torn between 3 ideas

[mc141]

so im about to redo my loop one last time to add an ekwb gpu block. i bought 2 passthrough adapters(making it look cleaner more profesional looking  than it is now and am drilling holes to go into the case basement case is a cosmos ii fill tower

Tubing is going to be 95% acrylic except the basment pump area i need it to flex down  there

 

so idea one is because the fittings for my hard line are too long for the bottom it requires an adapter with shallower threads which requires a 40+(depending ona traffic) trip down to microcenter

 

idea 2 would be put the fitting on top like the first one and do  like an upside down j into the bottom of the case since the top g1/4 holes are on top are deeper than the fitting

 

 

idea 3 is paint the ek chrome fittings that i dont use that are the right thread depth black and do a black out going to the basement using the ek  epdm matte black tubing or go to homedepot and see if they have any clear tubing

 

i also took a dremmel to the fitting  and shaved a part of the threads just wide enough to clear the hole but theres about still about half to slightly less than the thickness of a dvd  blocking the flow but was thinking of melting the plastic above the hole ever so slightly  to acomidate the difference  not likeing this idea so much