Being the sort of guy that needs to keep his hands busy (insert any number of fnarr related tomfoolery here) lockdown and the whole covid thing in general has been a royal pain as I have not really been able to do much with the car and tbh haven't really driven either the A2 or the S3 much over the past year...
I think the batteries have spent more time on charge than I have spent driving them...
So to scratch the 'must tinker' itch I turned yet again to my PC redoing all the pipework on the cooling loop and moving stuff around a bit to clean the build up a bit and hopefully help with cooling...
This was its most recent iteration (I have changed it a couple of time now already)... was never 100% happy with the layout aesthetically and also from an engineering perspective
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Intake fans at the bottom never sat too well with me even though logically it made sense... so... drained the coolant and stripped ready for the next update
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Swapped the one rad from the side mount to the bottom of the case, intake fans now at the side and have a lot more area to pull air from... the rejig allowed me to keep most of the pipework over on one side keeping it cleaner and more purposefully industrial looking...
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I also added two oled gauges for flow rate and water temp... meaning I can see at a glance if the water temps are running away (typically happens in the summer) rather than have other software running in the background while gaming
Very happy with the result... looks more balanced and cleaner whilst overall temps seem to be a little more consistent
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...happy days...
...I really need to get back to tinkering with cars soon though...