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06-07-2019, 11:00 AM
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I am waiting on hardware before I can really work on the internals and now I am waiting on more silk silver PLA before I can start printing the head castings so I am jumping around to see what some of the other external pieces are gonna look like. I printed this LH exhaust header on my home made printer, Printalicious..
Because my Black Widow printer is spending the next 20 hours printing out the intake manifold..
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06-09-2019, 02:17 PM
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DC Crew
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This LS3 build is moving right along. I am already precision balancing internals..
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06-10-2019, 05:00 AM
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RACING...Because with baseball, football, basketball, tennis, and golf, you only need one ball
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06-10-2019, 07:01 AM
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That's looking great. I'm afraid Id have to complain to GM Customer Service about the excess casting marks on the intake. The resolution doesn't look so good in the pic.
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06-13-2019, 05:06 PM
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DC Crew
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The parts I ordered from https://www.makerrx.com/ have shown up. Here is how the LS3 hardware kit comes packaged..
And here are the timing 'chain' the valve springs, and the rod, main, and camshaft bearings..
Now i can start working on the crank and the cam. But first, I need a stand to bolt the block to. Here is how the engine stand arrived..
So i have my work cut out for me before i can even get this motor on a stand. Looks like i might need the dremel.
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06-13-2019, 05:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1963SS
That's looking great. I'm afraid Id have to complain to GM Customer Service about the excess casting marks on the intake. The resolution doesn't look so good in the pic.
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I can do better. I printed the intake with a 0.4mm diameter nozzle and 0.2mm layer height. I could change nozzles to a 0.2mm and command a 0.025mm layer height. It will just take days to print. But should look flawless.
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06-14-2019, 11:56 AM
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This is awesome
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06-15-2019, 02:07 PM
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I wonder How Hard I can hit till an Epyltic Siezure takes place and He Dies.
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06-15-2019, 02:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Maniacmechanic1
I wonder How Hard I can hit till an Epyltic Siezure takes place and He Dies.
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07-07-2019, 09:31 PM
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So I got to spend some time with my fun project and I got all the pieces of the crankshaft printed out..
And assembled..
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07-07-2019, 09:35 PM
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And here are a few pictures of the crankshaft sitting in the block..
I still have to fit and run a drill bit through the holes on each of the main caps to get the crank locked in place. And then I can start on the rods and pistons. I still have to build the engine stand at some point here, too.
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07-08-2019, 10:21 AM
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You're doing an awesome job Wiz
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RACING...Because with baseball, football, basketball, tennis, and golf, you only need one ball
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08-26-2019, 10:37 PM
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But I can't stand the 2 tone engine stand. I am drawing up and printing out covers for the raw aluminum so the frame is a solid color.
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08-27-2019, 02:48 PM
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Even the engine stand is cool.
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09-01-2019, 10:40 PM
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As we all age and time moves forward tech keeps advancing and my stuff I bought and setup last year is looking pretty old and showing it's age today. So in an effort to stay relevant I am taking the best printer I have and upgrading it with all the new bells and whistles of the day. Woot!
So the printer I am going to upgrade is my already heavily modified Tevo Black Widow Printer. This printer is supposed to look like this:
My Black Widow in it's current configuration looks more like this:
But now it is time to reinvent this machine. Most notably I am dumping the external control box in favor of mounting all parts to the frame. It will make for a smaller footprint for this machine. But also I am upgrading the PC wheels to linear rails and changing the controller to a 32 bit smoothie board that will run marlin 2.0 and I am installing the Prusa MMU2S upgrade kit. This will let me print in 5 colors and will be a HUGE upgade to my printer. To ensure sucess the first time out i ordered a genuine upgrade kit from Prusa Research instead of a cheap knockoff. I will post up pictures of my new printer as i build it.
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