in one connector on the laptop hard drive.