INTAKE MANIFOLDS 3D PRINTED The future of Hot Rodding is here! 

Good job! I am planning on a 3d printer next year.

Well done, nice 6, especially the intake and carbies.

I assume someone going to put that on a 340? Im a Mopar guy and I would like to see the results. I’m guessing that style of carburetor doesn’t have air filters for street use.

This is wild. All the best to you guys. Thanks for sharing to us car folks.

I would love to see a poly taken apart

Probably! At least in parts that could be glued

Going to need a bigger printer!

You have a very talented Son and should be proud! I hope he continues on this journey Andy

Problem with Ultem for us home gamers at the current time... cost of Ultem and temperature required. So far that requires a commercial grade, very expensive printer. Fingers crossed it trickles down to us knuckle draggers!

I will have to try E85 in it! I can see a printed Hilborn Injection type setup on MIXED UP BOSS

the best is continuous strand of cf in nylon, that companys been around for a while. pla has a lot of creep under temperature. but anyway ASA prints easier than abs and is otherwise similar to abs(and available with cf). polycarbonate(with cf) is an option too, but you really need a printer that can either work in a hotbox or has a closed build volume. the added chopped cf also helps with printing, you just need to remember to have a hardened nozzle and feeder gear otherwise it will eventually run through them being abrasive. the hardened nozzles themselves add a layer of difficulty to the setup or price, the better heat conducting ones with inserts are expensive (the bigger the nozzle hole the easier). the way the chopped strands help with printing is that it helps with keeping it dimensionally stable when printing. 'making for motorsport' channel has a video on getting an ender3 to print nylon cf (and also vids on doing ITB's for a fiesta). ok there's one more trick to making underhood parts as well: wrap the pla part in actual carbon fiber + resin. it's cheap if you just wet lay it, fine enough for brackets and stuff.

any standard cad software will do, from tinkercad(easiest, least powerful) to fusion to openscad to freecad to whatever. if you use 3d software meant for graphics you can use those as well to make the meshes but you need to be careful the mesh does not have holes in it(like for rendering graphics it doesn't matter if a cube is missing a side or if something is infinitely thin or it has overlapping triangles). if it has holes the software to make the pathway for the 3d printer can't know whats supposed to be inside and what's supposed to be the outside. but really if you know nothing but want to just make a 90 degree bracket with holes in a 4x4 pattern with 10mm separation that is easy to do in tinkercad, you just drag and drop the parts and then drag and drop and move the holes to the right places. but look if you're using low end consumer printers there's a bit of a learning curve to learning to design parts that are easy to print and strong enough.

metal 3d printing has been around for ages(first sls metal sintering machine launched 30 year ago in 1994!). it's just really expensive, it's not that expensive for a ring or such. pcbway etc's sites you can get a quote for a stl, even in gold if you fancy. an airbox will be like 1500+. you can just imagine how expensive a full spaceship rocket nozzle is! better to just have lasercut parts and weld or bolt them together for bigger things if you can do it that way.

@@lasskinn474 I mean for smaller projects like table top printers. I don't know how much the cost because I kinda lost interest when no one will ever answer questions about anything. I tend not to trust those anonymous reviews because you don't really know if they're being paid to say that.

@@lynnrunningdeer7364 the open source sls desktop printer can't yet do metal I think. the another sls printer that was supposed to go to kickstarter/production got bought up by a big corporation(basically it's not even a conspiracy that they bought them to stop them from going to market, although we don't know if the company that was supposed to make it was about to run out of funding or something). there are ways to print a filament that you fire in an oven that's been out for a while and it shrinks and get kind of a metal print out of that but it has dimensional problems for bigger parts. anyway you can also just cast parts using sacrificable pla print. ...and melt the metal in a microwave. a lot of these techniques end up as their own hobbies though. some people have built their own home metal printers for 13+ years at this point, there's a bunch of things about it that aren't easy or at the very least aren't easy on a budget. if you want to check someone who used printed parts as a way to make sand kernels for proper iron casting to make 2 stroke cylinders check a channel 'asoftaaja', you'll need to read the subtitles though. i think he's gotten the 50cc motor to 16 horsepower now(naturally aspirated 2 stroke). the amazing thing with home plastic printers is just how cheap they are now and how useful they then can be. home printing is so cheap that even if you just need a rigid drilling template you can do it without thinking about the cost.