Hello everyone, my name is Mike and I happened across this post looking for Antec 900 mod ideas. I have been modding my Antec 900 with a work log with lots of pictures and descriptions over at the mod nation forums. But I thought I would post a few pictures here to show what I have been doing with my Antec 900 case.

First off it great to see that there are several people here that like the 900 case. Seems like a lot of people don't like the case for one reason or another. I loved it the first time I saw it so I bought mine from NewEgg with a discount and a rebate. Anyway on the the mod's. I am only putting a few pictures in because I have so many. You can just look at the index of the folder for more pictures or visit the mod nation forums and view my work logs.

I really liked the look of the 900 so for this mod I wanted to keep it simple and still for the most part keep the case looking the same. I had a certain color scheme in mind and I wanted to change the window on the side. My other hobby is high powered rocketry so I thought I would use that for the theme and I call it Fly-N-High. The mods consist of repainting the entire chassis two colors, changing out the switches with Bulgin switches, front case blow holes with the stock grills behind the panel, adding a handle and the biggest mod, moving the power supply so the cable go through the motherboard tray and not out in front of it. The main reason I did that is I what a really clean wire job where you hardly see any wires at all. This required me to take the PSU apart and rotate the board 180 degrees, remove the old mounting nuts, weld in new mounting nuts, cut a hole in the side of the PSU and fill the old wire loom hole in the front. I am using a brand new Corsair TX 750W PSU to handle the workload of the PC. One thing I did not want to do was cut several holes in the motherboard mount tray to run wires either.

This shows how the PSU should look with the wires:



The actual Corsair PSU with new nuts welded in:



Filling the old cable through hole with fiberglass:






As for the side panels I ordered a new right side panel and I used the other to cut my logo in the side. So if anyone needs a brand new Antec 900 windowed side panel that has never been used (still has plastic wrap on window) I have one for sale as well as both drive chassis without the fan mounts. I cut my logo in the left panel using a jig saw and dremel with a reinforced disk with a lot of filling and sanding.


Here is the side panel with the logo I am going to cut in the side:



Here is the panel with the first part cut out:



The next cut outs:



Completed cut outs:





For the front panel I used a piece of 1/16 satin aluminum kick plate used for a door. I found it at The Home Depot for $14 and this would give me enough for two panels if needed. Well I needed it The first panel came out ok but the circles where not perfect and I did not like the switches on the front plate and I decided to move them back up top where the original switches where and cut a new front panel.

The first panel:



The second one which came out much better:



With self etching primer:





Next a little work on the top plate for the handle. I got a nice spring loaded handle that would lay flat inside the tray that I would never use for anything else. I did have to use some of the aluminum plate to go between the top plastic panel and the top of the case as well as underneath the top panel to reinforce the metal and load weight the handle mounting points would carry the weight of the case. Wooh I hope that makes sense. Anyway here are a couple of pictures showing that mod.



Here is the handle:



The bottom plate with the holes drilled:



And the plates that go between the plastic top and the metal top case plate:





I have not finished this project yet, I just started painting this past weekend and I still have a lot to do. However I am on the down hill side of the build which is good, the wife keeps asking when is this going to be done.

Paint pictures:







Here I am starting to put the case back together.