Building a DIY Wide Body Kit for my Lamborghini Murcielago

In todays episode we're 3d printing a custom wide bodykit or my Lamborghini Murcielago sema build.

Huge thanks to creality for providing us with the 3d printers, if youre in the market for a 3d printer be sure to check them out!

Music:
Fareoh - Cloud Ten

[Reman]

A mate used to 3d print large stuff for prototyping at his job. We were chatting about it once and he mentioned that when he needed to join large and relatively flat pieces together he'd design in small tongue and grooves around the edge, he'd then paint a little acetone on the joins to "Melt" the surface layer, and put the parts together. Apparently, the tongue and groves made it simple to align everything quickly, and as soon as the acetone evaporated it wasn't so much "pieces glued together", but more like one solid piece of harmonious plastic.

Just thought I'd mention that in case the info was useful.

[rmnepro]

Even though I loved the boat content because it was different for me personally, It is refreshing to see you guys tackle another SEMA build & I’m looking forward to see what happens with this project. Awesome work guys !! 🔥

[reconmotorsports]

Lars says “you wouldn’t download a car, don’t download our music”. Fast forward 25 years and Chris says hold my beer.

[sgavy]

Be careful when taking moulds of your pla printed parts. If the resin exotherms, the heat can distort the prints a little and you can get the infill pattern printing through to the mould surface. Ask me how i know 😅

[sjcperformance]

Please get with your wheel sponsor and have them make some custom wheels that require no spacers. It will look so much better. Great job so far!

[chrislizotte]

Sema crunch time is always nuts on this channel. So excited for the next couple months of videos!

[vocks]

It’s your SEMA build man it deserves the redesign

[TheRealMrRoyal]

So happy we're back to some car content!!!! I've been skipping a few pontoon videos.

[joealex]

I know it might never happen, but i would love to see you work with TofuAutoworks for some tips and tricks to properly make molds for the widebody kit, that man has some great talent working (and sanding) with fiberglass!

[mukhtar__]

oh look, finally a car video that'll actually watch
wow, funny how that works

[hunzilasameer]

thank god a car buid video was tired of boat videos

[mrpanama]

Thank Goodness Back To Car Building, Now I Can Start Watching Again.

[paulbouchard]

Be careful with your time line for Sema without oscar

[christianmeinking]

A tip! I’ve done a bunch of 3D printed parts for my Street Rod, and actually used the fiberglassed PLA parts with great success… but ”Wurth Re-plast” has been a gamechanger. I’m not sure if you can get it in the states, but it is essentially a 2-part glue developed with one purpose: glueing plastic bumpers and such, with extremely quick curing and high strength. No need for plastic welding.

[clayton]

A couple suggestions for you Chris: Use ORCA Slicer and cut the pieces with a keyway so they slot together easier. Also, consider using a AR app on your phone to place the 3d part virtually on the real car before spending hours printing it. That would have caught the design flaw. Some newer iphones use a lidar camera and it's accurate enough to give you a good ballpark.

[Etienne_Diecast]

Mad respect to this channel, but do not understand why sema builds get rushed always when avoidable.

[mattiasfagerlund]

For me, whenever I try to create indexing structures - like BifB is doing using dowel pins and holes, I create a sketch and extrude it with a 45 taper angle. Then I subtract that feature from the mating side. I offset either the the extruded faces or the cut faces by 0.1mm and I have an alignment feature that literally takes seconds to design and prints super exact - unless you rotate the part. Holes are hard to print unless they're vertical, but 45 degree features are usually very easy to print. One feature isn't enough, but two are typically enough to align very close to what you want. Not very strong and this application you'd have to glue them with something like superglue, but I've made hundreds throughout the years and they've all come out fine.

[JF-]

Would it make sense to print puzzle joints between the pieces that need to be glued together. Seems like that would increase the strength of the joint a lot.

[Snowcruizer]

As much as the pontoon yacht fascinates me am I'm looking forward to it being done, I'm glad to have a break and back to cars

[craigcampbell]

I’ll keep watching anyway because I enjoy your channel’s transparency and seeing how you learn and overcome mistakes but MAN do I hate widebodies.