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bumfluff
Hi guys, I’m bumfluff aka. Michael Bamforth. This is my first mod, Napier 07, which is a homage to British Racing Green which was first used by car company Napier in the early 20th Century as thanks to Ireland for letting us host a car race there due to our laws at the time limiting speeds to only 15mph.
Anyway, here are my designs (which I have previously posted here under a different project name):
Ok, so you can see what I am aiming for with my mod and the case that I am going to be modding is the Coolermaster Centurion RC-534 as it fitted in pretty well with the designs and also, as it is my first mod I wanted to find something pretty cheap so that I wouldn’t feel too sad if it ended up in teh dustbin. However, there are plenty of cheap cases out there but not so many with a quality brand like Coolermaster and I am not bothered about PSUs anyway because I will probably want something that won’t just blow up on me. Anyway, here it is: (sorry about pic quality as I am limited to a camera phone atm.)
Right, time to start modding…. My first (and so far only) port of call is the front bezel and sorting out the fan hole that I want, as you can see there is currently no place for the fan. So, I took out both the HDD enclosures to allow for easier cutting of the chassis when I get round to it. Now then, the front bezel actually comes in two parts a plasticy bit at the back, which held the now non-oncase power and reset switches, and then the brushed aluminium plate which you can see. Once I had cut away all the power switch stuff I realised that if I wanted to mount the fan on the outside of the chassis, rather than it being in the way of the HDD enclosures, I would have to cut out more of the plastic stuff. This I did and now the fan sits flush behind the aluminium. Now I will show you the front bezel with the hole cut out of the front:
And here is one with the fan behind it:
So, that is all I have done so far, next stage is to do a bit of filling work on those rectangles to complete the circular hole and then work on the turbine look of it. The fan sits very close to the edge of the aluminium so it remains to be seen as to whether I not I can fit some sort of mesh to it, otherwise it will have to be left as a death trap to passing mice.
Thanks for reading and hopefully will update soon,
Bumfluff
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