[Ryan] of [Fat Lip Collective] has been on a streak of using 3D printing for his car mod projects. From spark plug adapters to exhaust pipes to dash panels, his CAD skills and additive manufacturing tech have played a number of roles in his process.
Most recently, [Ryan] has embarked on a mission to equip an ’80s-era Toyota KE70 Corolla with a turbo engine. The main question there being how to fit the engine back into the car once he’s inserted a salvaged turbo into the exhaust line.
There is a non-trivial amount of stuff that needs to be packed in with the rest of the engine and finding a working configuration that doesn’t get in the way of anything else requires some trial and error. Furthermore, the alignment of the many twisting and turning pieces of schedule 40 pipe that will direct gasses where they need to go needs to be pretty precise.
Juggling all of this would be tedious, time consuming, and error prone if it were not for [Ryan’s] mighty 3D printer. He printed a set of the different elbows and reducers modeled on the schedule 40 pipe that he would likely be using. He added degree markers for easy reference later and flat sections at the ends of each piece so they could be bolted to each other. With this kit of parts in hand, he was able to mock up different arrangements, re-configuring them as he considered the position of other nearby components.
The project is still ongoing. but we’re looking forward to seeing [Ryan] roaring around in his souped-up Corolla soon. In the meantime you can go deeper on ways of adding turbo to vehicles from the ’90s, the innovation of the Mercedes Formula 1 split turbo engine, and see the evolution of a 3D-printed pulsejet turbocharger.
Thanks to [Ryan Ralph] (not the same Ryan) for tipping us off.
All I’m saying is that there better be a thumping Eurobeat soundtrack to this video or I’m getting a refund
It’s a Japanese car, why would there be Eurobeat playing
https://initiald.fandom.com/wiki/Initial_D_Soundtrack
You may not know what eurobeat is
I just turned 50 and I got your reference 😎👌. Ignore these haters
Is this a joke ?
PVC schedule 40 pipe on an automotive exhaust ?
(where temps exceed 600 c and PVC pipe max rated temp is 60 c)
Seems like it would turn a molten puddle of plastic in short order.
Yeah, this comment is going to be my gold standard of how terrible the HaD comments section has become. Suggestions can be useful (sometimes), but this kind of negativity – from someone who hasn’t even bothered to watch the linked video – is just going to turn new makers off of this site.
New makers? The comments section here is like a retirement home
Ha, yeah, now that you’ve said it most of the comments here can be summarised as “get off my lawn”, “back in my day”, or “I don’t understand kids these days”
Dude(s) who know(s) EVERYTHING on every topic imaginable…
The problem isn’t the comments section. The core problem is twofold:
1) People posting YouTube videos instead of an article with photos. YouTube videos waste the readers’ time. I can scroll through and article to see the key points in a tiny fraction of the time it takes to watch a ???? minute YouTube video. If the only link in the article is a YouTube video, then I’m going to rely on the HaD writers’ summary.
2) HaD writers frequently writing inaccurate or woefully incomplete summaries. There’s hinting of doing a mockup, but then mentions schedule 40 pipe without specifying material. Yes, Sched 40 exists in materials other than PVC, but 99% of the time when someone says Schedule 40, it’s PVC – so if a different material is being used that needs to be in the summary. In addition, mocking up with 3D prints doesn’t exactly help as far as alignment because the alignment problems come from fabrication of the bends and distortion of the metal when welding.
I’ve said it multiple times but a comments section where the comments are just in chronological order is really not helping – whichever idiot gets in first with some awful hot take gets to be top comment forever, while the occasional awesome and insightful comment from someone with deep knowledge ends up 3 pages down because it takes a while to type.
This place desperately needs an upvote/downvote system on comments.
“He printed a set of the different elbows and reducers modeled on the schedule 40 pipe that he would likely be using.”
Steel, aluminum, PVC: many types of pipe come in schedule 40.
I’m sure the 3D printed bit is the intake pipe. I didn’t even have to watch the video to know that btw.
Also if it’s 3D printed then I’d assume it’s PETG or another heat resistant plastic. I’d think about anything other than PLA would work but I’d be very wary of heat cycling.
Also I don’t know where you get your PVC from but I have used PVC to plumb a larger radiator into one of my vehicles because the inlet & outlet were on the wrong side on the new radiator. Coolant routinely gets over 200F (especially in the middle of the Sonoran desert) plus is under not insignificant amount of pressure and I never had a problem.
Either that’s a wicked troll or you and the OP need to spend more time learning and less time commenting.
I was going to write about how sch 40 would have been previously used, but your lack-of-experience arrogance leaves me nothing to say to you. In my early 50s and this is the #1 reason people from the old generation don’t help the next generation…good luck.
Watch the video. He’s using 3d-printed pipe pieces to mock up a metal Sch 40 pipe set. Sch 40 is a pipe size, it’s not limited to PVC. Even if you didn’t already know that you could get metal Sch 40 piping, all you had to do to keep from looking ignorant is to watch the video where all of this is explained.
Funny how many ppl in these comments do not know how exhausts were locked up in the past, vs what’s being done here.
There’s a commercial product very similar to this (right down to the indexing marks) by a company called icengineworks. 3D printing your own version sounds like a good idea, especially if you require a non-standard bend/flange/connector etc.
(https://icengineworks.com/)
Thanks, I knew I’d seen this somewhere before.
Some people are borderline rtrded if not all the way. This 3d print is only a mockup, not the actual part, it has to be made out of metal.. only by looking to the side of the printed tubes, there’s a big chunk of side wall missing, how could anyone think that’s the actual pipes to be used?? And out of plastic???? That’s only a model to get the actual shape of what needs to be done out of metal..