Thread: Cooling Suggestions for custom box~!

i think the biggest suggestion is not to use wood. wood absorbs heat rather than disapaiting it.

temporarily, i have a full sized case mounted in my trunk with the mb in it. the nice guys at circuit city gave me a throw away unit (stock honda) when i got my satellite installed last weekend. i've gutted it and am working on fitting the M10000 MB in it. i've seen it done, but i've never done it myself.

if you're gona go with wood and a full size MB, you're definatly going to need significant airflow to keep the air circulating in/out of the box. i would guess that the fan noise would be noticeable at anything less than freeway speeds.

I would suggest exhaust on the top and intake on the lower fans, Seems workable to me.

Only additional comment I'll add is make sure that your exhuast system doesn't run down the same side of the car as your carputer will be mounted. The heat will radiate right thru the trunk floor.

Also, you could use a spare tire area, works really good, thats what I used in my first setup before removing it to sell the car.

Hey, thanx for all the suggestions..

DaRacerz, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by having my "exhaust system doesn't run down the same side of the car as your carputer" ??

The only reason I didn't have both exhausts on top, and intakes on the bottom is that I wanted to have the general air flow run across the computer, does this seem right?

Oh, and I spent alot of time cutting the wood, so I think I have to stick with it Also, I would've put the computer in the tire well, but I've my share of flats and wouldn't want to be caught w/o my spare, hehe~!

The car's exhaust system, the heat from you muffle will cause one side of the trunk to be hotter than the other, and if you bould your box right over top of it, it will trap the heat instead of dissipate it into the rest of the trunk making you cooling system work even harder.

hmm, that's not good, the side i have the computer is the side where the exhaust is... It points it down though... although I'm sure the converter itself gets pretty hot... well, my custom box is already built, so I'll just have to make the cooling system work harder.

Am I correct in my airflow thinking though? As in take air in one side (top and bottom) and out the other side? or should I have both intake at the bottom and both tops blow the air out?

maybe, another fan in the middle that blows the air within the box? (as in fan blowing across the mobo)

Personally, I would recommend having both top vents blowing out, but because you do have a white car, the body prolly doesn't get so hot, so its not that big of a factor as it would in a darked colored car. I just don't like how the air vents are so far out from the mobo, its not going to do too much good in that scenario.

As far as the car exhuasts, think twice about it. Do some test yourself. Cause the pipe itself will radiate heat. Drive around for 20 minutes and see for yourself would be the best judgement imo.

well, i haven't cut any holes for the box vents... so anything's still possible. where would you put the vents, and how could they be closer to the mobo?