Hey all, I chrome painted my 2 intake fans and my CPU fan. The effects are subtle, but it really looks cool.



Here the case is on my bench as I installed the fans. They certainly are susceptable to finger prints.




Here they are spinning with the CC light in place.




CPU fan. I may light this one yet.




Fans as seen through the grill. I love the look of fan through a grill, it has this pimped out supercar look.




Night shot


I just did this quick project to trial the concept and see how it would look. There are some changes and revisions to come yet.

One more close up.

Wow!, good looking fans Viper. What kind of paint did you use? Last time i tried to crome, i ended up with a POS, i know it wasnt my procedure, so i belive it was the brand........

Thanks Scape!

The paint is covered in this thread, mid way down the 1st page.

cool thanks Viper, "Original Crome By krylon, i know ive seen that one in the stores, so i will give it a try

EDIT- Hey lookie there, Im Duck's personal Quack-Hoe , i always wanted to be a Quack-Hoe, lol

Quote: Originally posted by scapegoat Hey lookie there, Im Duck's personal Quack-Hoe ,

And now that you are there, I'm gonna keep you there!

Viper that cc/grill/chrome fans are awesome! (inspiration, inspiration!)the crome goes really well w/ your alluminum lian li!

Too bad i painted my fan already.......is there anyway to paint over the fan safely?

Thanks Dee!

What color are the fans painted now? You could paint over them, however you do want to be mindfull not to make the fans too heavy with paint. The cages wont matter, but the blades will. You could sand the surface of the fan blades and that would probably be good enough to repaint them.

Barring that, the fans required for the front are really inexpensive. The Lian Li comes with nice Adda fans, but those could be replaced with Panaflos that I have seen sell for $9 cdn. That would be $5.40 US, cheap like borscht

Where did you find that CC? I have been looking for one similar to that for ages. That would be perfect. Thanks.

Kleiner, I got it at E-Compuvision

Good work! YOu had excellent results from your painting. Did you take it apart to spray (the fans that is) or did you just spray away?

Viperz...you become more a modder everyday! You now have probably the tightest LL I have seen to date! Fantastic work!

On a side note, your car is my dream car (3 series BMW). Not my "if I had a bajillion dollars" dream car, but my realistic "this is doable" dream car.

Thanks Kleiner. I disassembled the fans for painting. I actually lost one of the small retaining clips and had to make one from some spring metal I had lying around

Thanks Putwig, slowly but surely aye....

Thanks on the car, when did you see my car?

I agree, if I had a bajillion, I would own many cars, but seeing as I don't, I have this one... One day I would like to upgrade to a M3,someday....

I never really liked Lian Li's (don't know why), but that is one nice looking box ViperZ!

*Ponders getting one "for wife"*

Thanks for the painting help Viper, my fans are painted blue by the way. Guess I'll hafta spend the afternoon sanding through the 2 layers of paint and 2 layers of primer........

Thanks P-Joe! We like what we like If you bought one for your wife, be careful to not let it take over your life

Dee, That seems like the only way. Soaking the part in brake fluid would easily remove the paint with out harming the plastic, however the corrosiveness of it may damage the magnets.

Quote: Originally posted by ViperZ Thanks Kleiner. I disassembled the fans for painting. I actually lost one of the small retaining clips and had to make one from some spring metal I had lying around

Is there a trick to this procedure? I have a nice ball-bearing Enermax fan with a broken blade, I'd like to take the blade assembly off of a sleeve-bearing Enermax and slap it on the ball-bearing unit...but I already broke the retaining clip on another fan I was modding...damn, those things are small and fragile! And hard to get at properly.

Viperz- there was a car thread months ago. You posted pics (black wasn't it?). I just never got around to commenting.

Putwig.. OH Yeah.... I remember now Thanks Dood, it really is a lot of fun to drive. Most times I roll down all windows, open the sun roof, turn off the stereo and just listen to the sweet in line 6 burble as I drive. It really sounds nice. Correct it is Jet Black.

Coel, no trick really. I used the spring from a battery box, the one that goes to the negitive end of a AA. I cut the smallest spiral (top of the cone shaped spring) off. Then I used two pairs of needle nose pliers and pulled the wire into the diameter that was the the size of the fan blade shaft groove. I cut the excess off and flattened the now clip, pressed it on and gave it a final squeeze with the pliers to ensure it was seated in the groove. It worked well!

Of course if your really stuck, a bolt supply house will have E-clips that will fit the fan shafts as well. I may actually go get a few, it's just I did not want this to hold up my project so I was in a bind :p

I guess my problem isn't so much the replacement of the retaining clip, it's removing the existing one without breaking it. I'll look for some e-clips somewhere here, because I'm fairly certain I'll snap the old one while trying to remove it. Those things are fragile, I tell ya. I don't want to chuck an otherwise perfectly good Enermax ball-bearing fan when I have another Enermax sleeve-bearing fan I could cannibalize for the blade assembly. I'd rather toss the sleeve bearing unit.

Speaking of engine burbles...every vehicle I've owned has a V-8. Not to dis a powerful V-6 of course (or even an inline 6 for that matter) as my dad's Grand National is a V-6...but nothing beats the sound--and feel--of an idling big-block. I like to actually feel the motor when it's running, which you can't with most modern motors. By design, most modern engines are supposed to run smooth and quiet.

Then there was this one time I got a hole in my exhaust pipe just before one of the mufflers on my Charger; the thing sounded like a friggin' Nascar or something! When I'd drive through a neighborhood, old men mowing their lawns would look up! I had to fix that exhaust pretty quick or I'd have the police on my ass for noise pollution.

I bet you have times where you miss the sound and feel of your big-block 400 in your Chev (was it a Firebird?)...since the 340 is a pretty smooth-running motor, by comparison.