Now that we had proven we should be able to make the radiator and fans fit in the front of this thing, we had to cut open the front to make room for those fans. (This was Mike’s first time using a rotary tool, for the record).

We trimmed out the cross brace and made the opening a little wider to line up with the OEM fan opening. Also trimmed the fan opening a bit taller towards the top as well.

We did a test fit with both fans and the radiator, and realized at this point we needed to make the opening a little larger. Out came the rotary tool again.

Now things fit quite nicely. Ports on the top, because we’d have to cut out even more to flip it. We had planned the loop out to run one of the lines straight between the GPU and the radiator, which also necessitated the ports on top. We’re starting a new way of doing Push-Pul with a single layer of fans on your 240mm radiator, by the way 😉 (Not really, I just noticed we had the fans mounted opposite directions when we were mocking up).

We also drilled a set of 4 holes in the bottom of the case to install a 2.5″ drive to add additional storage beyond the m.2 boot SSD.

Don’t forget to paint your freshly cut edges.