The John Deere Mod

[Ichbin]

The suspense! its killing me!

/dead

[Slatter]

wondering what you plan on doing top the case

[Drum Thumper]

I'm planning on installing a fan and making a cover for it using some actual JD parts--prolly either a breather lid or a exhaust pipe lid.

But Ma Nature needs to cooperate be4 any of that can happen lol.

[jdbnsn]

I like the progress so far. I know you already have plans in mind but I couldn't help but notice the shape of the tractor in your sig would make a great model to base a mod off of...

[Ichbin]

Love the design of it.

Is that the waxy love of crayon?

[NocturnaL]

Nice man. Those leds look like theyll be awesome

[Drum Thumper]

I like the progress so far. I know you already have plans in mind but I couldn't help but notice the shape of the tractor in your sig would make a great model to base a mod off of...

I've kinda been toying with that idea off and on in my head for about the last day or so--the more I think about it, the more I might do it. It'd be some major bondo work (or not, depending on how I went about the top of the case).

The hardest part would be getting some curves goin on.

I do like your drawing, especially the triangle part @ the front of the case.

Going that route also brings up some very interesting tangents that one could take:

*Stealth the front
*Lettering on the side referring to the chipset
*Modding in a fan on the top to take advantage of a breather or exhaust

And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head, along with no window and kitbashing an engine (which would be really pimp, but I don't feel I've got the talent to do that...yet :p).

If you don't mind, I might use your drawing as a model per se and see what I can come up with freehand.

And then I shall go from there.

+rep for the idea, and as usual, double if I could since you got the ball rolling around inside my head.

[Drum Thumper]

Very rough plan, and some stuff will have to have some major creative license done on it:

Not nearly as neat as Jbd's, but I think it gets the general idea across. The breather intake will have to be put on the left side rather than the top and the exhaust will be moved to roughly where the breather is mainly--it seems to me that they are usually parallel on top of the hood, but that could cause some airflow problems.

The lettering could also prove to be....interesting. As will that window.

A little bondo, some metalwork...this could happen. I was planning on surprising my parents with it, but dad's got all the cool toys in his shop...

It'd also give me a place to do painting and whatnot.

And the plot thickens...

[jdbnsn]

The fan controller is a nice touch, would be awesome if you could make the dials out of clear lights like in your sig (maybe look at childrens toy trucks to kit-bash) and throw in some clear LED's. I considered adding an exhaust pipe along the rear/side and left it out out of laziness. But after seeing yours it hit me, would be a perfect place to hide water reservoirs, and you know what else? That from grill could be made quite easily out of a watercooling rad. Good luck, this thing is gonna be sweet!

[Drum Thumper]

Watercooling. I find that funny as I'm doing this for my parents, and if anything were to get w/c'd, it'd be my system first.

Not a bad idea, but perhaps in a different mod.

So I was goofing around in sketchup and came up with this lil nugget:

Again, nothing like your drawing, but it was kinda fun to actually try to draw in that program.

What I wouldn't give for a copy of AutoCAD right now lol...