Home-made Liquid Cooling

[linnemeyerhere]

Check these out for mounting the rad.
Electric Fan Quick Mount Kit -- BimmerWorld Online Store

 

[LiquidSnak]

Actually four of those come with the transmission cooler, pads and everything. It also comes with a black hose and clamps, in case you don't have more tubing laying around.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Sweet I used these to mount an oil cooler along with a electric fan set up onto the stock radiator on my '72 Datsun.

 

[LiquidSnak]

What kind of Datsun? <.<

 

[linnemeyerhere]

240Z
Then and now !

 

[LiquidSnak]

lucky <.<

That's my dream car

 

[linnemeyerhere]

It's the first car I purchased back in '75, too many stories to tell about this ride. Safe to say I'll be buried in it or burn up in it and found at the bottom of Decker Canyon Road (google) with evidence of some powerslide off of a curve!

 

[toetag]

Hey LiquidSnak,

Probably out the question and not what your looking for but maybe this could enlighten you

DIY Computers: Mineral Oil Aquarium PC - Kits Available

Not much of a suggestion but just ideas.

Lucky

i have seen this idea before and love the thought of it, i just dont know if i am brave enough to try it,might build my own with an old motherboard i have lying around.

 

[Kipper]

Thought I would toss in this picture of my low budget WC setup, still looking for a better res.

Yea, some folks say I need to work on my LC skills and modding. LOL

 

[toetag]

Thought I would toss in this picture of my low budget WC setup, still looking for a better res.

Yea, some folks say I need to work on my LC skills and modding. LOL

how low budget?

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Nothing low budget here only the reservoir.

 

[Kipper]

LOL, yea, I found that picture on another forum and had to capture it. The guy was actually using it but need the paper towels to catch the drops of fluid.

I just tossed it up here hoping you all got as much of a kick out of it as I did.

 

[toetag]

LOL, yea, I found that picture on another forum and had to capture it. The guy was actually using it but need the paper towels to catch the drops of fluid.

I just tossed it up here hoping you all got as much of a kick out of it as I did.

indeed i did lol, my first thought would be to stop using the system untill the leaks were sealed, paper towels do not make for a good pc as the would in effect act like a blanket and therefore trapping heat underneath them and so kind of defeats the object of the liquid cooling somewhat don't you think? lol

 

[Lordbob75]

Yea, that is definitely worth buying one haha

~Lordbob

 

[LiquidSnak]

Well, the test runs being successful, I put it in my old system. After two days of liquid cooling, a pinhole leak developed, and I'm back to the drawing board on the heatsink. It might be better to buy a heat plate with all the leaks I've addressed on the CPU cooler. I thought a bigger one might work better, and it does, but until I come up with a leak-proof system, I can't use it. Here are some temperatures though:

 

[LiquidSnak]

Final update on this project!!!!

I dipped the whole heatsink in epoxy, and ground out the excess. Now I have a leak free heatsink, working pump, rad, reservoir, etc etc.

 

[Kipper]

Congrats, now to tidy everything up some and I bet it will look as nice as it cools. Way to go

 

[LiquidSnak]

The total cost of the project was just over 95 dollars.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

LiquidSnak,
What is your ambient temps on average? 15c is crazy good !

 

[LiquidSnak]

Ambient right now is 78 F. What does an H100 normally run at?