Yep, that's right, even if I bundled the wires really nicely, there was just too  much there, it wouldn't fit. So I removed 10" of wire from it.

Turned out rather nice when it was all done. Another thing I wanted to do was to  wire my pump into the power supply, so that I didn't have a power cord hanging  out the back of my case, unfortunately, this proved overly difficult, so I  haven't done that yet, I fully intend to get back to it in the near future.

The next thing I did was strip the case completely down and cut a 120mm hole in the floor of the case for an intake hole. The idea is that a 120mm fan will suck air up through this hole, through the radiator, and up into the case. I  used a single speed dremel, and a fiberglass reinforced cutting wheel to cut this hole

I just glued these feet on, I didn't feel like screwing them on. Unfortunately, these feet aren't as tall as I hoped, and I may need to remove them and either go with some wheels (woohoo!), or taller feet. These feet work great like this:

But I want to put a filter down there, a black plastic filter, and it's too close to the floor as it is. So that's another modification I will be making in  the near future. (By the way, this picture here, of the bottom of the case, I  took while the system was on, I love being able to pick the case up and flip it  this way and that without worrying about the watercooling.

Now that lower blowhole is nice and all, but blowing through the radiator, it does introduce heat into the system, so I need a nice way to get that out of the  system. I had hoped to make the system completely stealth, but a blowhole won't  hurt that much, blowholes are quite common now. I did consider taking the case to an auto body shop and having louvers put in the top of it, I decided against it for time reasons. And I probably would have decided against it for funding reasons too. So here we go. I removed the lid from the case, and cut the hole from the inside:

Now this could have been all I needed to cut into the case, but I had this  nagging suspicion that the air coming off my heat sink was helping to cool the voltage regulators on my motherboard, so I decided to put in a 60mm fan over my I/O ports, which will eventually have a duct directing air down over the voltage  regulators on my motherboard. I just haven't gotten around to making that little duct yet. I used a dremel to cut this hole too, which was a lot more difficult  because of the small circle, and tight working conditions.

This is the little 4"x4" radiator that OverClock Watercool sells for $40. When I bought this radiator, I mentioned that I needed it for this article, and  he sent out one that he had been using, normally I'd have had to wait till he  got his next shipment in, apparently they sell faster than he can get them. He had JB Welded a 120mm fan to the radiator, so I just went ahead and left it glued on. I have no idea what brand or model this fan is.