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You should find someone with a 33 GT-R to come and have a word with the bloke :-)

Your ISP will only release personal details for a court order. I asked them once for details about what webpages I had been surfing and they refused. BTW, I was looking at skylines and I found a nice one. But my PC crashed and I didn't have the page in history... I never found the car again (but I did get a better one anyway )

Unless you're in Victoria - lol!

Probably only site administrators.

Crap fuel economy I think... It runs rich

streuth mate! Actually, they need a wing on their roof, and one attached to each door...

If you have 2 weight sensors, one after the other and an object travels over the top of them, then you can measure the difference in time that the sensors were activated. And if you know how far the sensors are away from each other (30cm for example) you can determine the speed of the object. Speed cameras are a little more sophisticated than that, but it's generally how it works.

Champinco is right. There is also an extra plain vanilla dioide that is run in series with all the LED's. I have seen on 2 skylines where this has corroded out leaving the whole light-bar unable to come on. You should probably be able to bridge it with wire if you want, but the diodes themselves are cheap to buy.

Yeah, I always look out for the 3 lines on the road I've never had the balls to go over them and then gas it though. Anyway, that's really interesting to know. After some more research, perhaps you might be able to convince some sort of current affair show to run a report on revenue raising and the inaccuracy of the cameras Those people will whinge at anything

LAN party.. But I'd probably buy them if I came across them and had money at the same time..

:whackit: lol! That is so good!

To the left

Initial D, .hack//sign, or the radio. I have 12 cd's worth of initial-d music.

Initial D, .hack//sign, or the radio. I have 12 cd's worth of initial-d music.

The green wire against any black wire.

An x-box can't take nearly as much as a few amps. It's a mere low end PC. I think between 5 - 10 amps of 12 volt current. Anyway, how can a lack of current fry something like this? I was having a serious lack of current in my desktop and my soundcard and a hard disk stopped working, and my cd burner and dvd burner wouldn't eject anymore... It's working fine again now. I suppose it all depends on how much shit you want to add..

The only thing I can think of is ripping apart an x-box and measuring the outputs of the PSU with a multimeter. But yeah, you'll be doing something custom for the plug. I was looking at diagrams of the mainboards, and it seems there are 2 types.. Ver 1.0/1.1 with a row of 15 pins in a straight line Ver 1.2/1.3 with an ATX connector. I would not connect an ATX PSU to it though, 'cause you'd be almost assured to smoke your x-box. I couldn't find any info on the net about what ampage and voltage each of the rails on the x-box psu put out though. So you'll need to do a bit of measuring for the voltages. For the current, you'd just have to hope the PSU can provide enough, otherwise you may have to run 2 in parallel. Also, to ease the strain on the 12v rail, you could run power directly from your 12v source to things like your hard disks, etc. As I recall, the lower wattage mini-psu's main fault was their lack of power on the 12v rail, meaning you couldn't power 7200rpm disk drives with full sized dvd-rom's. This sort of relates to normal psu's anyway, with their 12v rail being the most limited in terms of current (i have to run 2 psu's in my home pc to overcome this - 800 watt psu ). Anyway, if you already have an x-box earmarked, I'd be looking around in it to try and measure the psu output voltages. As with a PC power supply, you should have at least the hard disk connected to the PSU before turning it on (or if you can't work out how to simulate a turn-on, leave the x-box mainboard connected and be really careful )

Hi, Just a thought about power supplies. I don't know if any of you are handy with PC's, but an X-Box is essentially a PC. And a PC is essentially a 12 volt device, as with most PC hardware. There is a mini-pc scene built arount the mini-itx platform that basically tries to fit PC's into the weirdest areas possible. I'm doing such a project, and others have built PC's inside their cars, toasters, life sized dolls, and PS2's. http://www.mini-itx.com is their main site. One of the items that you may find interesting are the power supplies available help in this quest. You can get some truly tiny PC power supplies that can handle variying amounts of output which themselves run on a 12v DC power source. An X-Box will need one of the higher rated ones because of the full sized hard disk and DVD-Rom. If you hunt around, you can find some that'll handle a PC with a few hard disks, usb devices, and a full sized dvd-rom. With one of those, you will need to also know what voltages the x-box PSU puts out. I imagine it'll be much like a PC, running from 12v, 5v, 3.3v, and a 5v standby. I can't think why an x-box would use the old -12v and -5v rails a PC power supply provides, since they're for old comm-port chipsets. If you could get it to work, you'll end up with a power supply that runs of 12 volts dc, is smaller than a postcard (and flat too), generates piss-all heat, and you won't waste all this power converting 12v dc -> 240v ac -> 12v dc needlessly (less strain on car electrics, plus less heat). Also note, you will not be able to use a laptop DVD with your X-Box. It has a specific control plug that allows the x-box to eject the tray and do other things. Only a few DVD Roms can be modified to replace an X-Box DVD-Rom. Hard disks will be no problem providing you prepare them properly. Any good X-box mod site will tell you how this is done. Any other PC hardware, such as USB hubs, wap's, etc should be either able to be run on 12 volts, or something less. In which case, you can probably look up how to make a power supply for it using voltage regulators and stuff. I found out how to make one of these to get a PS2 controller working on my PC, and it's not all that difficult. You just need to be handy with a soldering iron. You could always just get an inverter, power board, and a few extention cords to run around your car, but I think you can pull these projects off without even touching ac power if you do it right.

That photo shows a series 1 front end.

Sweet! Watercooled X-box in a car! You could replace the standard DVD-ROM with a laptop DVD-ROM, which will give you potentially more shock absorbtion, plus being a crapload smaller. A laptop hard disk would also be an interesting idea too, since they have to have a reasonable degree of shock protection. Plus you can pad it in foam without it being too large. There's less heat too.

Amen Well, I'd also probably sell it if for some reason I needed a sensible family car for a kid *cough*4dr r33 gts25t*cough*

We got a firewall at work. And I heard about blaster and how it transmitted itself, so I went to block a few ports... Pricks in the U.K. offices had given us the read-only password to it. 7k worth of firewall that did jack shit, compared to my freebie at home that blocked it all... U.K's still not blocking those friggin ports!

Well as I recall correctly from a comment made on a certain performance commadore forum, skylines are in fact more common than commadores. It was bound to happen.. Evolution and survival of the fittest dig @ commadore lovers>

@_@; I had a tabletop clip my last car... Luckily it was only minor, but it would have taken the roof off before anything else...

I have lightweight shockproof... It's pretty good