Even more 3D modelling! Using Fusion 360 to make more complicated car parts!

Number 2 of 2 videos on how I 3D model parts for my car...
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Chapters
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:50 Steering Wheel Hook
0:27:25 Induction Manifold
1:17:00 Summary
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[@themistoklisanastasiadis]

for scaling the image, you can right click on the canvas, click calibrate, click two points and enter the distance between them. that way you avoid the math and the potential decimal error of the scaling.

[@MrMausTrap]

^^This^^ (for anyone reading the comments)

[@JohnnyJiuJitsu]

I’ve watched a lot of fusion tutorials. I started this video thinking a noob was going to make a hook and walked away learning a ton. I was really impressed with all the tips. Great video!

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Nope! A noob just modelled a few other bits too! I don’t do enough to get really slick, but I normally get where I want to go!

[@bwm999]

Perfect timing. Installed 360 recently& have an ender 3 v2 on the xmas list. Inlet manifold, Dynamic crank balancing jig, ecu case, dash lcd case, engine build tools/jigs are all on the to-do list 👍🏻

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Dynamic crank balancing??? 😍😍😍 garage dreams!!

[@bwm999]

@@MakingforMotorsport watch the last couple of videos on the “the GADGET playlist” channel 😉

[@TravisFabel]

Hell yeah, even more modeling!

[@elitesennabubble]

you can hit X on the keyboard to toggle construction lines on and off

[@vinster8884]

After the first video, I felt confident enough to make my own part. It was simple and took some trial and error but is what I wanted. Thanks!

[@MakingforMotorsport]

That’s great to hear!

[@lindkvistandreas]

this was awesome, thank you David for sharing this!.. (i learned alot from this.. struggeling with fusion 360 here)

[@MakingforMotorsport]

No problem bud! That’s why I’m here! 👍

[@jeffharrison5265]

It took me some time to set aside and hour + , but well worth it. Great video! Surprised the level in the wine glass stayed steady. LoL. Agreed, Lars does an excellent job. I've watched a few now. Again, great job and thanks for making this video. Cheers!

[@MakingforMotorsport]

No problem Jeff, it’s a long slog this video but a few people seem to get alot out of it so that makes it all worth it!

[@leviathan0232]

Man these videos have been amazing! Thank you so much for all the info! I’m getting everything ready for this winter to convert my 1982 Honda Magna to EFI and your videos have been insanely valuable. I’ll need to do way less manifold wise but this info is incredibly valuable. I’m taking some VFR800 TBs, a Speeduino, and my 3D printer to make magic 😎 all the Magna old heads are up their ass about me not wanting to keep screwing with carbs on a V4 but they’ll be the first asking how I did it lmao Edit: forgot to add that I was considering a microsquirt (just because I’m more familiar with them) but your videos have me wanting to tackle a full Speeduino build, starting with a bare board and making my own ECU housing lol

[@gFeeley]

For centering the image you can use inspect tool and measure from construction lines to the edges of drawing.

[@802Garage]

I'm craving the next episode so I'm going back through some of your other work, hahaha.

[@aussie1926]

Good to see you took on some of the suggestions i gave in the last video. Done a fair bit of modling but everyones brains think differently so is very interesting to watch. I plan to do a manifold to add another injector per cyclinder on my race engine. See if a 3d print will handle boost. Rwpracing youtube has a few videos of my race stuff.

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Every days a school day! I love that theres no absolute right or wrong way to model (but maybe some are better than others!)... Best of luck with your project, I reckon adding in a bar or 2 of boost might just make it interesting!!!

[@aussie1926]

@@MakingforMotorsport bar or 2? Already run 3 bar lol

[@Dreadz530]

For the picture part.. 28:41 .. I’m not sure if android offers anything like it but with the newer iPhone models (pro max at least) they have a special “document scanner” to use if you are wanting to use it as “scanner”. You can either long press on the Notes app and you’ll see the shortcut to scan a document or you can open a note and click the photo symbol. It will pop up with a few options and you want to select to scan the document. It uses an algorithm to scan what you are trying to upload and it uploads the document or item completely flat as if it were to be scanned instead of taken from a single point and causing the distortion. Before you had to make sure you were perfectly over the top and level when taking the picture if you were going to try to use it for a file. At one point (still in camera mode today) it had a leveling cross to make you sure your phone was perfectly lined up flat. Now when using the scanner you can let it scan something from a random distance and angle (even 45°) and you will see it highlight the item and start to process it and then it will pop up with a perfectly straight image with no distortion. The algorithm is able to produce a file that has the effect as if it had been scanned instead of getting the distortion that you’d get from taking a regular picture for the dimensions. It allows you to to create a picture the same way as if you had physically moved the camera to scan it the same way a real one one works. Its surprisingly accurate and I never really have in trouble with it. After finding the document scanner and looking up how it was different compared to taking a picture to make a file I honestly find myself using it 9/10 times if I’m taking a picture of something I plan to mark up or whatever (be used as file and worked or edited vs screenshot or snapping a picture to edit or fill out)

[@ErwinKnapen]

thank you!

[@willbennett7508]

I’m doing CAD at college on my motorsport course and I must say your a better teacher ahah

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Cheers bud, I now know I'm slightly less boring than a boring person....

[@rennch.]

These videos are great. Learning a ton from you. On this drawing, did you consider bringing the bolts in from the front or backside and splitting the roll bar hole vertically? I thought it might make the bolt situation a bit less complicated, but I'm no engineer.

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Bringing them in from the front would’ve been a great idea 🤦‍♂️😂

[@rennch.]

@@MakingforMotorsport LOL, always easier to see from the sidelines...

[@JohnnyJiuJitsu]

That would of been too easy. We need a challenge in this tutorial :)

[@frisoschlottau1998]

I love this channel! For anyone wondering "how bad is the paralax?" I used an iphone 13pro at 3x zoom and after calibrating 100mm in the middle of the field of view/middle 1/3 of the ruler, the outer thirds were off by about 400um. Scanner it is!

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Loving the science my friend! If it’s flat, the scanner is the way forward!!!

[@davenewell5810]

Excellent pair if vids Dave, very informative. I made steering wheel hooks to mount to the rollcage for my MX5 and for a couple of other hillclimbers with detachable wheels but I made very simple "S" shaped hooks that simply hook over the rollcage tube with a double sided sticky pad to hold it in place. I shall be doing a similar job with the inlet manifold for my MX5 except I am currently using freecad (although I have also got fusion360 so may go down that route. One of the biggest differences is the inlet ports in my head are oval and obviously the ITBs are round so plenty of fun yet to be had. Currently working on a flowbench so I can measure the airflow improvement (or otherwise) with different cams and before and after some light porting work. All will eventually be on my channel. Keep the shiny side up mate :-)

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Sounds fantastic, I need a road based play car… MX5s could be just the ticket! I always recommend Fusion360 and the “Loft” function will handle the oval to round transition no problems…. Flow measuring kit is definitely on the list… it’d nice to try and learn the black art of flowing heads! Cheers 👍

[@davenewell5810]

@@MakingforMotorsport MX5 (Mk1 preferably but I am biased) is a great fun weekend car. Mine is a pure hillclimb car now but was a plain ordinary road car when I bought it, Daughter had one and wife had one and both loved them, I even "borrowed" my wife's Mk2 August bank holiday Saturday 2017 to do a hillclimb with as I had taken a year off but missed it too much. Shared the car with a mate who used to run a 3 door Cossie Sierra in Mod prod (330-440BHP switchable) and he reckoned the wifes stock 1998 MX5 handled better on 20 year old suspension than the sierra ever did. I like the look of Fusion 360 and will make an effort to use it. Holding fire on designing the manifold as the port dimensions will almost certainly change with the porting work.

[@gafrers]

Nice to learn some tips and streamlining. Hoping for a Gearbox video one of these days

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Hmmm… what you thinking there gafrers??? 2 speed gearbox or the general???

[@gafrers]

@@MakingforMotorsport 2 speed Autotest specific. The one in your Mini or similar

[@MakingforMotorsport]

@@gafrers I will definitely do one, might be a next year now tho….

[@gafrers]

@@MakingforMotorsport No rush

[@PhantomMark]

The only reason you don't have a million subs is because people didn't find you yet, you do some awesome stuff on this channel mate :) I went full standalone ECU on the Volvo in the end, it wasn't the cheap option but it was definitive - I now have a running driving car :D

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Oh hi there! The Volvo jumped into my head a few weeks ago… which one did you go with?

[@PhantomMark]

@@MakingforMotorsport ECU Master, I got the full dash setup with a canbus button system etc to go with it as well, done it proper, painful price tho buddy, I wish I had half your talent !!! Hoping to make some bushes soon using one of your old vids, they don't make poly bushes for the derivative of T5 I have, the police spec cars had slightly different suspension (my car is ex Police)

[@tokyhenintsoa6505]

hell yeah, more

[@MakingforMotorsport]

I’m gonna try and include more in the general videos I think and every so often do one like this… but not often as this took AGES to edit 😂

[@tokyhenintsoa6505]

@@MakingforMotorsport thank you so much 😁👌 do you think that solidworks can do the same thing like 360 fusion?

[@cliffweatherbee6914]

A bit of tips for creating those holes. You can use the actual hole command. It has settings that will help you countersink the bolt heads as well as the nut inserts. Or, if you feel like it's strong enough, you can model the actual threads (using a size slightly smaller than the actual threads, but same thread pitch) then run a tap (or die depending on what you're making) all in that hole command! It REALLY comes in handy to make those little tweaks all in one swift motion!

[@Dreadz530]

Are you still able to use the projection method like he did for the placement and alignment of them?

[@cliffweatherbee6914]

@@Dreadz530 I've been able to. Sometimes you have to project them or slice the view in order to snap to it.

[@TRB4571]

When you want test the fit you can print 0.5mm as template insted of the 50mm. Nice video i think you could gain a lot using hotkeys like the x 😜 The spacing of the holes could have been done as a linar array around your center, drawn only half and used your centerline.

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Yeah, I am not a power user by any means, but I think that’s part why the video still gets views because i don’t whip straight through it people can follow. If I just pro’d my way through… I’d leave people behind!

[@djordjeblaga7815]

30:50 Right click on the canvas on the left and select "calibrate", it will do the math for you ;)

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Nice!!! First thing I’ve learnt! I’ll try that!

[@davecoggan9619]

Nice video mate, I've recently learnt surface and form workspace and it's incredible how you change the way you think about designing. 3d scanning with a revopoint pop and creality cr-scan 01 really takes the difficulty out of designing in those workspaces. i have done a fusion video on my youtube channel here if you want to have a look. Next level stuff!

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Oh man you are a few steps ahead of me! What is accuracy of those scanners? They are definitely on the list of future toys….

[@davecoggan9619]

@@MakingforMotorsport I've seen you on a Facebook group mate. I'll PM you if you want more info

[@allandriver2066]

Why not split the top vertically.....?

[@peNKku]

Pro tip, when you insert the canvas, dont scale it, just enter how it its. Then on the left side of the screen select the canvas you added and mouse2 click and select calibrate. No need for math, and you have the ruler ready in the canvas so its easy job.

[@MakingforMotorsport]

I didn’t know about this shortcut… cheers 👍

[@idus]

Very awesome. Always wondered that.

[@nes3382]

You make it look way too easy, thanks for the inspiration! My own set of 3d printed ITB's are in the making. Might improve power, might not, the fun is in the designing. Even then, itb's have a 100% chance to make an addictive induction note.

[@MakingforMotorsport]

It’s all in the practice… and trust me, in the range of people 3D modelling I am very much at the beginner end! Just get stuck in, pick up some tips from where and there and practise them.. you’ll be flying in no time!

[@nes3382]

@@MakingforMotorsport Thanks for the tutorial! got myself some yamaha tb's and i'm currently making the final touches to my inlet manifold and this tutorial is really helping! If you're interested this is going on the m44 in my E36 318IS.

[@MakingforMotorsport]

If I am interested in an E36 with an M44? Hell yeah! You can’t tell from the channel yet but I am a major Beemer guy, I’ve has E30, E36, E91, F20 and my current work car is a 330e G20, my favoritr was the E30 which was a 318iS with the M42…. All it needed was an LSD for perfection! Let me know how you get on with it!

[@nes3382]

@@MakingforMotorsport sure thing! Can’t wait to get it up and running

[@nes3382]

@@MakingforMotorsport also quick question, what lsd did you get? I’m looking to install one on mine too

[@Cryocleantexas]

Make some 3D printed variable intake manifolds with linear actuators.

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Now that’s an interesting idea!

[@Cryocleantexas]

@@MakingforMotorsport yeah I’ve been thinking about it for a minute and it turns out F1, Ducati, ferrari, etc... us it to gain power everywhere. Some Aussie race team used a power drill as the mechanism on their rx7 look it up it’s on yt.

[@LukeEvans55]

43:44 - mini blooper detected :D - hey at least I'm watching 40 mins in!

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Damn!!! Well done on the spot and even more well done on lasting so long…! (Seriously… this took sooooo long to edit I “maybe” didn’t check it properly 😬)

[@stevesloan6775]

Ho! I alway thought fuels would be given off at a level that was 90% inner port surface areas. Its one tune away ha! .. : )

[@stevesloan6775]

Text responds should be rounded off, like good ideas. : )

[@MakingforMotorsport]

👍

[@man-fh7zb]

Hi David ! Are you a Mechanical Engineer ?

[@MakingforMotorsport]

I am, but when I did my degree they didn’t teach 3D modelling, so i am no expert… But sometimes, it takes an idiot to explain something very simply!

[@man-fh7zb]

@@MakingforMotorsport your extensive knowledge truly inspiring aspiring people out there who want to pursue engineering. We need more people like you, keep making videos David.

[@__--JY-Moe--__]

🤔🍖🍟🍰🍺🥨 good draft ! if U had a ''masso'', U could cut this right out. from steel, or aluminum! good luck !!

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Oh definitely… a plasma cutting table or something similar is on Christmas list, would make my life a lot faster….

[@jones43it]

why you dont calibrate a canvas....???

[@MakingforMotorsport]

I didn’t know it existed! Another comment has pointed it out aswell, I’ll give it a try! cheers! 👍

[@jones43it]

@@MakingforMotorsport when inport canavas, on d list make right klik and select calibrate..... if in d photo of canavas have a ruler put 1st point on 1cm an 2. Point on 2cm and vrite the dimension "1cm"...😉

[@tripplegracing8276]

Yes Please!!! Sent you an email!!

[@MakingforMotorsport]

Hi there Gert! No email yet?

[@tripplegracing8276]

@@MakingforMotorsport I sent a mail last week sometime to your outlook address listed in the about section of the channel

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