Project GT40



The inspiration for this mod is the almighty Ford GT40. All car lovers will know this legendary car. It's called the GT40 coz it's only 40 inches in height. It's a very, very, very small n compact car with a big engine in it. It was the Le Mans Champion of it's day. Anyway, I based it on the GT40 precisely because of the main feature of this car which is small body, big engine. In my case, it will be small case, big engine(hardware). I'm gonna pack this lil case with superb hardware including 8800GT SLi. It will be a super duper portable uber rig.





Project GT40's sponsors-






















Wheeeeeeeeeeee! I've been waiting a loooooooooooong time to start this new project of mine. It's taken some time to get all the hardware together. There's lotsa stuff I had to find n buy, stuff from the different sponsors, sure took a while since I received this looooovely Silverstone SG03 to play with. Anyway, as usual I shall start by saying a big huuuuuuuge thank you to my sponsors Silverstone, Edifier, Inter-Asia Technology Sdn Bhd, Team Group, Arctic Cooling, Zotac and E-Devices Technology Sdn Bhd.

This mod is going to be based on the new Silverstone SG03.








Here's how the case looks like. It's a really, really, really tiny case. The dimensions are only 200mm(w) x 360mm(H) x 312mm(D). It's like a shoe box actually.



This post has been edited by ianho: Dec 21 2007, 04:13 PM

Let's take a look inside the case now.


A shot of the internals showing the 2x120mm fan intake.






Here's the case all stripped out.





Well, that's it for the standard SG03. My plans r to paint it in the same powder blue color as the Gulf GT40 with orange accents. Maybe, just maybe, a BTX style mod too. I'll hafta remove all the rivets to c how the case can be dismantled b4 I decide on that.



1 thing I've decided on is the side intake. I will base the new side intake on this.








Haih. Connection went off again. I give up. Will upload again 2moro.

This post has been edited by ianho: Aug 17 2007, 04:11 PM

wow ~ what is ur plan? care to share? at least post up some of ur skecth......
*aiyo ~ when i saw the GT40 car, i thought ur gonna make a custom case designed like that car... haha

This post has been edited by easternC: Jun 21 2007, 10:44 PM

If only they do the side mesh on both sides...

sifu ianho gonna show his fantastic work again...

I thought GT40 is 40 anniversary?hahahahaha....
Uncle Ho,nice job u will have there

wonder how the GT40 will implanted to tis casing..

uncle mind what mobo use inside ?

heheheh. A very special mobo. It's the only MATX SLi mobo in teh world. Took me a while to find it n buy it man. At 1st found it at canadian online shop but they dowanna send to Malaysia. In the end found it in Singapore. I will post the pics of hardware going in later 2day. I still cant access my Photobucket. Blardy gay connection I got.

maybe some racing stripes on the case?

wah...........mATX SLi setup..........

uncle, is time to switch to flickr

It's not the host. It's jsut the streamyx at my place has been really bad of late.

but photobucket really hving a sux connection...

izit a EVGA NF4?

This post has been edited by zzloo: Jun 23 2007, 09:13 PM

Yup it's the 1 n only EVGA NF4 SLi. Pics of the hardware coming right up.

waaa cant tahan ed la.... wan to see it

Yaloh uncle fast fast upload la

can't wait to see the outcome ....sifu

Wheeeeeee. Here comes the hardware update.



Received this lovely box of goodies from the sponsors. It came fresh from the recent Taiwan Computex.









Lotsa stuff from Arctic Cooling n also Team ram. The Freezer 64 Pro in the box is for King Kong. The rest will be used for GT40.







Here's all the lovely hardware that will be going into Project GT40.





This is the spec list-
1. Silverstone SG03 case
2. EVGA nf4 SLi MATX mobo
3. AMD64 X2 3800+
4. Asus SATA DVD drive
5. Silverstone Olympia 1000W PSU
6. Arctic Cooling Freezer64 LP HSF
7. Arctic Cooling AF 12025PWM fans
8. Arctic Cooling MX2 thermal paste
9. 2x1gb Team Xtreem Cronus 500mhz DDR ram
10. Maxtor HDD.
11. 2x Zotac 8800GT 512mb AMP Edition
12. Edifier E3350 speakers

This is gonna be 1 heck of a powerful MATX rig with all that inside. Once again I'd like to say a big huge thanks to all my fantastic n ever supportive sponsors. Without them this Project would cost a nuclear bomb.


I'm still sourcing for parts to mod the case. I'll need to get sum air scoops n such. I'll be sure to update about my parts sourcing adventures as I get the parts in.

This post has been edited by ianho: Dec 21 2007, 05:18 PM

nice stuff

really a big bomb if without sponsor