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Again I should be sanding but I put some bigger sway bars on front and back instead.

Whiteline rear, need to change the links because they don't quite line up right as you can see in the photo. Should be a big upgrade from the pencil thin factory sway bar:

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I've removed that rusty lower brace to sandblast and paint.

Bought a new sand blasting gun, its just a SCA 'Black ridge' jobby but the reviews were good and the design looked better. I definitely rate this highly for the money! Waaaay better than the Machinery Warehouse gun that came with my cabinet.

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And the front is something or other brand, much heavier and thicker:

 

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Should do some sanding now but my kids want to play with water pistols so I'll do that.

 

EDIT: meant to say how easy it was to install on both ends, easiest I've ever done. Nothing gets the in the way at all. I remember doing the rear sway bar on my old ae92 Trueno and it was a bastard of a time.

 

 

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Back to 3d modelling, Fusion 360 is great but man I was pulling my hair out a bit with stuff just not doing what it was supposed to, it's totally the software and not me being a novice...

I have some screenshots of the modelling but on the other computer. Here are some photo's of the finished test print (one half of the manifold).

First test print a couple of hours in:

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Storm happens and takes out power to 3500 houses, so my print stopped. Just left it and when power came back on a few hours later it said it stopped unexpectedly and do I want to continue the job?

I thought, why not give it a go its only a test print.

The first problem was the head had melted a blob where is stopped so I snipped it off and then it moved to the outer edge and just started printing again!

Came back a while later to this lol

 

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On 18/02/2022 at 11:38, sheepers said:

its worth it though.

when all the painting is finished and you can stand back and admire.

then you get to take all the masking off and see all the places where you missed and there's overspray all over everything.

 

ahhh, happy days. 

Don't jinx me man!

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Finished modelling the other side of the intake adapter thing and printed with a finer quality, took over 24hrs to print!

Also added an adhesion layer to help with lifting around the edges which worked great. Easily removed afterwards too.

Got some strange stringing/hairy bits but only on the middle two faces, not sure why. Internally its perfectly smooth.

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Both together to make the complete manifold, you can see the print quality difference:

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Lines up nicely with the ITB's

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Looking at getting an all metal hot end for the printer and a hardened steel tip so I can try print it with Carbon Fibre Nylon filamnet. Trying to decide which filament to use, there are quite a few variations to look, I guess what ever handles the heat best. 

 

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, Mattwho? said:

Have a look at the BIQU H2 Extruder Hotend combo, can get them to run hot prints and should be fine for Carbon Nylon. Just installed mine and its great.

https://www.biqu.equipment/products/biqu-h2-v2-0-extruder

Love the build, exactly what I want to do with my NA8.

 

 

Thanks man, although I've ordered a Mellow one from Aliexpress already, should hopefully be good.

This one:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33035870412.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.0.0.622cf19cELrdsv

I reckon the NA8 would definitely need some bigger ITB's, maybe from a 1000cc bike but the idea is the same. I was tempted to put a 1.8 in mine but I like the way the 1.6 revs (its probably just the smaller flywheel to be honest but....:-)).

 

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1 hour ago, ~Slideways~ said:

Thanks man, although I've ordered a Mellow one from Aliexpress already, should hopefully be good.

This one:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33035870412.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.0.0.622cf19cELrdsv

I reckon the NA8 would definitely need some bigger ITB's, maybe from a 1000cc bike but the idea is the same. I was tempted to put a 1.8 in mine but I like the way the 1.6 revs (its probably just the smaller flywheel to be honest but....:-)).

 

Nice Mate, I had the triangle labs one, looks exactly the same and did a good job.

 

Looking at some GSXR1000 ITB's so hopefully they will be big enough!

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Sanding like a beach.

Last few low spots to fill last night, feel like maybe I'm going overboard a bit but on the other hand I can't bring myself to not fill these low spots after all this work.

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Front is looking good now. There were a couple of low spots in the centre which is now good.

 

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Next will be to prime it again with a more thinned down mix. Then maybe wet sand 400 grit, depends how well the primer goes on.

 

 

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