2000 AWD Xploder from Turbo back to NA

[Fix4Dirt]

Which 3d scanner did you get?

 

[willzilla]

Which 3d scanner did you get?

The Creality Otter Lite, ( Hot Sale) Otter Lite 3D Scanner. It's pretty nice... I like how I can wirelessly scan with my phone, or, I can run a wifi bridge to my PC and wirelessly scan on my phone while using my PC GPU for extra power. Super easy to use.

Here's a test scan and print I did of an Owl figurine:

 

[willzilla]

I went to the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan last week... Figured everyone would like to see this:

 

[willzilla]

Finally began working on the Xploder some, lol... New rear rotors and pads:

Even did a video for my neglected YouTube channel, lol...



Fronts hopefully tomorrow or the next day and the front upper control arms.

 

[willzilla]

Installed new front rotors and pads... the pads on the front and back both super worn... oof, lol... rotors rusty and just were not in a good state. Installed power stop rotors front and back with power stop ceramic brakes.

The sleigh bell noise appears to be gone, so... it seems loose or rusty brake clips or something was the source of the annoying sound, lol.

New front upper control arms this weekend or next weekend depending on time... My 16 year old daughter needed the Xploder to drive to/from school the next few days so I didn't have time to install them this evening and get an alignment done in time. Wild... she was 2 years old when I started this thread and is now driving the Xploder, haha. Sheesh, time really does fly. My son wasn't even born yet when this started and is almost 14 now :-/... Throwback from page 9 of the thread:

The bottom middle daughter in the photo is the one driving the Xploder now mostly, lol.. Top second from the right was driving the Xploder a few years ago until she got her own car. Far left daughter is currently in Navy bootcamp... I recently took over her old room and turned it into a 3d print/work room still a work in progress:

Just finished a 2 day 3d print of an "evil pumpkin" on my new larger 500x500x450mm printer using ASA filament (heat and UV resistant), turned out pretty awesome I think...

I've been printing a lot of multi color emblems lately for Camaros and have them dialed in pretty nice:

I think I'll be doing an XPLODER emblem soon, lol. I've also begun repairing my a pillar trim piece and gluing the tabs back together. I may need to 3d print a section that's missing and glue that in to finish the repair. I'd like to 3d print a replacement housing for the auto lamp sensor if I can figure out what it looks like as mine shattered into a million pieces, lol.

Well, sorry for the long post... hope everyone else is doing well!

 

[willzilla]

Having some fun with chat gpt and my car

 

[410Fortune]

Oh man I want a nice v8 emblem the ones I have I paint the v8 inset part and a few months later the paint is gone

That pumpkin came out awesome

Keep up the great work

 

[willzilla]

Oh man I want a nice v8 emblem the ones I have I paint the v8 inset part and a few months later the paint is gone

That pumpkin came out awesome

Keep up the great work

Thank you! I'm actually thinking of 3d modeling and printing some v8 emblems... maybe I should get on that sooner rather than later!

 

[willzilla]

Oh man I want a nice v8 emblem the ones I have I paint the v8 inset part and a few months later the paint is gone

That pumpkin came out awesome

Keep up the great work

Do you have a photo of the specific v8 emblem you are talking about? I'm trying to see which one I should model up

 

[410Fortune]

Mine is lame Amazon v8 emblem

Something that has a cobra with a v8 symbol would be *****in blue and or red

https://a.co/d/2lrWrWN

I would buy a few of them

 

[willzilla]

Mine is lame Amazon v8 emblem

Something that has a cobra with a v8 symbol would be *****in blue and or red

https://a.co/d/2lrWrWN

I would buy a few of them

That would be simple enough especially with leaving the base on it like that... I can do individual V8 letters/numbers with no like flat base but I haven't figured out an optimal way to have perfectly cut doubled sided tape to attach to it on the back, lol... a flat plate base is simple with just regular double sided tape roll. What dimensions would you say these are?

 

[410Fortune]

1.5” tall

3m trim adhesive or e6000 hobby glue will hold Emblems in place with just a dab or two

 

[willzilla]

1.5” tall

3m trim adhesive or e6000 hobby glue will hold Emblems in place with just a dab or two

Ok, cool. Yeah, I know some adhesive makes things easy but for the stuff I sell on my shop most people expect emblems to come with some 3m double sided tape so they can just peel and slap it on their vehicles. Super easy for the emblems with a flat rectangular base as I can just apply some from a roll. The emblems that are without a base and just the lettering/numbers are much more difficult as I don't have a method yet to get some 3m double sides tape cut to match the lettering. I have a super nice Silhouette cutter machine but need to find like sheets of double sided 3m that I can insert and have the machine cut to size, lol.

I finished up my SS 3d model I had people asking me for and will toss them on my shop page soon but will work on a v8 emblem later today

 

[410Fortune]

That looks great!

I could see how trimming the tape to
Match the base of the emblem could be
Laborous and that stuff is hard to cut cleanly
For those emblems add a small bottle of adhesive to the order lol and some masking tape

Or I guess have to xacto knife some double sided tape

 

[willzilla]

Yeah, I'm going to see if I can find sheets of the 3m double sided tape that I can feed into my cutter.. that would make things super easy!

I'll work on some v8 emblems this weekend and do some prints and see how they look