Crawl Space Cooler Build

[bigslappy]

here's the airfilters for DA beast ! $8 a pop ! & best of all no duct work involoved OR needed just RTV'ed them to some thin plywood ends & will screw them down with a weather stripping seal right to the blower openin's

& they are no wider than the steel box with both in place on the blower
with the deep filters i'll get Great air flow in & keep the dust & bugs out !


now on to the Baffle Mo pix coming ,let me get back to work ......

[Naja002]

Too Sweet! Great work, I am definitely enjoying this thread......

Keep up the Great work.......

[Arni]

hmmm why not one hole for one rad and after that second"room" for other rad? I think that will be more presure that 2 holes

btw nice project

[bigslappy]

hmmm why not one hole for one rad and after that second"room" for other rad? I think that will be more presure that 2 holes

btw nice project

on the wood mock up box .. I was getting more flow on 1 rad than i was getting on the 2nd rad ..
Reason >> the blower has a concentraded colume of air coming straigth out of it.......
... by making the box Thinner / Longer & the rads right next to each other & with a baffle to "break-up" that area of high pressure . I found i could get an even air flow thru both rads

[iboomalot]

the silicone will hold those Rads in place thus you can remove the metal straps if you want to.

[bigslappy]

the silicone will hold those Rads in place thus you can remove the metal straps if you want to.

I'm leaving the straps in as the whole end piece is now quite ridgit no flex at all to it & that's how i wanted it

[radaB]

here's the airfilters for DA beast ! $8 a pop ! & best of all no duct work involoved OR needed just RTV'ed them to some thin plywood ends & will screw them down with a weather stripping seal right to the blower openin's

Airflow any less with those filters?

[bigslappy]

Airflow any less with those filters?

have not tested yet but I use smaller ones on my WindTunnel build & those barly reduce airflow & these puppy's are way bigger

but I don't think i'll be able to tell the difference as they have a Huge surface area being pleted as they are , they are made for huge 4 bbl Holley carb's

[emuexport]

Excellent work. cant wait to see what sort of temps you end up getting thru this!

[Martinm210]

Very nice, I really enjoy this type of build log...great job!!

[MasterChiefElmo]

woot looking even better can't wait till shes done...

[[XC] gomeler]

Want to do something like this so I can watercool my cascade. When I own a house this will be an inspiration for me

[ripken204]

Want to do something like this so I can watercool my cascade. When I own a house this will be an inspiration for me

see this type of thing works for you guys in warm weather.
i couldnt imagine what would happen here during a NY winter.
if i kept my comp off then the water in the res would freeze, lol.
otherwise i would have some kick ass chilled liquid cooling

my plans for when i get a house is to drill a small hole in the wall just the right size to fit 2 pieces of tubing through, then i will have my pump, radiators, and fans on the other side of the wall.

then i could blast the fans as loud as i want for super cooling and still have silence in the other room.

[iboomalot]

Want to do something like this so I can watercool my cascade. When I own a house this will be an inspiration for me

something a tad easier to build

Iam looking at using the following





http://www.radacamerica.com/


I forgot to mention that Rad has the surface area of 4--Feser quad 480

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

woot this is a super excellent project grats on all of your success so far

[walshlg]

Thanks for all the great posting and pics, I know it takes a lot of time. THis is great work, carry on!

One thing I may add is that waterpumps always push water up more efficiently than they can pull water up. If you have a well, you put the pump at the bottom of the well if it is >15' deep. (FWIW at about 30' you physically can not suck water because that much vaccuum will cause it to boil at room temperature).

Q?-> did going from your wood box to the metal box make it noisier?

[bigslappy]

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Q?-> did going from your wood box to the metal box make it noisier?[/QUOTE]

NO CHANGE at all .... all get is a slight hum from the fan motor

[kevinbo03]

Ahaha! this is awesome. Though I do wonder just how big the squirrel is that had this in it's cage, And whether or not it made it into a flying squirrel.

Just one thing- No K&N Filters?

[bigslappy]

Just one thing- No K&N Filters?

I looked at the H&N stuff & was going that way till i checked price
almost 10X the costs of the Fram's & way less surface area

[Big_Daddy]

see this type of thing works for you guys in warm weather.
i couldnt imagine what would happen here during a NY winter.
if i kept my comp off then the water in the res would freeze, lol.
otherwise i would have some kick ass chilled liquid cooling

my plans for when i get a house is to drill a small hole in the wall just the right size to fit 2 pieces of tubing through, then i will have my pump, radiators, and fans on the other side of the wall.

then i could blast the fans as loud as i want for super cooling and still have silence in the other room.

Yeah, but so much for the wife's knitting room..

[ripken204]

Yeah, but so much for the wife's knitting room..

phh, her knitting room. i want speed and silence!
but of course to have silence that means its impossible to have a wife.. lol

[bigslappy]

well the cooler is done but for the TESTING ! in real time on a PC
I have to do assy under the floor as it's larger assembled than not & my access to the crawl space just fits the steel box & not the whole unit

SOO the Next thing up was yesterday I buildt was W/C'd high end test bed
I need to test the whole thing outside the case soo i can build the pump/res box
>> Plus test the Rampage Formula/QX9770 out before ripping the stock cooling off to make sure that both are not DOA on me

i had got a HSPC tec bed but really was not happy about how small it was & was pissed I had ordered a MoBo on the bottom bed
anyway the bed will hold on a GTX360/EK150 res/ddc pump with a petra top all the time soo i can test MoBo's/do builds

i will be hooking up the dual Iwaki's & the dual EK 400's on the bottom deck for the Crawler coolerr test on this bed & do most of the tubing runs
here's the PIX of the test bed (up load failed on the pix seems the server is down )
DDC pump / resevoir & rad 360 will be Hard installed today I'll post pix on that when i'm done

[bigslappy]

forgot to say I ghetto modded the HSPC bed it now has 3 floors / MoBo tray now on top and a large base soo i can add /substract pumps & the like at my whim the server is still down will post PIX when they will upload !

doing a rad tower that will hold a res/pump also this will be on the bed for good
going with a tower soo the res is the hightest point & the rad outlet is up in the vertical position to make for Quick bleeds

[smee]

Wow, sounds like you've done a ton of work!! This is looking REALLY good. can't wait to see it in action!!

BTW, i can't PM you for some reason, i go to click on my pm box but it says "Data Base Server Error"...
It's been doing that all morning, so hopefully they'll be able to fix it soon... maybe we can talk in AIM instead?

[Battle_Rattle]

If you can, grab some cotton air filters and bail on the paper air filters?

I'd also request a high res you tube video or some other hosting....

Awesome work!