Its been close to 2 years that i've been without a stereo in the car, after someone stole everything. They left the door speakers and tweaters I had installed. I had bought a 200watt amp at some point after they stole my other amp, but never bothered to reinstall a stereo. Well I got to thinking....I have an amp, a laptop I use for the haltech which can store several gigs of my mp3's. So what I did was take the amp and plug it directly into the same wires that were there for the previous amp, went to radio shack and bought an rca cable that had an adapter to go into a headset jack. Did some minor speaker wiring to the amp after I figured out which wires were the speaker wires in the center console. Then simply plugged the rca cable into the amp and the headset end into the computer. And WALLA I now have an mp3 player/cd player. Cool thing is I can use anything with headphones and plug it into the amp, like a portable cd player or mp3 player. I also have some emulators on the computer so I have nintendo and other **** on there along with a large selection of movies. And the hole where my stereo use to be, I took a 400 watt power converter and installed it there, wiring it to the ignition so it turns on with the car. So I have two outlets to plug in whatever I may want (circulating fan comes to mind since its so damn hot) or the charger for the laptop. I am in the process of making a nice panel for the outlet plugs and other gauges I already have there. Whole project cost me $9, since I already had the amp and power inverter.

 

Sounds cool man. I thought about doing something like that.