Project: [Storm] - 120508 - Pt.1

After a long time of being not so active in this forum i want to share our newest project with you, up to now we call it STORM.

We started a few days ago with this unspectacular big tower case (its not spectacular, but it has a removeable mainboard tray) which we got from ebay

Because its huge like a stacker we decided to build in some kickass hardware (we didn´t decide which hardware exactly up to now) with a big watercooling loop, 2 or 3 radiators (3x120 + 2x120 + maybe another 3x120) and 2 optical drives.

So at first we stripped the case down to its raw body to see how everything would fit and in which way we are gonna make the one or other thing....

then we made 2 small mounting brackets out of some alloy stripes which we use to mount the radiator on the bottom of the frame. This was necessary to prevent the radiator from falling down on the next image :D and it prevents that the radiator could be shaked out of its position when moving the case.....

as next we bend some alloy stripes into the right angles so that we could mount the 2 optical drives with them on the outside of the case....
beside that we also bended some of those stripes to hold another radiator in front of the case, then we painted everything inside white except the radiators they get a fresh black paintjob...

The Top of the case also gets a first cutout

one of the last things we could do up to now was to build a first water reservoir which will be attached directly to the pump to prevent it from sucking air....and to make the filling process a little bit easier....

I think that has some real potential. Nice work so far. Ther eis one thing that boggles my mind and i cant quite seem to wrap my finger around it. With such a monster case, why are you externally mounting your hardware? There should be more than plenty of room in that case for everything you mentioned.

yeah it looks good! nice cooling potential:D

thanks a lot!

@ j-roc... you´re absolute right....it´s a monster and normally there is enough room for a lot of drives.... but in this project i want a totally clean upper part (only Mainboard and Gfx visible) everything else should be mounted in the lower part.....the hard drives i´m going to use will be watercooled and needs some room for the cooling blocks....so that we decided to attach the optical drives on the sides to save this space...later when the projects is finished they will not be visible....but thats another step which will follow later on....

Wow, you have been away for a while. I loved A-51, can't wait to see what ya come up with here. Welcome back!

thanks a lot jdbnsn!!

today we cut the sidepanels....first we cut the complete panel in 2 pieces

Then the both upper parts got their cutouts and holes so that we can mount a 2x120 mm radiator on each sidepanel. One of the sidepanels additionaly gets a few more cutouts which will be used as small windows....

beside the cutouts we also cut out some acrylic parts in shape of the small windows which will be placed on the other sidepanel....

For the inside we prepared a first cover which will be placed in the front part of the case, it will cover the pump, the small water reservoir and nearly all cables which will be needed for hdds and opt. drives....(atm its not fixed in its position that will follow later)

As last step we prepared a frame of alloy stripes which is screwed to the radiator on the front of the case

Looks killer so far! Good work!

This looks sweet! I like the side mounted CD drives.

The bare case looks so good in white.. that's awesome. I totally want to do a white case now.. :(

thanks a lot!!! it´s always nice to hear when others like your own work:D

today we build another radgrill for the radiator which will be placed on top of the case (another 2x120mm), after that we painted both in a plain black so that they will bring in some contrast to the white.

For the inside we build another acrylic cover which will be placed on the floor of the top part. Then we drilled a lot of holes in it to guarantee that the PSU can pull air through it.

the white acrylic is really making this look good! is white,red black that color scheme your gonna go with?

Great start mate. Excellent work, keep it up.

OH MY WOW thats frigan cool good work lots of work already keep it up

thanks a lot !!!!


in the last few days we could´t work much on this project because of the marriage of my brother (he is working with me on this project)
but yesterday we made a little progress so here it is :D

at first we cut some Plexi Pipes (100mm + 60 mm diameter) so that we can use them for the real water resevoir which we will put in the lower part of the case, beside that we also made a top and bottom for it

then we made a side part for the inner cover

we also made 2 covers for the DVD Drives which we will mount later

Can't wait to see that res.

This thing is gonna have some insane cooling!!! LOL :)

Looks wicked. I like the custom radiator grills. They look really cool.

thanks a lot !!!


in the last days we made some progress.....

first we made the last radiator / Fan Grill which we will use later, after building them, we put them in place to see if they fit in the way we want....

then we cut a small plexi stripe and drilled in 20 holes for LED´s, later we build more of them....

after that we cut out the first part of the water reservoir stand, i think tomorrow we cut the second one....

as last we prepared a part of the outer skin of the mod....therefore we cutted 32 plexirods in 25cm length so that we can use them later.....

The side rad mounted nicely. Nice work.

that's some moddin' right there! keep it up!

-CT

P.s. Who's we??

he and his brother ;)

This mod is sure shaping up nicely! Very Interesting! +Rep
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thanks a lot !!!:up::D

@ CT it´s like Froop already posted, we is me and my brother, we do a lot of stuff together :D

@ Froop danke schön :D

today we made some further progress, at first we made the 2nd holder for the water reservoir and put it in place for a quick test....

after that we made a plexi circle which will surround the fillport of the rez...

then we also made the first parts of the case feets...

after that we started to build the upper part of the front, therefore we cuttet a thin piece of wood in its raw shape and then we put a thick layer of building foam on it.......after everything dryed out we begin to give it a better shape...but it´s only the base for everything what will come later on.....

This is looking really cool.

thanks a lot!!! :D

in the last days we put on the first layer of bondo

then we drilled all holes in the water reservoir and make them perfect for use with G1/4" waterplugs

and we decided where we´re going to mount the SD Card Reader....

This looking out to be one sweet mod....keep it up !!!

this looks hawt

Nice work.

thanks a lot!!!

today we just build a few water reservoirs...

a good friends was in need of a new reservoir, because his old was cracked in the middle and he couldn´t use it anymore....
so we built him a new one out of some plexi pipe.....beside the rez for our friend....we also prepared a few for us and finished the first one

beautiful work...

hanks a lot!! :D:thumb::rock:

yesterday we have started to cut out the lower sidepanels so that they fit on the frame without getting in touch with the optical drives....
so we made a fast sketch of the cutout....

.... and then started to cut it out

after that we started to finish the main reservoir, therefore we drilled some big holes with the same dia the inner pipe has and put everything in place so that we can glue it together step by step....

looking SWEET dude! keep it up! you make me wanna make resevoirs:D

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Originally Posted by p0Pe

looking SWEET dude! keep it up! you make me wanna make resevoirs:D

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I agree 110% with pOPe.

Thank you guys!

today we used the pre cutted wood parts and build a small framework out of it....it will be placed under the case so that the radiator on the bottom can catch enough fresh air....

beside that we glued the water reservoir together and made a small test if everything stays dry :D:thumb:

I like those res stands. Nice work on the case base (lol that rhymes haha).

this is gonna be ONE KILLER HUGE mod!... did i +rep you yet? if not here we gooooo (mario voice)

thanks a lot guys!!! :D

In the last couple of days we´re working on the PSU....after we test installed it, we wasn´t happy to see that there is not much room between the water reservoir and the PSU....

so we thought why not put the PSU half outside of the case half inside....
therefore we made a bigger Cutout then the Standard PSU Cutout...so that the PSU can now be moved through the hole .....

after that we needed a new mounting for our PSU, so we did a little bit recycling and reused the parts we cutted out from the side panels. We cutted them in shape and bend some 90° Angles out of it....they are screwed to the mainframe of the case....

then we bended some alloy stripes in a U-Shape so that we can attach them to the PSU and the 90° angles we already attached to the cage.....

as next we´re going to finish the new PSU mounting and then we want to start the building process of the opening mechanism for the lower sidepanels.....

once again: nice! :D

keep it up m8

wow the psu mounting idea is alot like mine and it looks killer here to +rep for thinking like me and for a cool mod!!!:P

very cool. starting to get glimpses of where you are going. gonna follow this one.

+rep for thinking "outside" the box...