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I would hate to be one of your mates having to help you move house lol 🤣
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Just out of curiosity, what are the 2 wires in the valley cover plate for? Sensors?![]()
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Nice having access to CNC machines and 3D printers. I can use machinery at my work to make components when i need them, so handy! Just wish they had use for a 3D printer!
My work has been investigating 3D metal printing for the last 4-5 years, but due to the cost nothing much has really come of it. There are only a few companies this far down under that do it, and is mostly titanium components for F1 or for medical, not much in any alloy steels. When they finally find it cheap enough to buy and manufacture something i will probably be out of the modding game altogether lol.
My work has been investigating 3D metal printing for the last 4-5 years, but due to the cost nothing much has really come of it. There are only a few companies this far down under that do it, and is mostly titanium components for F1 or for medical, not much in any alloy steels. When they finally find it cheap enough to buy and manufacture something i will probably be out of the modding game altogether lol.
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Mixed materials is pretty cool!
From the seminars i have been to about it with members of the US defense force and other similar lecturers i think they arent used for aerospace due to the nature of the manufacture. 3D metal printing is essentially laser welding so there is the risk of inclusions and other imperfections that can be introduced by the welding process. You can x-ray and other testing methods but i am not sure about whether they would hang it all on a part that was manufactured that way. At least maybe not with the current machines anyway. Great for manufacturing other non life critical components though!
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Interesting, we machine components out of Grade 5 Ti and never had any issues with sparks or fires, but we do use high pressure flood coolant on our machines. Is it the grade that's flammable?
It is a mongrel to machine though, have to make sure the tools are sharp and have the speeds and feeds just right or it starts galling on the tooling.
It is a mongrel to machine though, have to make sure the tools are sharp and have the speeds and feeds just right or it starts galling on the tooling.
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IMHO while i am no expert i think you are getting hung up on using the stock filter. To get the car running i would seriously think about using a cone filter and then think about the details of trying to make it look more stock. As soon as you try and run a hood scoop or piping to face another way you are in non standard territory anyway. If you want the outside to look stock and the inside semi stock it seems the simplest way for now. You should still be able to get just a long enough section to run a MAF if you put it to the side wheel well, probably colder air there too
Loving the build thread though, making me jealous i cant do something similar... and never will with the way gas prices are going
Loving the build thread though, making me jealous i cant do something similar... and never will with the way gas prices are going
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ha, you and me both!
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Nice to see it nearly finished!
I had been wondering about the oil filter location, it looks nice and easy to get to, but I would expect when you unscrew it the oil would pour out from inside the filter and down the block or ancillaries? At least if it is hanging down the oil is contained inside the filter... or does the oil drain out into the engine before you get a chance to unscrew it on those?
I had been wondering about the oil filter location, it looks nice and easy to get to, but I would expect when you unscrew it the oil would pour out from inside the filter and down the block or ancillaries? At least if it is hanging down the oil is contained inside the filter... or does the oil drain out into the engine before you get a chance to unscrew it on those?
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