the part is available it took me 30 seconds to find it, you will never find stuff using engineering part numbers use the JLR classic catalog.

they’re still stocked at about $250 a piece

 

Maybe you could share a link and the Jag part # ?

 

C2P4156 and 7

use jlr classic parts go to radiator you’ll see it

 

Ya, just found 'em once I knew they were called deflectors.

 

I was unable to find it using the C8C9A number off the part, that's my first point of reference.

Ł250.. the cost for me to print a replacement in the carbon material is around Ł5 worth of material, a 1kg reel of carbon filament costs under Ł30. I am not prepared to pay Ł250 for a piece of abs plastic, I can get abs filament and print it using that if I want a material match.

If I spent Ł500 on two of these deflectors I would need them to deflect wifeys rage!!!!! Lol.

 

Had to order a new hotend and nozzles for the big printer, still dialling it in, printing the PLA-CF is being a bit of a pain I had to get steel nozzles as it wears the brass ones. on this one. Probably a few more adjustments tomorrow and another test print and it should (hopefully ) be good.

Also getting some ABS-CF and some ABS-GF ( glass fibre strand ) to try for the large panels as these have a higher heat tolerance.

 

Tonight's the night!! The first print is running, 14 hours to go....

I am hoping all goes well if not at least I have something to check and adjust the printer against.

Going to be up and down tonight checking it over...
I really hope this goes well. I will update again once I have something to show. This print is the Pla-cf filament.

 

Nice Buck! Looking forward to seeing the results!

I'm hoping to talk you into printing the plastic cover under the armrest next.
There are maybe a dozen entire armrests for sale on ebay.
Every single one has these corners broken off which is indicative of the latch mechanism being toast.

I'd guess you'd make a killing on this as a side gig on ebay.

 

well all was going good it seems then there was a filament break at somepoint during the night and it was printing air for a while. I just cleaned the hotplate and moved the filament to a new location that doesnt strain it and set it off again.
I may need to move it again yet as it could happen again. It does seem a lot happier feeding the filament now its been moved though.

14 hours to go!!

 

Left the print running overnight and checked on it this morning. All finished and it looks ok. I am going to strengthen the two arms a little and re- run it today. Will test fit it shortly.

 

The small angles mount next to my thumb needed revising and the angle adjusting as this hole didnt line up it was around a half the diameter off center to the hole on the frame. I have adjusted it and the new one is printing at the moment, i also included the two ribs i forgot and also the base fillet radius at the modified lower mount, the arma are now reinforced also, I will check that tomorrow and if its good print the other one.

The original is Polypropylene with 20% talc so I will order some Polypropylene plain and with carbon fibre filament as its not expensive from Amazon it has a dimensional accuracy of +/- 0.03mm so it will be good enough for part prints.

 

Awesome unka back

 

Not a happy bunny tonight, just went to check the print and it had errored out two thirds of the way through and I couldn't continue the print.

Cleaned the build plate and set it off again. Grrrrrrr.

 

Print just finished, no issues and it fitted first time.

I need to find tune the printer nozzle distance to the build plate today and try a brim print method instead of the raft type to get a better initial surface finish. Other than that all is good.

The arms have been reinforced with a full length rib also.

My new filament arrives tomorrow so I will run the final two off then.

I am testing another part on the printer at the moment also.

 

So those ones aren't durable enough at the moment? I have some prints that can withstand a beating while other prints about fall apart by picking them up. The same PLA spool did them all. (not my printer, my kid's)

 

No this is fine along with the other one that hasn't got the bigger reinforcement rib however these were to test the design and to get the bed calibration done for large items as it is a 300x300 build plate.

It takes time to dial in the optimal bed temp and print temp also feed speeds for the CF and gf filament.

Printing the polypropylene will be another whole issue as it doesn't like sticking to anything but itself so I might need to get the pp build plate.

The abs will run fine as does the hyper Pla-cf I also use.

So I will run two of these in polypropylene tomorrow then fit them on the car ready for the nose cone.

All is good I am just a fussy old engineer!!

 

After a lot of thought and the added cost of a PP build plate etc I am going to skip the polypropylene filament, to much of a headache for now.

The carbon fibre reinforced hyper pla will do for the deflectors, the same with the boot vents and teh quater glass mounts, also the cost per roll is much much cheaper.

the abs needs my bed to hit at least 90 degrees and keep constant and i know the temp can fluctuate with it not being in an enclosure.

I am looking at the Bambu P1S printer as its a good buy and good print resolution for all the carbon filament prints I have planned.