As soon as I can get another 2 sleds (Rio Customer service e-mailed this week and said "in a week or so"), I'll install them in the WRX (delivery on June 16!) and a component box.

For the component box, I found a not-so-cheap (~$30) aluminum project box at a Seattle electronics outfit called Radar Electric. It's about the size of a VCR (they have a bunch of sizes) and is open on one side (top or bottom dependoing on whether you're in north or south hemisphere). I'll probably have it powder coated in black before final assembly.

Many thanks for the pictures of everyone's projects. I have been noodling how to build the connections for RJ45 and power and was particularly helped by the l bracket pics. To take that to a further level of craziness, I was thinking about embedding a RJ45 plug/cord in a custom-molded epoxy collar which could then be drilled for bolting (adjustable, even, with slots) to the L bracket. Also, I wonder about doing the same -- mould an epoxy collar for the power connector and bolt it to the sled -- but could I get it fixed in a way that would reliably dock (Hmmm...mold a little docking collar to glue around the hole???).

I think I read in another post that you could fool the Empeg into believing it is on "home"/AC power be putting a dummy plug. If so, I could still wire it up through the harness and maybe use a dummy plug that is a little thinner -- easier to dock but still separates the contacts inside the Empeg. For the Mark 3 model (that I am only inventing in my mind) a nice feature would be a dial or DIP switch on the sled that is wired back to the connector and which let's you assign a unique ID if you have multiple sleds -- home=0, car=1, boat=2, car2=3, etc. and allows persistent settings for each sled.

Jim