he does not said so only ... the reason is that lowyat.net may not view by local member but also foreign visitor...

thus to avoid language understanding problem ... we must keep the info posted in english... else how to share with others ...

btw, uncle how's the progress....

thank you for explaining it to him..

Wokeh! Just came home from week long vacation. Noticed a lot of spam while I was checking up while sipping pina coladas by the beach. Didn't clean up much coz GPRS access costs a bomb. I'm back now so NO MORE SPAM! Updates will b up 2moro. 2night i go tidur 1st.

Wokeh. Just edited the pix. Here come the updates on Red Hot Chilli.


After cutting the side window I moved on to the top blowhole.
Top panel, masked up, marked n ready for chopping.









Drill drill drill.










Chop chop chop.












After cutting the blowhole I removed it from the case. Here's the rivets being removed.










Top panel removed.









I then proceeded to remove the bottom panel too. It has to b removed so I can paint it. Here's the case without all external panels. Naked Chilli.







More updates as soon as I edit more pix.

wah.. now i understand how difficult to cut the blowholes
yup u r still too fast too furious

Hehehe. Now u know how mirror shine edge blowhole on metal panel n glass edge blowhole on acrylic looks like.

off topic

hehe.. erk.. btw i forgot to told u to lower a lil bit the blowhole for gc. it seems now both gc don`t operate at same temp. gc1 - 47C , gc2 - 63C

This post has been edited by serez: Dec 22 2006, 04:47 PM

Poor Ian, it's less than a week till Christmas and he's still busy modding away The sacrifices he'd make just for casing, if that's not dedication, I don't know what it

Ouch, that casing ain't no Shark anymore. Doesn't look anything like one with all the innerds showing

uncle ian..may i know wat template u used to draw the top blowhole?

I dont use templates.

out of topic..
uncle if let said.. i wud like to mod this shark to a BTX-style which is up-side down.. i m curious does the left-side panel fit to the right side of the casing n vice versa..
10q..

lol, free hand? some kind of artist? or just plain old compass?

This post has been edited by deric88: Dec 24 2006, 02:28 PM

compasss la bro. free hand kinda tough dont u think?

I'm afraid the BTX mod wont work on a Shark.

Oh my God !!! Shark is being cut ? Good Job ! Dude !!!

Phew, what a hectic week it's been with xmas shopping n the celebrations n all that. Anyway, got down to editing the pix n here we are with more updatesss..............

After stripping the main chassis, I moved on to stripping the front panel. Y is it always lidat.......... the cases that come in for full paintjobs haf the most complicated fron panels that need plenty of dismantling. So many parts n screws to remove on this panel. Here we go with the dismantling.

Stock panel. Note the original Shark logo still there at the top. Also can c the Thermaltake round logo at the bottom. Later u'll understand y I asked u guys to take not of the logos now. Hehehe.














Done. The front panel is totally dismantled.









These r the aluminum ribs that hold the shark gill together at the bottom of the front panel. It's a matt look kinda finish.










Here it is now after sum polishing. I've polished it to a mirror shine so that it shines nicely n hilites the gill area coz the gill area on the front is gonna b all black.




More updates coming riggggggggggggggggght up

After totally dismantling everything I moved on to painting. I didn't take any pix while painting coz it's the paint room is full of paint fumes n paint dust. I dowanna damage my camera with all that stuff in the room so I jsut took a pix after all the painting is done.


Here it is. All panels painted with 8 layers of paint.











Here's a pic of the side panel after sanding. Then I whipped out the machine for a good proper mirror shine. I wasn't happy with the shine I obtained with this panel n also the window panel though. So after this pic was taken, I washed n degreased it. Resprayed another 3 layers of paint. I'm still waiting for these panels' paint to harden while I do the rest of the case.









The top, bottom n front panels haf been nicely polished to a mirror shine. Now it's on to the assembly of the main chassis.
Rivetting the panels back on in this pix.

wow... nice bloody shark.... btw y the interior not paint wan de...

Nice shiny aluminum interior man. Y wanna paint over sumthin that's so bling bling? Usually I paint interior is for cheap metal cases with the ugly grey paint inside. Then I will repaint to matt black. But alu cases all leave the interior alu is nicer.

yowzah....another awesome mod by u know who...