I'm now offically hooked, it's so much fun to mess about in tinkercad to design something and have it print out and see it come to life.

Check out my first ever car part - a MK2 escort bonnet cable retainer! 


 

 
Thats just in PLA at the moment, I am going to buy some matt black ABS and make the final one, took about 5 versions to get it right. If anyone wants the STL let me know and I'll shoot it over!

I've got some PAHT-CF on the way to try, apparently the thing to do is anneal the parts in an oven at 100c for a few hours after printing for full layer bonding and strength and will make prints pressure resistant and water tight. I need to figure out or buy a drying system too.

I have been playing around with the inlet manifold and this is what I have so far. It's two piece but i've designed it to bolt together in the middle at the plenum base plate with a recess for a seal and where it will bolt to an injector plate which I've still got to design.
 

 

 

 
Also velocity stacks because why the hell not! I managed to find an STL for the bolt pattern for a Skunk2 honda plenum, so that's what you're looking at there.
 

 
Still learning the software side of things but it's been a fun couple of days designing this and printing out small parts of it to make sure things line up with the ports on the head and bolt holes etc. Next step would be to print the whole design in one go - will be doing that on the weekend!
 
 

I would be interested in seeing photos of that thing for sure! 

Yeah I put the part in the slicer just to see how long the printing of these things would take.. over a day with fuzzy skin, solid infill, thicker walls and variable layer heights on the bends and tops of the curves... will have to wait until i can start it at like 4am.

Without all that it is only like a 10 hour print to check the fitment which is reasonable. The filament isnt too unreasonable, only 60 bucks a roll but I wouldnt want to be making any mistakes that's for sure!

 
Wow, impressive Mark, you are of to a flying start on the inlet.
Yes Marty and I got some Hinda bike ITB's from the US, and had been playing with the idea of printing manifolds out.
(Well I was also secretly possibly just going to buy one of DanSt's manifold when the time came, but it continued on).
Alot of the basic config was just doen with thinkercad as a learning exercise, then I bought Rhino#D software and started redoing it in that. In between doing that and the van, I got halted when  couldnt get the  inlet tubes to nicely meet into the flange faces. Marty has recently revived again with a complete unit redrawn.
I think the only iteration left was to maybe to put a common MAP tube across each inlet.
I'm still on hols, on a different pc, but heres the ITBS.I made a Speeduino, and had it connected to the pc.
 
Definately dont use the wifes oven for your curing.
 


 
 

and depending on your bed type, you can just use normal 3M blue painters tape as well.
Thats our go to, get a few prints out of it and remove and replace when needed.
Plus some 3Dlac hairspray if you are really having issues with prints cooling and lifting off.
 
Definately use a raft or a shirt if its a small item that may not have much surface area to stick down with.
3D print is just like gambling, you never know if its going to work out like you hoped till its too late.

With it being stinking hot I've been working on the computer instead of the garage. I started the process of designing and printing rear quarter speaker mounts, So far so good, now I just need to make up a few long brackets to mount it to the panel. 


 

 
Because the RS has roll top cards there are "spare" holes in the panel that the non RS cards mount to can run arms from to mount it securely, I will just need to position it in such a way that it doesnt foul on the arm rest part of the trim, there is enough depth that it shouldnt be an issue.

I may or may not have gotten the idea from around these parts .
 
I'm half a mind to figure out a way to mount them to the door card, but the factor cards are really brittle.