Water cooled setup

[clocker]

I don't know.
Mine looks just like the "r" version...

[Detale]

I can't even find a "R" version for sale so

[clocker]

Maybe it stands for "Retail"?

[Acid_death69]

god i can't believe this thread is still floating around, lol tis madness. I can't be assed looking through the rest of the thread what else has happened to your pc w/c wise?

[Detale]

Umm, well Dan where did you leave off? It had an accident when a hose came free during operation. Then it say for a while as my lazy ass lost my nerve, now I got it back and am building her back up again with a new CPU/Mobo. Time is short so it's taking too long but I'll be doing more this week shirley

[Acid_death69]

lol fair doos fella is your missus on board with building up your pc:p

[Detale]

Lol never!!!

[clocker]

Semi-threadjack time.

I finally got around to installing the EK block you so graciously donated to Sprocket.
I was waiting for a CPU block so I could break the loop but once, unfortunately my "friend" with the block is a lazy barsteward and never came through, so I went ahead without it.

No way to compare "before/after" results.
The smart thing to do would have been just swapping the GPU block but I seem unable to make incremental changes and instead made sweeping changes to the whole computer.
I remade the front panel (not a big performance mod but a significant aesthetic improvement), changed the pump top, added a different reservoir and eliminated the northbridge block in favor of a Thermalright sink with fan.

Also reconfigured the HDDs and reloaded the OS with Win7 RC1 (64-bit , build 7057).
To top it off, the weather jumped into the mid-seventies, so pretty much nothing is the same as before.

A teaser shot of the hastily assembled setup...


All this was squeezed on top of another project I'm involved in...cramming a 1996 Camaro V-8 engine into a 1993 Mazda RX-7.


I've been a busy boy...so busy that I was unable to hit the post office yesterday but I promise to get there today.
Really...promise.

OK, end threadjack.

[Detale]

Looks good man. Let me ask you how do you mount those cross braces going up/down, left/right? Are they just screwed in. Also is that a blue LED on the ram cooler!!!!

On the engine, where do you work on it? Is the engine new or rebuilt? What would posses you to do such a thing??

[clocker]

Looks good man. Let me ask you how do you mount those cross braces going up/down, left/right? Are they just screwed in. Also is that a blue LED on the ram cooler!!!!

Yup, just screwed in.

On the engine, where do you work on it? Is the engine new or rebuilt? What would posses you to do such a thing??

We're working in his home garage.
He bought the car last March- in "running" condition- and had been chasing down problems ever since.
His back problems (he's scheduled for surgery in a month) have hindered progress, so he put a notice in the RX-7 forum and I responded.
The engine is a pull from a 1996 Camaro that supposedly has had all sorts of performance work done to it- I can't confirm or deny that since we only got it running last weekend and there is still a lot to do before it's semi-driveable.

"What would possess you to do such a thing"?
Put a stonkin huge American V-8 into one of the best handling sportscars of the last 20 years...hmmm, isn't that what Carroll Shelby did to create the original Cobra?
Why yes, yes it is.