GerryC

O_O If you want some help on the next one just let me know. And by help I mean I'd sit there and drool.

This right there is really the only quirk (from a buyers perspective...good from an owners) is that they are maintaining their value like crazy. I bought mine used with 11k miles for $23.5k, and now over 2 years later, even with 25k miles, my particular KBB value is $400 more than what I originally paid. The only issues I've had were replacing the lower control arms (there is a service bulletin on this and it will be done for free, but I assume if you are buying one now it will already have had the work done....just make sure to ask). Also a crappy original gas cap will randomly throw a check engine light - GM made updated replacements (also free) to correct the problem.

If you like making heads turn in traffic because people don't know wtf kind of car it is, this is the car for you

Artist's rendition of me as I scrolled through the photos:

58 impala? want.

I call shenanigans

Gilmour is what I and many others use, they're about $40 [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Gilmour-95QGFMR-Foamaster-Cleaning-Sprayer/dp/B000Y190WE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1346892675&sr=8-3&keywords=gilmour+foam+gun]Amazon.com: Gilmour 95QGFMR Foamaster II Cleaning Sprayer: Patio, Lawn & Garden[/ame] Really good for strip-washes too, using diluted APC instead of car shampoo

Ask the body shop who painted it how long you should wait until applying wax. It's usually around 60 days but can vary. Until then, especially if its a daily driver, I would just let it get dirty, and then foam the crap out of it when you're ready to clean it up

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Since I only use the Detail Spray / Polishing Towel combo on an already clean, polished, and protected surface, I prefer to mist the towel and then wipe the paint, especially when I'm at a car show and the vette has been sitting in the sun for a while. However, if I was using Waterless Wash to remove light dust, I'd spray the panels themselves, with more of a saturation rather than a mist.

This guy thinks waxing is a useless pain and polishing out scratches is quick and easy...and the worst part is he probably has children.

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Some more pics from Friday and Saturday

I should put some fake goldfish in there

What voltage do you have it set at for 4.0? I'm at 3.8GHz at 1.135v - cores idling between 30-32c I'd love to push it as far as I can without hitting 1.2v

Couple of pics from setting up this afternoon

The trick to leak testing is using a spare power supply and jumping the ATX connector. This tricks the unit to believe it is plugged into a motherboard, so you can run the water pump without powering on the rest of the system. Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D Power Supply: Corsair Profesional AX650 Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V Processor: Intel i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad Core Memory: 16GB (4x4GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB Sound Card: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro (from previous system) System Drive: Crucial M4 128GB Solid State Drive Operation System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Storage Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB CPU Block: Swiftech Apogee HD GPU Block: Danger Den DD-GTX560 Pump: Swiftech MCP655-B Radiators: Black Ice GT Stealth 240 and 120 Fans: Noiseblocker XLP Reservoir: EK RES X2 Tubing: Danger Den DreamFlex UV Blue Fittings: Swiftech Lok-Seal Compression

All I can hear is the faint hum of the water pump. I downloaded a decibel meter app for my phone - dead silent in the room is 26dB, and when the computer is on it hits 32dB. I didn't go with a "system" per se, I just picked individual parts that were compatible with each other and put it all together.

Exactly. I take after my grandfather, he was very handy when it came to doing things himself. He passed away last year and one thing I learned from him was if you do something yourself then it will always come out exactly how you want it to. Thanks for the comments Thanks guys Thanks. Once I saw individually sleeved power supply cables I just had to lol. If I wasn't water cooling I may have put more $ into the graphics card, but decent PCIe 3.0 cards are pushing $500+... I may upgrade down the road if need be, but I am a web designer and only game occasionally, so I only needed something capable but not overkill.

Just got to our hotel, we left a lot later in the day than usual, but two days earlier. I'll be on hand to help set up tomorrow morning so everyone introduce yourselves

Yup, the benefits are improved cooling efficiency due to water's higher thermal conductivity compaired to air, near-silent operation thanks to no need for smaller high-speed fans, and of course killer looks Thanks guys

This shot came out incredible

I have been working on this project since the beginning of the month, determined to finish before Corvettes at Carlisle this week, and as of yesterday I finished This is only the third complete system I've built for myself (previous two were in 2004 and 2006) and it is my first foray into liquid-cooling. For those who don't know what that means, it's basically the same setup as the radiator in your vehicle. Better get the ready because this is going to be a long one. I did quite a bit of metal work on the chassis before actually assembling the system and I took photos of every step (I know how much everyone here loooooves pictures) I ordered all of my components from Newegg.com, and all of my water cooling gear from FrozenCPU.com. Both companies are in the US and have outstanding customer service. FrozenCPU had my whole order (about 30 individual items) picked, packed, and shipped within two hours of ordering, AFTER THEIR BUSINESS HOURS ENDED for that day. I'll try to include some contextual comments with each picture Here is the chassis fresh out of the box. Lots of stuff inside that I won't be needing: Like all this: Much better: But this mesh is going to restrict a lot of precious airflow: Cut out: Wrapped the edges in rubber molding: Took apart the front panel connectors. My goal is minimizing the amount of wiring inside the case, also I have another use for this assembly: Mounting switches to control the lights inside of the case: Around this time my other components arrived so the plan was to do an external test boot to ensure everything worked before installing it all into the case. In case you can't tell, this thing will be blue Everything works! Now to get some measurements: Drilled holes to mount the water reservoir: The top of the case had a hot-swap hard drive bay, which I would never use, plus it looked ugly and took up space on the inside. I wasn't sure of what to do with the open space that it left behind, but whatever I decided on, these mounting fins needed to go: Like so: The water pump was bigger than I thought it would be (about the size of a tennis ball) so I drilled out a 2 1/2" hole in the bottom of the case for it to sit in: After this the whole case was vacuumed out, hit with an air compressor, and then wiped down with a damp cloth to remove all the metal shavings. In the mean time, I mounted the water blocks onto the processor and video card. Removing the heatsink from the video card: Block installed. One of the mounting screws broke and a simple call to DangerDen (based in Oregon) and they overnighted me a whole new screw kit. Wow. Nice smooth surface on the CPU block: Installed: Back to case work. Here is the pump, sitting in the hole I cut out (also lined with rubber molding to prevent damage and reduce vibration). I did this to a. mount it securely and b. hide half of the pump so it didn't look so big. It worked I ran the power cable under the case and up through a preexisting hole in the bottom. Had to remove the connector to feed the wires through After playing around with some ideas I decided to fill in the open space at the top of the case with a piece of acrylic. For $10 I got a 12"12" slab, including the rubber molding (had to put in boiling water for 10 minutes to soften it up). I also drilled a hole in the center to mount the filling port for the water loop. Installing this window was probably the most daunting and time consuming part of the entire build. It isn't sitting 100% level but it looks pretty good for just winging it. Installed the front fan using rubber mounts. Ignore the greasy hand prints on the case. I suffer from the same debilitating disease as Adam, it's called Italianitis Mounted the front panel into the case and tested the switches, success Mounted the hard drives in these 5.25" bay adapters. The case came with hard drive cages but they blocked the front fan and where I wanted to mount the pump. Plus, they were an eyesore. So I improvised By mounting them backwards to keep the cables out of sight. Yeah, it's a sickness. Nice and clean Front of the case put back on, and the switches line up. I had to cut up part of this because it was designed for usb ports, you can kind of see where I did it, but I don't have a before picture. Now we're getting somewhere: Splitter for the filling line Next task is to flush out the radiators with boiling distilled water: Fill up, shake, empty half out, shake, empty completely, repeat 4 times: Fans mounted on the radiators and Installed in the case. The smaller radiator came with black screws while the larger one came with silver A trip to Lowe's was in order. Everything wired up and reading for tubing: What's lurking beyond the shadows: But these gold letters caught my eye in a bad way: As did these white red and yellow wires: Problems solved (also replaced the radiator screws to all matching silver): Tubes installed, and leak testing: I was unhappy with the reservoir -> pump line so I took it apart, along with the drain, and redid them: All finished up, time for some glamor shots: If you made it this far, thanks for looking, now go take a nap lol

I will be there at Adam's tent all day, every day, except Sunday

You'd be stupid NOT to take this honest-looking man up on his kind and not-at-all-questionable offer!