"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/16/2016 at 13:30 • Filed to: None

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DISCUSSION (20)

S65 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/16/2016 at 13:33

Eels,Daisies of the Galaxy

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E90M3 > S65
11/16/2016 at 13:42

Are you a robot that only posts:

Eels

mountain bikes

random Japanese cars

cars in a neighborhood in Maryland

S65 > E90M3
11/16/2016 at 13:43

I posted a plane once

and 100 more > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/16/2016 at 14:03

DAT ASS, SUN.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > and 100 more
11/16/2016 at 14:06

Of Datsun butts, this is the buttiest.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/16/2016 at 14:07

Sir-Mix-A-Lot approves.

and 100 more > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/16/2016 at 14:09

Kinja'd!!!

KnowsAboutCars > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/16/2016 at 14:18

All this talk about Cherry coupes but no mention of the race cars?

punkgoose17 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/16/2016 at 15:24

The B pillar graphic looks similar to the one on the Alfa Montreal. :)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > punkgoose17
11/16/2016 at 15:38

True. Hadn’t thought of that.

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/16/2016 at 19:27

“Hurr durr mah blindspots tho”

No one cares! Let us enjoy things.

sdwarf36 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/16/2016 at 23:25

Our version wasn’t much better.

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > sdwarf36
11/17/2016 at 09:01

I think almost everybody got both versions except maybe the US. The one in my pic is just the early version which is now seemingly really rare.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/17/2016 at 22:05

These are all being cannibalized for those taillights, with people putting them on early Skylines and Laurels.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > PanchoVilleneuve ST
11/18/2016 at 09:06

PanchoVilleneuve ST > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/18/2016 at 10:31

It’s sad, really, since it’s a 70s Japanese car that isn’t a Skyline, Z, 510, Celica or TE27/37 Corolla/Sprinter, which means there’s no source for repro parts for them. It’s tragically unfair that a car like a Hakosuka, where you can literally replace every body panel with factory-perfect carbon fiber pieces, winds up being the recipient of a rare part that from a rare car that will likely never be made again.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > PanchoVilleneuve ST
11/18/2016 at 10:56

Two step process for fixing this shit:

1. Start making the damn lights as repros. Not only bring the cost down so nobody’s killing Cherries, but nuke the problem by Syndrome axiom. “When everyone is special - no one will be”

2. Use money from selling repro taillights to hoard all kinds of Cherry Coupe.

Actually, now that I think about it, there are a lot of specialty rear lights out there that cannot be had new at any price, to include Cortina. I wonder what it would take to ensure a repro passed DOT spec - or you might just skip that part. “Not legal for highway use”, hurr hurr. Anyway, injection molding of clear red and amber items of the size of rear lights is a small enough operation that it could be done in a large garage. I should put this in my list of “things that will work as cottage industry for eBay”.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/18/2016 at 11:10

Remember how 3D printing was supposed to be the rapid-protyping savior of obscure old car parts? Because at this point I think that may have been a dream.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > PanchoVilleneuve ST
11/18/2016 at 11:41

I think that might still be waiting on selective laser sintering/melting or other metal/ceramic 3d print techniques to have greater market penetration. Remember, few off is almost infinitely preferable to one off, and making the making of a *die* easier is important from a materials standpoint.

If a guy is 3d printing a small part that costs $20 in material and can only sell it for $25, it’s not going to take off. If a guy can make a part for $200 that can make parts for $5 that sell at $25, he’s paid for in ten parts. Right now, that metal/ceramic part is a $2000+ part, but today’s plastic $20 part was yesterday’s $200 part, so there *is* hope.

As to making full strength metal rare parts, SLM offers some hope, but a better option will probably be economizing foam printing for large table sand casts, with a couple of machining steps. Making a blank for a repro lycoming straight eight is a much bigger hurdle than getting said blank sleeved, decked, through-bored, and otherwise finished and cleaned up - so being able to generate the blank as a foamcast pattern of a certain resolution and have techniques for microfacility casting lined up - that’s where we hit the event horizon.

Basically, what I want for metal is a mini-furnace for iron cast up to ~5'x3', and a two-media (water soluble foam and insoluble?) printer with a table up to nearly that size. Resolution within 1/8" would be okay for that, so the scaling costs for precision wouldn’t be bad.

The mini-furnace tech already pretty much exists for aluminum, just not high nickel iron cast yet, that I’m aware of.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > PanchoVilleneuve ST
11/18/2016 at 11:42

Oh, and what I said about foam casts would also enable making iron body dies. Probably best to make them in parts to keep weight down, but body panel repros become doable as well.