Thread: 2000 Volvo S40 Liquid Cooled Car-pc

I decided to make a small worklog in here as this is the true forum for this.

I have the complete thing @ http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=207889

So if you want more details, you can just go to bit-tech.net and find it. I also have my other mods there.

Just a short background info:

I love to mod my computers. I have only one rule, and that is that it must be watercooled. From there the project will take a life of it's own.

My stationary is a neverending mod, and I also made a Watercooled Nintendo Wii that some of you may have seen online.

So when it came to my carpc there wasn't really any choice. As I live in Denmark, water is a bad option since we get -20 degrees centigrade in the winter. So it's going to have engine coolant running through it's vains.

But on with the pictures.

I started out with a standard Xenarc MP-SC3. This has been working great for a couple of years, but something new had to happen.



I have a couple of sponsors on this project;

Mushkin Enhanced hooked me up with 2 gigs of memory.

Centrafuse were willing to pitch in with a complete version with Western Europe navigation maps in!

Runcore helped me out with a 32GB SSD!

I made a couple of sketches of how the finished product would look, but this tends to change along the way.

Topless:


Top mounted:



As the renderings show, the front will be curved plexi. I made that with a piece of wood I cut and then baked it in the oven:



Top and Bottom plates roughly made in the CNC mill:





The Aluminum Front panel got started in the cnc as well:








And done:



Mounted, with a modded aircooler for setting up the pc, before moving on the watercooling:



Backplate done, and mounted. Fits perfectly! :



Top of the case finished, with a word from our sponsors:



The waterblock:






The reservoir parts done:



Most of the parts put in, just the pump missing:



I tend to mess up the pump when I mod it, and this was no exception. Broke 2 of them and have just received 2 more. But it DOES get pretty heavily modded...

The stock pump, look at the size! :



Aluminum impeller for the pump:



Impeller done, and mounted on the stock magnetic part:



All the parts for the pump:



Assembled:



I won 3rd place in MOTM on Bit-tech.net for this, and to hide the ugly green pcb, I decided to make a small plaque:


It had a scratch on it, so I made a new one. 

Filling the system was not fun… I had no room for a fillport or anything, so I had to drown the loop to get all the air out:


Filled:


Aluminum front mounted:



And with the top on:


Hope you like it! 