How's it guys

Well, it's christmas, everything is closed, so i can't buy paint or plexi for Endorphin (the mod i'm working on at the moment), and my family is in christmas mode (i don't celebrate christmas so i need to keep myself busy). So, what do i do, i mod something ELSE!! Woohoo!!

Here are the plans so far for this specific 360:

• Case Window
• Replace the fans with nicer ones
• Some modding to the fan duct, maybe chrome it, or import a new one
• LEDs in the bottom and the top
• LEDs inside the place where the front USB ports are. These LEDs will only be visible if something is plugged into the ports
• Internalize the HDD
• Mod another HDD into the current HDD enclosure and use that as a device that i can store stuff on from my PC and then view on the 360
• LEDs in the optical drive
• Optical drive window
• HDD activity LED somewhere on the 360... still need to decide
• Ethernet activity LED
• Change the LEDs on the Ring Of Light (ROL) to blue
• Change the LEDs in the controller to blue
• Change the LED in the play & charge kit to blue
• Maybe an LED fader kit for the LEDs in the case for when the 360 is off
• Window in the HDD enclosure
• LEDs in the HDD enclosure
• Close up the memory card slots and IR view on the front. I don't want that stuff there

So i grabbed one of my 360s and pulled it apart. Here's the top cover:




Inside:





All masked up and ready for some love. Say hello to my little friend!





Almost done cutting:





Alrighty, panel out:







Now it's all down to lots and lots of sanding...

Sanding done:





A quick test fit:





Excuse the two random wires and masking tape in the 360. Those are wires i've soldered onto the underside of the board for 5V power source.

What i needed now was the window. This is the plexi i'll be using for the window.





Don't worry, it's transparent plexi, it just has a blue protective film over it. I didn't bother cutting that plexi to size just yet because i first want to cut a nice window border like i did here with Endorphin's side panel:





I'll probably only get to do that next week though when everything opens

Anyway, 360 back together:







And back on it's place





I have a few goodies on their way to me from china. I ordered them just before i went on holiday, so they should be here any day now. I ordered some replacement rear fans, an LED lighting setup... err... can't remember what else :|

Then I started with the HDD enclosure. So, we all know what the HDD looks like in it's default form:





After opening it up, i pulled the top piece apart from everything else, and then I masked it up:





Almost done cutting:





Done sanding. Just have to make the edges smoother:





Now, the 360 HDD enclosure has a nice chrome side:





That fits like this:





But that little bridge in the middle is in the way, so it needed to go:





All done, no plexi yet though:





And then, finished!! All pimped out with a nice 1.5mm clear plexi window






I just need to get rid of that "Warranty" sticker on the HDD...


I wasn't happy with the HDD window. So i decided to make a flush mount window. This way, instead of having the hole in the cover with a piece of plexi INSIDE, you have a piece of plexi SLIGHTLY larger than the hole, which is then FORCED into the hole and the result is a window that's FLUSH with the cover. It looks a million times better:







Then it was time to get some LED goodness going. So, i took out the HDDs cables:





I needed these two:





Yellow is 5V, black is ground. Wires stripped:





Then after testing with a multimeter, i quickly soldered on an LED just to make sure:





Success. So, after removing that LED, i made these:





I also soldered on a resistor:





Glued the LEDs in place:





Once that was done, all i had to do was put it all together. All done:





Lights off:







Not too bad if i must say so myself!

Now i need to change the LEDs on the ROL (Ring of light) ASAP. The green doesn't exactly go with the blue in the HDD.

MUCH more to come!

Let me know what you guys think.

Regards
Ett

why don't my images work? :|

Took my time to copy&paste the urls and I have to say, that looks quite nice. Are you going to paint this or "just" do some window and light jobs?

Thanks dude, glad you like it I will be painting the console, yes

why the hell don't my images work?!

Quote: Originally Posted by DAE_JA_VOO Thanks dude, glad you like it I will be painting the console, yes

Lucky you. At least it is the time of the year to be painting at your place. I still have to wait two to three months until it will be warm enough outside.

Hmmm I dont know why your images arent working. Try updloading directly to the thread and posting from there. Just scroll down to manage attachments, and upload from there.

DJV, Try uploading to pcApex bro, it will save you a lot of hassle in the long run!
I'll have a looksee if I can fix it....
*Edit*
Ok, I'm stumped, I looked and yep, the images are inserted correctly.
I'll give Twiz a heads up and see what he makes of it...
Sorry bro.

Whats your gamertag?

First of all how many 360's you have???



I got the images fixed for you... Not sure why but some rogue code was in the post disrupting the images

This is a direct C&P from the original post.... Note the <WBR> in multiple places... That was breaking the image linkage... not sure how it got there but just watch for it in the future.

Thankyou for sorting that Twiz

Djv, that is looking really good so far, so fancy sendin' one of them 360's out on loan? J/K
I'm looking forward to seeing where you go next with this!

Kudoz on the way...

Thanks for the comments guys! Glad you like it so far!

Thanks for fixing my images twisted!

I have 3 Xbox 360s

My gamertag is Daejavoo ZA

Quote: Originally Posted by DAE_JA_VOO Thanks for the comments guys! Glad you like it so far! Thanks for fixing my images twisted! I have 3 Xbox 360s My gamertag is Daejavoo ZA

I cant add you, It says your friend list is full.

Thats really cool idea with the HDD! I want to see what you do with this!

Keep it up! I want to see what it looks like at the end of modification.

LOL you got way more guts then me. I'm on my 4th XBOX First two where Premiums the 3rd was a elite and my 4th is a Halo Edition. They where all crazy "I can hear it 3 rooms away" loud. finally lucked out with the Halo one and It has a decent noise level. Bunch a POS 360s.

Anyways the guts part comes in as the halo hard drive is only 20 GB as the Elite's is 160, I want to swap out the internals between the two but don't feel like voiding any warranties just yet. My Black Elite would look bitchen with some red or yellow LEDs though, I'll have to try it out if I ever pry it away from my free loading brother in law.

Just curious where did ya get your info on the power readouts on the 360 hardware.

Keep up the good work, I like the look of the flush window. If been thinking of doing something similar with my Extra Elite, it will be nice to see how it all turns out.

Thanks so much for the comments guys!

Update!!

Okay, this isn't much of an update, but i've got one or two things to share

A nice little package arrived from Honk Kong:





Included in this package were the following:

A set of Blue Talismoon rear fans:









Compared to the stock fans:





A new fan duct:





Compared to the stock fan duct:






Some LEDs:









(yes, i know, i could have made those myself. But i'm lazy, and they were cheap )

And lastly, the replacement cover for my DVD drive:





The bummer about the DVD drive cover is that it requires me to tear open my original cover for the little balancing goodie:







Which is then held in place with this:





I dunno if i'm gonna keep that piece though. I might make my own one...

Anyway, stock fan:





New fan:







Fan duct in place, and testing:





I then also wired up the new LEDs. All power from the bottom of the motherboard:





I ALSO changed the LEDs on the ROL, from green to blue:







I then threw it all together just for a quick test to see how it looks:









Tomorrow i'm gonna go get some paint. Can't wait to finish this baby

Looking good...Whare did you get those fans?

You have bigger balls, and more Xboxes than I do. And a better looking one.

*Envy*

Quote: Originally Posted by HemiCuda1970 Looking good...Whare did you get those fans?

Divineo

Final pics!!!

I'm sorry for the lack of updates. I was pushed to finish it towards the end and just didn't have the time or patience to do updates






















A nice clear shot of the awesome paintjob:







And the DVD ROM window:







The controller:











And of course, some shots of the lighting:





















Let me know what you guys think!

That is just beautiful! I am really really jealous. Great job! The fit and finish are just flawless and it looks great with the matching blue lighting.