Quote Originally Posted by skinnee View Post
Looking very good BA!

Let me know who you get to powdercoat for you, I've been looking for a place in the cities that does a good job at a decent price.
Will do. Maybe we could do some parts in the same batch and save a little. Then we could grab a beer and talk about our rigs...

Some more updates today. I decided to ditch the acrylic for the base, it's just too fragile and this aluminum here looks much more delightful. So I started cutting, drilling and this is what I have so far. I bought a stepped drill bit and that works amazing on holes. I highly recommend you pick one up.

I will paint this piece a high gloss black and shine it up, should look pretty nice.

I've decided to use some of my original Aqua Computer parts and do two loops. The Aqua Computer cooling will just cool the hard drives, pointless but I don't know what else to do with the hard drive coolers and their bays to keep them looking decent. So I'm going to place the Ek res in the middle and recessed down below the midplate, therefore having all of the plumbing for it below the midplate. The tubing from the hard drives will be smaller diameter tubing and will kind of go around the reservoir. I think I'll use blue and yellow color water for this, to kind of go with the logo and match the case.

Anyways, here is the progress so far on the V2000.