[tim-may]

just got done with tweaking the system some more. removed the flowmeter, fully primed the system (no air in it at all!), put a big fan on the radiator on low speed, took the cold plate off and ran it with just the pelt thermal pasted onto the water block. and guess what? got some frost!!! i wish i would have taken a picture of it now...

@ben: as for volts/amps, something must be wrong with the amp part of my meter(only said it was getting 1.5amps) but the volts were in the 11.58v-11.87v range. on the label on the antec psu it says it should supply a max of 20 amps on the +12volt rail, so i dont know whats up with that

@BrianW: yeah i totally agree with you now. i was looking at a bunch of heatercores and looks like the prices significantly drop when i went looking for more common cores. the choise is either gonna be a 65-90 ford truck hc (6" X 6" X2") or a 82-84 chevy,oldsmobile,pontiac core (6.25" X 6" X 2") both of these look in the $25-$35 range. and another thing after looking at heater cores: those things are ugly looking. i found an old article on overclockers that shows how to clean and shine one up. so i will be polishing the new heater core when i get it and do a short leak test.