those activity LEDs are awesome, you can see them with the case closed, too, through the grilles.

drilled out the rivets to remove the optical bay bracket.

see, in order to remove the hard drive caddy, it has to be tilted up, to clear a little lip at the bottom of the chassis. with 3 hard drives in, that may be difficult.

first fit - all drives mounted.

yes, forgot to install the fan... i guess i'll have to take it apart again...

this will take a few test fits, as well as drilling out the mounting holes for the hard drives.

the extra headers on the VFD have been snapped clear off. if matrix orbital engineers saw this...

the VFD fits perfectly, i just needed to rill out some screw holes and make the brackets.

the brackets were made from the scrap aluminum from my old lian-li case.

the VFD will be covered with a piece of 3mm acrylic, the sides of it painted black.

the acrylic glued into the 5mm sheet of plexi on the back-side of the facia.