As previously stated this Mod is for my In Laws. Since CLOWNED is complete and a present for my mom, I thought my In laws should get a mod too, to replace their 500MHz Gateway. They or my wife have no knowledge of this project. Thus far I only have the following components: (1) 80GB Seagate HD (1) AMD Opteron 165 (1.8GHz) Dual Core (1) Green Aspire X-Discovery Case I will act as though the top of the case is the hood. Since I have limited ability in making a good looking scoop, I will be mounting an engine in the top of the case. The engine is the Dodge 426 Hemi. I want to tie in a 20mm fan that once cooled the Northbridge chipset to the crank. I'm hoping it will spin the engine fan without makiung it fall apart, but I won't know till I try. Here's some concept pics of what I'm looking to do. I used Google Sketchup and then did a print screen to save them as .jpg's. The concept pics aren't final. I still need to add the stripes to the concept pics. And so it begins again. Join me on another adventure.
Here's pics of the components. I said earlier that I had a Seagate 80GB, but was mistaken; it's a Maxtor 80GB Diamondmax 16. Here's the modem. And the Opteron Today I got the bee decal And the SuperBee emblem
I got the case in the mail and as you can see it's not nearly as bright of a green as the website showed. But that's great, because it's even closer to the color of the car! Also, I tested the engine spinning idea with the use of an 80mm fan and it just doesn't have the torque to spin it. There's more ways ahead.
What about making the analog temp thing in the front to a RPM counter, you can use it as a CPU load counter only it stands RMP instead of %? Like in tha cars.
I was thinking of tying it into the HD activity light with RPM, but I don't know if it'll work. Here's some updated concept pics.
I took the windowed panel off and disassembled the fan and grill. As you can see they added this nice little piece of mesh too. I won't be reusing the grill, but I do like the mesh. Another nice feature is the removable mobo tray. The right panel has an awfully convenient place for the "HEMI" window. And as you can see I've already begun the painting. Here's the paint I'm using. A nice flat black. I also cut a small angle to show the bend of the stripe. The stripe on the left is done. And I sketched out where the HEMI window will go.
I've been meaning to mention for a long time how nice it is to have this mini spotlight. I marked off the width for the right stripe. It has to be identical to the left. Then I roughed up the paint.... ...and slapped it on. Looks good, again.
Looking good. Just an idea with the tacho/HDD activity guage. Why not hook it up with a capacitor tieing from the +ve lead to ground (I think that's right, check in electronics forum). If you use a small enough value, the guage will hover around the redline (or where you determin maximum arc to be with a resistor) but will slowly go down when the activity stops, just like an engine winding down.
I'll see, I'm still playing with some ideas on that. It'll be one of the last things I do. The motherboard I got is the DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D is mine. I still have to get the Video Card, Memory, Heatsink, DVD drive and the front panel LCD. Here's the right side cut. I got the logo. It's 6 inches in diameter, the case is 8 inches. The logo here is yellow, but it doesn't matter I just need the black parts. I'll cut away all the yellow and slap it on, then clear coat over it. Just like the car.
I popped out the drive bay covers and removed the front glass. Then taped off the front panel I painted the bay covers separately Then painted the vents. After it dried I made sure that none of the vents was clogged. Then removed the paint tape Lastly, I slapped the covers back on.
the second side panels stripe looks like it needs touching up in the corner but apart from that looking good. Good choice of colors. *have you considered doing the "knight rider" mod on the two perspex side rods?
