Black & Tan 332iT

[Bry5on]

Progress continues..

First, I picked up the isofix cover that I had retrimmed in some e46 natural brown leather that heinzboehmer and I came across a few months back, finally:


Up next, we move back to 3D printing. I managed to fit the bigger screen into the ash tray dimensions, as above, and added some USB-C CarPlay and charge ports while I was at it. I tried to capture a bunch of photos to give a sense of the lighting match. It's actually pretty damn good, but the camera really struggles to capture it the same way as your eyes.

Open:

Closed:





After that insert as practice, I turned to the real project. A ZHP bumper brake duct to CSL airbox inlet duct and accordion flex boot. First I masked off the area to get some good measurements and a 3D scan with the iPhone faceid lidar sensor, which gave me the local area and surfaces I needed to route a duct:


Then off to the 3D printer for a first iteration. I used the entire build height of the printer, and actually needed a few mm more, so I nipped the top 5mm off of the printed part of the duct. You'll see below why this didn't really matter after installing the TPU printed flexible accordion boot. This is actually version 2:



It helped having an extra CSL flap to get dimensions, as this is an odd shape:


And after adding some mounting points to V3, we're in business. This piece uses two factory mounting points to secure in place along with the bumper opening to locate itself in 3D space. From there, the CSL airbox is installed from the top just as it is on the factory CSL. The flexible TPU piece in between has a groove that locks into the CSL flap just like stock, and is flexible enough to snap/pop in place on install. It also has double walls to locate on the duct itself to make sure it stays positioned, even as the engine vibrates at high revs. So, here it is:



You can see here how the flexible boot fully encompasses the section of print I had to notch out:


And lastly, a bit less exciting, the bracket for the PDC and trailer modules showed up from Europe, so I dropped that in:


All in all, a solid update I think.

[Bry5on]

So I recently bought a 3D printer and I’ve been practicing by making smaller things to learn the ropes before I jump into printing the ZHP-CSL duct and isolator boot.

So far I’ve experimented with TPA, ASA and ABS. I expect ABS will be my most popular material, and to that end, here’s an ash tray insert that I designed to hold a smaller 1.54” screen, along with gauge.s circuit board and GPS receiver. A print just finished for the bigger screen version (which clears to the half millimeter basically everywhere) that might replace this one, but here’s how it looks so far:



Here’s the big one:

[Bry5on]

On to the next project - does anyone have a 3D scanner in the Bay Area so I can get these dimensions right?

[0-60motorsports]

I have the same rear view mirror and love it. Dont even care where i threw the oval one LOL

[Bry5on]

I was home with a cold this weekend, so I made myself useful by tackling a couple little projects.
1: I repaired my black 996 calipers with the same fix I did to the red ones by bonding in the loose pins




2: I disassembled my M3 mirrors and created a functional bench setup for auto-dimming, along with wire harnesses that will be trimmed to length




3: I pulled the roof rail trim off and double-stick taped it to mimic what the factory did. I used 1/8" (3.2mm) tape, where the factory looked like 2mm. It fit just fine as the land for the tape is 3-3.5mm, a wagon takes about 10 yards.