ordered up a maker bot 2 last week yes it only uses PLA But i do think we can manage anything we want depending on how much post production we feel like doing.

How about a good old fashioned brainstorm

 

This is a thing myself and a friend at work were thinking of - just making little parts at first like replaceable *****, fasteners, etc.

 

Well since we're brainstorming, centercaps? How would those be? I don't know how the makerbot works though so I don't know if you can scan things in or if you have to design it yourself but I can't imagine those would be too difficult.

 

autodesk 123d is a new free way to try and scan things
it requires about 40-55 pictures though

im pretty adept with most autodesk software and sketchup and inventor after 6 years in architecture school

you guys can expect probably a new iteration of the headlight intake at some point that actually takes into consideration the math behind ram air

 

Ar-15 lower/uppers ? Lol for real print a bracket that would allow us to relocate the power steering pump....overnight you would become a god
And throttle body adapters for sure

 

This sounds great and all, but doesn't a 3D printer only construct using plastic? How durable is this plastic? Maybe I'm just missing something here.

 

The idea is to just print the lower receiver since that is the only part that needs to be registered and then buy the rest of the gun. They work pretty well. Here is one in use https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...fGsXyA#t=1350s

 

LOL, sorry. Should have made myself a little clearer. I've seen the plastic functioning AR before. I was refering more to the power steering pump relocate bracket and TB adapter that 91parkave was talking about.

 

Gotcha. Well I assume if it was good enough for a gun it is probably durable enough for the TB. I would let someone else try it first though.

 

Could be true, although the .223 round doesn't have a tremendous amount of recoil to it. I don't know what the vibrations and torque from the belt is on the power steering pump and how it would compare to the recoil of a .223 round. I guess it would all have to do with how it is engineered. The AR lower has a lot of bends in it which strengthens the material. LOL, like you said though, prolly best to let someone else try it first.

 

its already been in the works tb adapters are fine considering its also a similar material to the intake manifold. A lot of pullies are also composite plastic. Look up top in the ls1 swap sticky last page you'll see dom87ss's work with 3d printing

 

Yea, the throttle body adapt. makes sense. I'm not a plastic expert or anything, so I was just curious. It'd be pretty impressive if a plastic power steering pump bracket held up.

 

Instead of a TB adapter, what about a complete intake manifold??

 

You know you could make bank if you printed of ls2 style flanges and necks so one could hack off the front of intake use machine screw or plastic weld the new flange off kind of like what tpis does

 

I was thinking about this also, but you would have to reverse engineer the **** out of the existing one. and i doubt GM is going to give you the blueprints or cad drawings.

 

make this style for the GXP just make the grey part a little wider and longer?

 

the main problem you will soon find out with your machine is that there will not be much you can do in the form of repeatable tolerances, strong enough materials, good surface finish, and is pretty limited on size. Ive been doing CAD for the better part of 15+ years, was a solidworks support tech and have been a 3D printer tech for the last 5 years, so if you have any questions about what to be doing for this or that let me know and ill help you where I can.

 

Absolute win.

I was looking into this a few months ago. I found a site that did them for the Solstice but stopped due to quality issues.

Recessed grilles are pretty.

 

It would be the same idea..just a little bit longer on the lower side going into the mesh part.

 

or looking at it sideways..it looks like they would almost fit going in sideways.