Anyone have a 3d printer or know the rates?

[Larry Callahan]

If the price isn't crazy I would like to make one of my plenums on a 3d printer before I buy material, write all the programs and machine them to make sure they fit.

Here is a picture of the plenum. I need to make one of the orange parts.

Here is a picture of my intake so far. https://www.pro-touring.com/larry/corky/images/152-5298_IMG.jpg

[Rubes]

Hey Larry, we (Honeywell) have had some stuff done by this place;
http://www.expresspattern.com/rapid.prototyping.html

You could email them an STL file to get a quote;
Meaghan English-Guttman
[email protected]

If I had to guess...I'd say $800

[B Schein]

I have done some FDM rapid prototyping and I can tell you those would be expensive to make @$5.00 per in^2; they would require a lot of support material.

[B Schein]

What did you model those on it look like Master Cam to me.

[Larry Callahan]

3d printing looks more expensive then I thougt it would be. I will send a file out out for some quotes just to be sure.

There is a company behind me that can/will make them on a machine that uses a laser and can make them from stainless but they are busy running 24/7 and I don't want to ask them to stop production for a favor. We trade work once in a while but that's a big one to ask.

[Larry Callahan]

What did you model those on it look like Master Cam to me.

Yep, Mastercam 9

I just can't find the time to make the switch to X2

[B Schein]

Yeah rapid prototyping is pretty dam expressive I have seen some parts that were made on one of the new machines that can make metal parts I have know Idea what that process is called but it pretty awesome that they can do that.

Master Cam X2 inset that much different a lot of shortcut have been changed, but it always hard to get used to a new version of a program you know well.

[robert irvin]

Edelbrock makes some 3D stuff to test their own. Maybe a phone call to them would give them something to do if the machines are down with no prototype work at the time. Just a thought..
Bob

[clay johnson]

Larry,

I sent you an email regarding you 3d printing request.. email me.

[hdesign]

We use a couple of model makers that have a variety of methods of prototyping. Check out www.scottmodels.com and www.dynacept.com. They might be able to at least steer you in the right direction.

[96Z28SS]

Cheapest thing to do would probably be get it machined. Get a 2 part high density foam mix and make your self a box just slight bigger and pour the foam in it let it harden then get it machined since its easy to cut, they can cut it real fast and done in less hours. thus costing a lot less than machining an aluminum piece.

[bingham72]

There was a HotRod magazine article not long ago where they built a carburated intake for an LSx motor. It might have been Edelbrock. Super cool technology! I'd be curious to know what it actually costs to do something like this if you don't mind sharing the numbers.
I wonder if it's cheaper than injection molding? I spoke with a guy about that and it was 60k to setup tooling.

[Larry Callahan]

Thanks everyone for the help. I may some day do the rapid prototype. I didn't know it was that expensive. So, I cut a few parts on our wire EDM and tacked them together to simulate the box size. Check it out.