electrical help? convert AC to DC by replacing transformer? home stereo into truck.

[cstanley]

i picked up one of these iHome undercabinet ipod radios at sam's club the other day for a little less than $40. I would like to gut the e-tronics out and put them in the truck. it's very cool because it has a powered "drawer" that extends to hold an ipod (or my iphone, as you can see.) according to my measurements, this bit of drawer will fit perfectly in dash, where the ash tray resides. with a little tweaking and good adhesive, i think i can glue the front of the ash tray onto the end of the drawer, and it will disappear. depth is close, but it looks like it'll work.

all components are independent, so the display, control buttons, and drawer unit are all separate and can simply have extra wire length added to place them anywhere. very cool. it also has a very good remote control.

my question is, can i pull out/replace that power transformer to hopefully be able to have native DC power input? I don't want to run it off a power supply.

in the pics you will see the unit open, closed. images of the lid removed showing the power transformer are in the following entry. also seen are the speaker boxes (partially removed.)

i plan on wiring the speaker outs to an amplifier and decent speakers...

anyone have any ideas?