What are you using to print all this? My thought was always to make molds and pull some carbon fiber pieces. I have no clue about the printers, but have a friend who does military armor composites. He is kind of arrogant but I've spent some time in his shops helping out and understand the process a bit.

 

Where is the dyno numbers? Will it make to production ? Volante makes a system that pulls cold air from front and the original side cold air. https://www.summitracing.com/parts/v...SABEgJkiPD_BwE

"Screw the forum parrots
Regurgitating or squirting from their obviously loose rear sphincters things they think they heard/understand like it was original thought.
They don't' know what you know, can't do what you do, try what you've tried, own or drive what you drive, yet they will constantly squirt a diarrhea stream of opinion presented as fact.
Worse than irrelevant, taking up valuable space in conversation to run a post count up."

I was a aircraft mechanic 20 years, ASE Master mechanic 5 years and a shipboard engineer for Naval integrated ships defence systems 12 years. 69 xs29L what is your background?

 

Construction, mechanic, oilfield, little mining.
Dirty Hands, Clean Money, since 1980. Think that's how it goes.
Nobody said you weren't special too....but having a career doesn't mean you were exceptional at it or that you don't fall into the biases of looking at or doing things the same way every time, because the results were okay last time or that's how you were trained, or your theories ( by some fortune) have ever even been truly tested.
........and I tend to agree. Forums are long on parrot and short on real hard data, like a dyno. Said exactly that before. But,a dyno is torque constantly and fairly evenly applied in a 'lab' setting over a given RPM range. Tells you nothing about fuel mileage, throttle response with varying loads, performance in traffic or hot cold weather. Only part of the puzzle.
Anyone that does things differently, thinks outside Polly's cracker box, and gets results has my support.

 

Printer is a Bambu Lab X1C with a 254 x 254 x 254mm printing area. Plastic only. Everything from cheap PLA to carbn fiber-infused filaments. To make it production ready, I'd want to change a few things knowing now what it took to assemble it. A different 3D printing process may alleviate some or all of those issues. Ideally, it being a single piece would be best, and perhaps casting with machining would get me there. Don't know what it'd do to cost, but this is me jumping into the deep end with 3D printing and not starting or sticking to trinkets like 3D print people have done for so long.

I am aware of the Volant system pulling from two different sources. Probably mentioned them on this thread. Still like the idea and may execute something to that effect.

No plan for a dyno session presently. It does interest me, but it's $360+ in the PDX area, so I'll slow roll it for now. The butt dyno and subsequent positive testimony, while insufficient for some or many, will have to do. My goal was to make the truck breathe (and thus drive) better, and hopefully in a noticeable way, and that goal has been achieved. Now for the longevity testing, revisions, maybe some hard data, gauging interest, and seeing if I could make something people could be happy with.