One of the greatest challenges in watercooling is finding a suitable radiator that wont break the bank, yet still perform well. A traditional solution is to pull a heatercore from a car. Unfortunately this has been a hit and miss affair until now. With the range of cars available people don't know what to look for. Many heater cores are hidden behind acres of plastic which takes hours to pull away from the car.

The first thing to do is to get yourself and your extensive toolkit to the nearest car breakers yard.

The bare minimum toolkit is a Hammer, Junior hacksaw, Phillips screwdriver, and a small pair of pliers.

Upon arriving at the car breakers you will be confronted by quite a confusing sight, row upon row of clapped out old bangers. But not any banger will do, we are looking for the holy grail, an old shape Volkswagen Polo. These cars are fairly common and most modest sized breakers should have at least one. The reason the Polo is such a good find is that the heatercore isn't buried under god knows what inside the cabin and is also a fairly large densely finned core, perfect for computer watercooling!

Now, a car breakers wont take any responsibility for any injuries caused while on the premises, so it is best to locate a Polo that is on the ground rather than stacked (like the one I had to dissect). Now onto the actual surgery itself!

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