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Figured I’d start a thread about parts I’m 3d printing for vehicles. Immediately realized the scope and reach would be minimal and then thought it’d be neat to see what people are fabricating no matter what the media may be.

Show us your creative and/or redneck/hillbilly/shadetree solutions. Heck, there’s even a few professionals floating around out there on the site…maybe

First day really messing around with free cad. I made a generic 90 degree corner enclosure for a 3” and 1” component speaker combo.




Ran it in the slicer just out of curiosity and found out I would require 250g of filament. Then I played around with a different wall profile to reduce thickness to 5mm.




Very interesting to mess with and I see a lot of potential for my uses. These are clunky designs that are not tailored to the specific angles where the A pillar meets the dash, but I will refine them as I dig deeper into the software.

I’ll print these in a cheaper material like PLA until I’m happy with the shape and how they turn out, then switch to something carbon fiber reinforced or similar.

I've never made anything with CAD or plastic. That's beyond my skill set, lol. I just measure, cut and weld.

bucket said:

I've never made anything with CAD or plastic. That's beyond my skill set, lol. I just measure, cut and weld.

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Welding definitely makes sense for a lot of applications, no argument here.

I didn’t need a cnc plasma or fancy welder to work with metal, nor did I need a cnc router to work with wood. The automation of those processes was definitely a luxury.

Though up until very recently, I had no way to make things with plastic. This will definitely come in handy moreso in the interior of vehicles.

I’m sure you could pick up CAD to the extent that I have. The parts I’m making aren’t going into rockets.

The son of my group leader(barely 16y.o.) is 3d printing some stuff. My Suburban doesn't have a fresh air inlet for the air cleaner, so I asked if we could come up with something. This is an early prototype-


Missed the offset for the generic 4" hose inlet, but he is building another.

carnutjw said:

The son of my group leader(barely 16y.o.) is 3d printing some stuff. My Suburban doesn't have a fresh air inlet for the air cleaner, so I asked if we could come up with something. This is an early prototype-

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Missed the offset for the generic 4" hose inlet, but he is building another.

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Curious which filament he ends up using. I have some ASA and PAHT-CF that I’m going to try on higher temp under hood stuff.

I know nothing about it, but I could ask.

bucket said:

I've never made anything with CAD or plastic. That's beyond my skill set, lol. I just measure, cut and weld.

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I swear to God. This kid asked me for a welder at 4 years old.( I didn't get him one)