This isn’t your usual Case Mod! Engine PC

all right so we're going to do a little vlog here what i have in this box is the next theme to build i'm doing on this channel we were asked recently well this i was specifically asked on our podcast the rtfm show how i stay motivated to do these themed builds and you know what what makes me think of them and all that sort of stuff you reference the star wars build and the destiny 2 build and the red dead redemption build which never finished and it got my brain juices turning again i'm gonna do a new themed build so today i'm gonna show you what i got for it some plans for it and then we'll start sort of like mapping it out this is gonna be a multi-parter video so strap in and buckle up because it's going to get bumpy literally buckle up it's car related with no parts markup and only a 75 build fee redux gaming pcs are the obvious choice for gamers who demand the best without paying extra with as little as a few clicks you'll get a pc optimized for you and the games you play at a price that fits your budget and all redux pcs are backed by two year warranty to see all that redux has to offer and to start configuring your next pc head to the link in the description below alright so i have been sent the same photo over and over and over a theme build that someone did and i think it went up on reddit or something like that and everyone's like jay why didn't you do this you should have done this somebody basically took an engine block and just shoved a bunch of computer parts in it and stuck it on their desk very cool idea and i thought you know what i can do that i i could do it better but i don't want a couple hundred pound iron block chilling on a desk instead being the automotive person that i am i know that there are these polyurethane engine blocks that are made for doing mock-ups and stuff on uh you know on for engines so what this is this is a polyurethane chevy 350 small block didn't go with an ls i thought that'd be a little bit cliche in the sense that um what okay so let's back up the blocks come in all sorts of every engine that you can imagine essentially for v8s and modern domestics and stuff what i liked about this one specifically is the fact that it is uh very light as you can see because it's made out of polyurethane two um i don't know something about the old 350 just makes me happy sure lss are awesome but this one had the opening on the top for the valve covers now you can still bolt the valve cover down to it but as you can see right here with it being open it means i could potentially fit a radiator and such in there and then two with this being polyurethane means that i would be able to very easily um drill pass wires through figure out where the heck i'm going to put the motherboard and all that sort of stuff now this isn't cheap this was 450 but you want to be fair it's a lot cheaper than many of the cases i've used in these uh high-end custom builds so this is obviously gonna need to be painted i'm going to and that's what i kind of want to do today i sort of want to get some things kind of mocked up on it maybe get the first coat of primer on this because it's probably your thing paint will stick to it there's a special like primer you would use for it there's a lot of casting marks that need to be cleaned up um the nice thing about is you just razor blade it make it nice and crisp and take a file make the edges all look good but the first thing i wanted to see is if a 360 or 480 red or 360 might work really well but i think i'm thinking 480 because what i wanted and i was like you know what i bet you this is the perfect size for a 120 check that out boom in terms of the width so i might need to hog this out a little bit i'm going to cut some of this out with a dremel make it fit a little nicer but if i was to open up say down inside there get some airflow through there somehow because even even the um exhaust ports as you can see are not real you can mount a header to it because again this is designed to be put into an actual car to mock up if you're doing custom hot rod or race car chassis or something so you can make sure that you have your clearances set up you can even attach a belt housing to it you got bell housing holes right there you can even attach spark plugs to it right there and on the front you can see we've got all of our front accessory drive uh holes here so you can actually put water pumps and stuff on there so i'm gonna get creative with this one but the 360 as you can see is a little bit on the short side it doesn't uh it doesn't make it all the way to the back of the head so i mean it's a little on the larger side but it could work so if i had the fittings facing down so they go in the back side that actually might work so what i'm doing here is you can see on the back side the fittings sort of point down because i thought maybe i could make them go inside the head but that's not going to really work i guess the first thing to decide is we're looking at the we're going to look at the front of the engine right this is the back this is where the transmission would go i think having the wires kind of come through the back would be neat but i feel like the squareness of the ek rad maybe it doesn't quite work oh yeah more power yeah it kind of looks like a valve cover now what you have to imagine too is the fans the fans are going to be on here one two three four and if i make them light up because there's four of them this is a v8 i feel like that could sort of make it feel like uh like pistons and the cool thing about the applicable radiators check this out let's unscrew this one because we've got multi-port we've got fittings there there and there i have to worry about them coming straight down i can get this centered on the head where i want it and i can just do 90s out of there so now we've got what actually is starting to look like an engine now i'm thinking itx for the for the cpu on this so this is just a standard size itx motherboard oh slightly too wide actually i feel like it needs to go in the back because i need the i o stuff to be able to be accessible so if i had it facing the head that's clearly not gonna work so if we go back that way hey phil come here i need your opinion phil hasn't actually seen this yet so this should be interesting so here's my polyurethane engine block nice blog obviously it needs to be cleaned up and painted like casting marks and stuff on it right so okay i was thinking itx probably up here on the top somewhere and you know what i think i might do is i might actually buy some abs plastic sheets because i have these bolt holes here and i might just make like a this is called the valley of the of the chevy v8 i don't know if they call it the valley and all the other uh v8s but oh my god it's the valley not that kind of valley stupid okay anyway this this is so i could take a sheet of abs and i could bend it how i want and make a nice valley cover for it i'm thinking itx motherboard yeah right not air cooled but i just want to see how that sort of fits in there but check this out the i'll close for you i know right but the alpha cool radiators are perfect to sit on top of here exactly what i was thinking oh that's so good but the nice thing is because they're multi-port i don't worry about the ports hitting because they can just come down right here multi-port fuel injection but what that gives us enough room for here in the valley in the valley oh is that the content-aware thing i look like austin evans put some glasses on there so what i was thinking too is this gives us this gives me room to oh that's sick i don't think i want to do vertical what if i got another one of those ones like that's in his case the one that's on a hinge so i can like angle it how i want or whatever i feel like flat's the best because it's symmetrical and also you get the uh like you can look at it from any angle it doesn't have to be placed in a certain angle yeah any flats gonna work because then it allows me to be able to run the tubes down into the into the valley here but you really do have a perfect amount of room right there like for a graphics card and a motherboard see one of the reasons why i went with this block the old school 350 block instead of a new ls um the dimensions are roughly the same but the all the ls's had like the solid intake style already on here and i was like since this was an open valley and it's a long block so it's got technically the heads on here with no valve covers i was like this is where the components will go look how strong phil is and then we can use our qriket and get like you know chevrolet right there you should actually use the ports i don't think it'll be enough airflow well works for engine it works for an engine because they're small combustion chambers and they're under pressure anyway all right so you guys get an idea of how the parts are gonna be laid out i'm less concerned about the layout of the parts right now for this video and then more so wanting to show you guys um the prep of this block for getting it painted because right now if i were to try and paint it paint will not stick to it [Music] where's my files okay so i bored out the cam hole the ports uh or exhaust ports because i'm assuming we could do something with that i'm gonna end up putting spark plugs in here and spark plug wires and all that look as much like an engine as i can i mean essentially this is a hard foam engine so it's not gonna be perfect but considering how far away you're gonna be looking at it and stuff it's definitely gonna pass the the 10 foot test once everything's on it i think it'll look pretty awesome i'm going to use a bunch of this self-etching primer i think regular primer probably works fine because it's so porous but i want to see how the self etching does it's also kind of a green color but i want to see what it looks like once it starts to become more uniform see those holes from the casting kind of suck but i just don't think i'm gonna go through all the effort of filling it with bondo because if i did that then you'll have really smooth spots and then really rough spots i might go back to the drawing board on this one i'm going to have to do some research on [Music] what paints will stick to this this won't be the first paint failure i've ever had on this channel yeah i can see wherever you sort of touch it watch this see it's probably still a little oily this might work out because one of the things i was thinking about doing was actually making it a rusty block like an old rusty block and i said that to my wife when i was talking about this so i said i don't know if i want this to be clean or junkier i mean the 350 push rod we'll just call this a flat tappet motor has been around since like what 40s 50s something like that it's an old old design it's been revised obviously over the decades but i'm thinking a patina type build on this would look awesome so if it stays stuck in some areas like it is and then i start using my rust if i do my silver and then i do a rust like that and then i come over and start scotch brighten it we'll definitely get a rusty effect in fact maybe i'll try that right now before i start cutting on things more you see in some areas it is sticking pretty good i need a silver to stick to it so let me go ahead and first do my paint drawer is so messed up let's do this one here is that stainless yes this is some of the most amazing paint ever and yes i'm aware that stainless is not cast iron because now i could just say all the casting marks is where you know erosion rust or corrosion over time this has some brown paint on here right now that's curing there's some areas that it still scrapes off pretty easy i'm not too concerned about that honestly because if i'm going to start going with a patina type build i'll seal the whole thing in with a matte clear which will help give it strength it's brown because if you've seen any of our my patina type mods with the case that we made the little like uh digital football computer out of um the star wars build the destiny 2 build if i go for patina you undercoat with the rusty color you want to show through that way when you scotch bright through the nice pretty coat you get the what looks like rust underneath it but it's holding well enough to where i think this this will work there's certain areas so it's not scratching off too easy but it is um it's also only been on here for a few minutes so it's not completely cured it's gonna take some time but i've decided to go ahead and do it with the patina style simply because of the fact that the the block it's got all these casting imperfections where there was like air in there so i'm just going to play those up to look like corrosion i'm probably might even bring in my airbrush and where those are all eaten i'll make it even more obviously rusty in there and we'll play off of that but i think it'll look real nice when it's all said and done you know why i'm doing an engine based build it's because i'm going to be doing an ultimate like game racing simulator setup here at the studio that way i have one here at the studio and one at the house but this will be the computer for it but we'll integrate this into the rig so the engine computer is within the rig instead of sitting next to it or something which i think will be really really cool i mean what if we even got like a real car dash and stuff and put it on i don't know we can play around so there's uh today's progress now this video is going to continue for you guys but for me i'm going to call it a day and then what we'll do tomorrow is we'll finish putting on some of the silver coat and then i'm well aware that a lot of it's going to get damaged and chip off as i'm working on the pc and then what i'll do when i've got everything sort of rigged up in here like it needs to be like the radiator is mounted because here's the thing i'm going to obviously now have to make the radiators mount because now if i put this on top it's gonna look way too clean right so we'll be doing some that's gonna look so cool when it's done anyway i'm distracting myself here uh when it's all said and done it will all match perfectly so for today i'm going to get out of here for you guys just keep watching all right it's day two the paint's all dried it's mostly sticking it will still scratch off mostly because again it's polyurethane it wants oil-based paint i don't know if this is even oil-based but that's fine we want that sort of a scuffed-up [Music] look right so it's hard to even get it to come off i want to see [Music] remember i did the red under it so i'm trying to see now if i can get this to look like an old engine block i might have to actually use my airbrush on this to get some of the effect i want and then one thing we have to do today too is i've got to figure out how i'm going to attach the radiators and then i need to figure out um the wiring path and all that sort of stuff and then maybe i'll paint the radiators today too if i have time because remember the radiators have to match the engine they can't be all clean not how many orange paint i thought about actually tape masking off a line where the heads would be and painting the block orange like old school chevy motors but i'm just not a fan of that so much hey look of the brown is showing through right there now i'm getting some of that old sort of a rusty look to it so i just started chipping off the paint where i felt like it would look natural and i need to figure out now how i'm gonna deal with getting things mounted on here so first things i'm going to start with is getting proper airflow to the radiators as you can see i bored out or i get bored out technically which i think i did a pretty good job by hand by the way with my dremel on the exhaust ports that's not going to be enough air flow for the radiator so we're going to need more than that the problem is this is all solid that thickness right there so i don't think i'm going to be able to yeah i don't think i'm going to be able to those are solid too where the spark plugs go not so sure where i'm going to be able to pull air in but i guess we'll figure it out that's part of what these projects are all about right too bad i should just put holes on this side of the head too right intake exhaust intake exhaust i don't know we'll figure it out so in terms of airflow direction i'm thinking down and out the exhaust just like an engine only instead of coming through an intake side of the head which has no holes we're going to just take it from the top like this so i tape these fans on there that's already looking so cool i want to see if maybe these exhaust ports might be enough to actually allow air to exhaust out now remember i'm going with two fat 480s it's one graphics card and one cpu that's way more than we need so even if the airflow isn't optimal at least we will be able to get enough airflow i think to matter because i think those exhaust ports in terms of the total uh area of their opening is probably more than most of these crappy cases these days that have the solid fronts without mesh so if it's good enough for that to feed your entire system i think two of them or technically eight exhaust ports should be enough for this so i honestly believe it will be more than enough airflow so before i commit to it let's at least test it you know pretend like we actually do science around here and think about things before we do them so what i'm looking for here okay wow there's a lot of air coming out of there yeah there's actually a decent amount of air coming out of the exhaust ports we're doing exhaust ports that's what they're meant to do okay yes but they're also under high pressure and the combustion chamber in there is only a few cc's versus you know the total area hey phil come check this out we have a functioning engine phil oh yeah no that's totally remember i was joking you should use the headers as an actual exhaust for the hot air yeah that's freaking awesome well if i add tubes to it it's going to add a little bit more uh resistance four fans right i need to paint the the radiators to match right to like be weathered but can you see the build now coming together i'm happy with this i am i approve of this i like i like orange because it's got that old school that looks cool kind of a look to it that looks good that's so cool now i just gotta figure out how to mount it down that's gonna be the hard part cause i can't screw it in from the bottom and that's where the screws are so one thing i want to do with this sheet of abs is maybe center it and i want to heat the sides so i can fold it under the way i can mount them down like that and this will be almost like a intake and then that will allow me to be able to mount my motherboard see because this is going to go into racing stem i got to remember which way is gonna be facing us so if the front of the engine is facing that way you're gonna see the back of the engine more if the engine needs to face the proper way anyway i mean it could go either way i still feel like the front of the engine would be better because i could attach some bracketry to the front of this and make it look like a real engine with the pulleys and the belts and all that sort of stuff i mean if it's in the racing sim it'd be facing the wrong way but seeing the business end of it would be nice so i still think it should go facing you or it can go next to it these are these are the little things that kind of become a pain in the butt but that's fine so i need to do right now is i need to mark where i'm going to bend this that way i can get it bent at the right spot so bending abs or acrylic tubing and stuff that's all the same when it comes to plastic sheets it's not that big of a deal use the edge of the table here this will be our bending guide and we're going to take these clamps if you look right here you'll see i've got the line overhanging the table slightly because i have to account for the radius of the bend it's not going to bend perfectly on that line so you have to account for the radius of it that way it bends then essentially where the line is so abs is really resilient and it unlike acrylic it takes a lot of heat to get to finally start to bend so i just keep hitting it with the heat gun working it bending it a little bit at a time try not to burn yourself but you just got to keep working it one thing you want to keep in mind though is as you heat it and stuff it will stretch a little bit it will dimple and it will sort of warp as you can kind of see the sides are going to want to heat up faster than the middle i also like to heat both sides of it that'll make it bend easier it also cools very quickly so as soon as you take the heat off of it you want to start bending it right away to make sure it's nice and straight it cools off very quickly like i said see it's already doesn't want to bend now if the heat gun's taking too long and you got a torch you can get it to heat up much faster with a torch again with the torch very high heat very concentrated very fast so you want to make sure you don't hold it in one spot too long we'll come back and show you guys what the final product looks like okay so the nice thing about this having the intake manifold screws on there is that i can drill holes here that line up uh to pass a bolt through and then have some holes on this side to access you know getting a wrench in there but there's our first mock-up of our valley cover i think the plastic's a little flimsy so i'm probably going to end up not with this necessary necessarily this piece but i'm probably going to end up making a some sort of a sheet metal top piece to give a little more rigidity up there but before we end this video to sort of give you an idea of what we figured out today we figured out the header exhaust port or the head exhaust ports are plenty of airflow for our radiators so imagine that up there and then i don't know for now we'll just say horizontally mounted graphics card somewhere like that let me see it quickly so you see how flimsy the plastic gun is so we'll figure that out for rigidity make some sort of spine or something and then the motherboard somewhere back there yeah you can see this is this is definitely starting to take shape so not bad for day one one thing i'm thinking about doing too in terms of the wiring is i did drill out this hole right here for the cam you guys saw that because this was normally sealed so i could actually pass wires through here up into the valley because there's a hole that goes through technically sideways but i'll drill one straight through then the wires can come down into the engine and i can use an engine harness you know harness material to make it look very engine engine-like anything that i'm not going to hide a lot of the wires because engine harnesses right so i'll probably have the cables be in an engine harness strap down coming along here and i think it's all going to look pretty awesome i still have to figure out how i'm going to mount down the rads we do have these holes right here but that's where we're gonna go ahead and end this one if you guys have any suggestions for this build put it down the comments below or better yet hit me up on twitter because i'm uh i'm always up on twitter because i'm an idiot and uh we'll see what we can do but i'm really happy the way this is turning out and i think it's going to look awesome as our racing simulator pc thanks for watching guys and as always see you in the next

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Id: ST2fj6HT4MU

Length: 24min 13sec (1453 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 18 2021

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