DIY Acrylic TBS FTW!

[portabuddy]

this was a spert of the moment DIY... done just for fun. this copy was a one off but the next one will be replicatable with a jigg and what not

this one was done 100% by KMM mike therwise known as my brother...



we/he started with a P2R throtle body spacer. and traced it onto a piece of 3/8 acrlic two make up the gesket,

this pic is of two cut out already


then we had a piexe is 1/4" smoked acrylic too so we tossed that in for looks.



here is is cut out,


then glued/lamiated




then the top layer... this is really rough and needed a few hours of sanding...



and it looked like this...



then more sanding...



SAND SAND SAND SAND!!!


and it looked like this










then attentions needed to be turned to the inside..

for this i recommended useing a smaller hole saw with sand paper glued to it wrapped around...



it worked well... and so did the automatic throtle controle...
AKA A ZIP TIE






this was repeted with a finer sand paper then with a scuff pad...





TA-DAAAA!!!









then all polished up!!!





















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and the real reason for this mod!






finaly got to installing it. Looking good!!!

[07mugencivic]

nice stuff.....you have a lot of time on your hands....what are you going to do with the other spacer ...

[portabuddy]

the p2r was borrowed from another member, this one might go into my car or be thrown on ebay depending how the V2 and v3 come out... this only took 3hours total...

[portabuddy]

you know the other added plus of this is a 100% thermal break...

[meeks]

dude. thats frikkin' amazing props to this project and all the other ones you did!!

[leeban]

This is the craziest **** .. now I want to see if the heat transfer is less due to the materials used. I would assume it will be.

AMAZING .. !! LOVE IT !!

[illusionstwice]

Damn Bart.. you are so frican creative... and good with your hands. ( I mean that in a TOTAL heterosexual way)

[KMM]

*bows*
thank you thank you

I needed something to do while at work so I grabbed some left over sheets of acrylic cutoffs and started to trace out the holes, since at work I have a mini matal work shop I used the drill press to bore out the holes, I then toke it home and rough cut the outsides with a dremal drill then as you can see I sanded and polished till I was happy with it

[illusionstwice]

my comment goes for both of you btw.. lol

[KMM]

Originally Posted by illusionstwice

Damn Bart.. you are so frican creative... and good with your hands. ( I mean that in a TOTAL heterosexual way)

oh ya sure you did
(this one was done by one, the next one will be done by bart using a router)

[mix]

hey make me one or ill buy the old one, where do i sign up.

[portabuddy]

all of out projects are done together...


In V2 i will go thicker and add a few ridges into the inside... but leaning from our mistakes... the layers will be laminated first then it will get cut out. first making a master out of ??(MDF or metal plate)?? then useing a table set router, routering it out...



the goal is making a few of them with differant profiles and thicknesses and dynoing them...

[portabuddy]

Originally Posted by mix

hey make me one or ill buy the old one, where do i sign up.

well we are not sponsors on the site so we cant advertise... for now this is only for me(testing and curosity)... and any spairs will be put up on ebay... but pm's wouldnt hurt...

[thatsnotstock]

hey send the xtra my way, i can have a 'trace' copy made on a 5 axis CNC within an hour

[KMM]

yap yap this one was more made just for fun and playing around to see if it's doable and how long would it take doing it the hard/long way but it turned out alright.....

too bad that you cant see air other wise you will be able to see the air rushing past this part as you rev the engine

[portabuddy]

Originally Posted by thatsnotstock

hey send the xtra my way, i can have a 'trace' copy made on a 5 axis CNC within an hour

que-pa?


wat ever do you mean?

[KMM]

Originally Posted by thatsnotstock

hey send the xtra my way, i can have a 'trace' copy made on a 5 axis CNC within an hour

hmm you has one me can use hmmmm, I'm coming over with a disk as we have digitized it already

[thatsnotstock]

haha, i have access to pretty much 5 different CNC's and aluminum/stainless steel/brass block.

I'll have 'SI' cut into the side too.

[KMM]

^ ah sweet cause I was doing to make one (CNC) myself out of spare parts

[portabuddy]

^^^ lol you do know that i hate you!!!


so where is this shop, close to me?