U guys must be thinking I've gone mad! So many projects at once. Anyway, Project Triton is what I've been doing since I'm still waiting on parts for Project Hypoglossal n King Kong to arrive.



Well, let's get down to Triton's story.

Triton arrived as a plain jane classic Lian Li case.
This is how it looked like inside, the 1st time it arrived at my doorstep.




This was the 1st phase of modding Triton. I redid the wiring totally n cleaned up the case exterior. The exterior had a lot of stains built up over time with usage. I cleaned off all the grime n the exterior aluminum panels looked good as new again. The rig was then returned while waiting for parts to arrive.






The parts haf arrived n here we are again with Triton all ready to be submerged.

1st thing I did was strip down the whole rig.





Time to mask up n draw the lines for the top window. U can c the terrible dogbite cut blowhole done by sum1 else. I dunno who but it sure was uglyyyyyyyyyy. Totally jagged n waaaaaaaaaaaay out of shape. It wasn't even round. Thank god we'll be cutting that off starting fresh with a new acrylic window n new blowhole.





Making sure the holes r punched nicely b4 drilling so the holes r exactly where I want them to be after drilling.

Top panel drilled n cut.






Time to move on to the side panel window. Masking n drawing. Decided to do a small window to hide the top part of the chassis where the Akasa Paxmate was previously applied. It's also for hiding the HDD cage area as 1 more HDD will b added n there's a whole lot of wires there so we'll just hide them with a nice lil small window just to show off the nice bits.






Side panel cutting is done.





Now it's time to cut out sum acrylic for the top n side windows. Here r the rough cuts just for fitting purposes. Straight edges, rounded corners n blowholes not done yet.



This post has been edited by ianho: Aug 14 2006, 07:31 PM

Sliding in the arylic to the top panel for a test fit.








Removed the acrylic so I can mark it out for the mounting screws n blowhole.








Cut cut cut









Top acrylic is cut n drilled. Ready for final mounting.



This post has been edited by ianho: Aug 14 2006, 10:04 PM

finish already??

ahahaha, yalor~ where's the conclusion

this guy aaa...energetic...from other casing to another casing, n another...
load of idea too i must say...maybe i shud send my case to be mod n learn from him

The case has been completed already, pictures only not yet hehe

me wanna see more pic la, hey man post some more, story not yet finish.

Uncle, do something like these for next mod ya...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.10/makeover.html

Updatesssssssssssssss.

Side n top panels done. Detailed work on edging completed. All that's left to do for the panels now is to fit the acrylic.







Prepping the top panel for acrylic fitting. Test fitting to make sure everything fits nicely n that the mounting holes line up nicely.
Don't forget that handy power screwdriver. With the amount of projects I'm doing, every little bit of automation I can use makes my work go much faster n my life easier.





Top window is done.




That's it for 2day folks. I need to go get sum sleep. More updates soonzzzzz.

This post has been edited by ianho: Aug 17 2006, 03:11 AM

Questions: how much is the work bench? whats the gold thing u use to punch the drill hole called?

The bench is only rm80. The Black n Decker version is rm300. I forgot what that gold thingy is called. I don't think it's available locally.

hey ianho, may i ask. What r u working as? Modding for ppl only? do u accept students? lol.. haha

Wah soo many projects now ,anyway Nice JOb!!

Uppity datessssssssssssssss.


Wokeh. Top window is done. We now move on to the top mount radiator install. As u all know, the Coolermaster Aquagate is meant to b mounted to the rear exhaust fan. There's 2 sizes of Aquagate. Aquagate 80mm n 120mm. For best cooling performance, we went with a Aquagate 120mm. Here's a pic of the water cooling set.






The Lian Li only has a 80mm exhaust fan so it wont fit back there. Anyway, I always mount radiators at the top for best cooling as it exhausts the hot air straight out of the case instead of recirculating the hot air inside the case. In this pic, basic install of hardware is done too. U can now c the top mount radiator.








The rig is now ready for the bling bling mods to the Coolermaster Aquagate 120. As u can c in the above pix. The Aquagate looks really boring. Black CPU block/pump unit, black rubber hoses n all. I took off the broing black hoses n installed sum nice UV reactive green hoses. Filled in sum UV reactive coolant too. Aquagate mods done n leak testing in this pix.

Any news on your DRAGON CASE?

For uncle ianho, u're really kudos...

really like ur aquagate mod

rawkin...as usual

Updatesssssssssssss.


Leak test went well. No leaks n water cooling system is running perfectly. Got down to installing all the remaining hardware. Hardware all installed in this pix.














Everything's done. Now it's all done. Time to get the side panel on to complete the rig.







Installed the fan grill to protect the top mount radiator.








Here r the final pix of completed Project Triton.







Look out for it in a local magazine soon. Hehehe.
N wil the real slim shady pls stand up, pls stand up? Come on in n show us ure latest pics of it at home Mr. Mavik.

Haha thanks mate for the great job

Let me go home and take the pictures tonight

Brother,
why don't face the CM Aquagate's pipes to upward ?

CM recommended us to on this way >>> (up or down)


but i change mine to this way >>> (left or right)


ermm...
i don't know how to tell you,
but hopefully you get what i mean lar

This post has been edited by ahpaul82: Aug 29 2006, 11:44 AM

Hehe. OK man. Show us ure bling bling.




I wanted to face the tubes to right but the RAM slots blocking the tubes. I can install with tubes on the right but then when wanna change RAM that time susah man. Coz the tubes ngam ngam sitting on top of the RAMs. So I put the tubes on the left so that I can make a longer reservoir tube on the left side n can hide the reservoir tube nicely on the left side oso.

Top side then the reservoir tube haf to bend back down. No good for bleeding bubbles. Bottom side, the tubes will touch gfx card. So in the end best layout was left side.

This post has been edited by ianho: Aug 29 2006, 06:58 PM

Ianho is a pro ..how much u charge for a simple casing modding?

Well, gimme a PM k? Let's keep the threads clean for showing off the mods n modding discussions only. All buying n selling activities shud be by PM oni thanks.

wen u wan do free de for me??

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