Oh interesting, I just have the regular flat rate boxes, I'll check those out. I think I might need a commercial account, but I'll go ask, there's a commercial hub about the same distance as my regular PO. Would be cool to save some money there, even if it's only a couple bucks per.

Well, there are Regional A and regional B boxes, up to 15 lb and 20 lb respectively. Order them for free at USPS.com There are no other Rgional boxes, doing online shippign with them is a little convoluted (you have to check "shipping by weight" instead of "Flat Rate") and PayPal doesn't allow them when preparing a label via PayPal. Still, they do save money and I have one going out to a Miataturbo buyer just now, about $3 cheaper than medium Flat Rate box.

Here's the pricing comparison and good explanation: What are Regional Rate Boxes? Note A1 and A2, B1 and B2 - they are different shape/isze boxes, so you might want to order a bundle of each from USPS. They "sell" them (for $0 delivered) in bundles of 10, Honestly, they are great for shipping small heavier stuff. Not great for lighter larger things.

Dude, those Corvette style cupholders are ballin'!!! Definitely going to buy one of those from you. How soon can you ship one out? I'll PM you my address.

interested in this style cupholder as well as ease of on and off. looking forward to purchasing as long as we can get it to hold a large ice from dunks

Similar to how they have gauge housings on the dash for 3 gauges, but have it curved to the contour of the gauge cluster cover. Maybe have it house 1 or 2 gauges (I'm planning 2 on the right and 1 on the left). Double sided tape could work or for those that want to mold it to blend with the dash, that works too. I'm lazy so I like tape 😁

Idk if it gets to 180 inside the car. That's pretty damn hot lol. But even at 30 bucks I think it's worth it, most of us have alot of money into our turbo builds. What's another drop in the bucket? :dunno:

In my opinion black is the hardest colour to print and petg being best material for larger prints

If you can print and ship me the cupholder for a good deal less than the $58 the real deal would cost from Moss, I'm in.

Nile, Thanks man, that's super helpful

Science, Next week assuming I can ever get this current print done, keep running into hardware issues.

Maine, the corvette version should be just about as easy to remove, but I can do either version, still need those measurements for that style though.

Drex, like the garage vary type?

Shamrock, well 100 degrees in direct sunlight can hit 172 according to the CDC, so you may be right on it being a little cooler than 180, but it can get toasty. We'll see how the test print goes, but I'm tentatively estimating $30 shipped for the corvette style which seems reasonable to me.

Kraken, I agree. I haven't printed much in different colors, my filament sensor is disconnected, so the only issue would be the chemical properties of the dyes and the heat characteristics of them, but I have heard that black and white are harder to print. Definitely agree on PETG, I prefer it over everything. I can get it for the same price as PLA and ABS and it prints easily with no issues and holds up nearly to where ABS could.

Hues, That I can definitely do. Tentatively looking at $30 shipped for the corvette style.

Yeah, like the garage vary type. Not sure if a 3 gauge housing would look better vs a 2 + 1. Would definitely be something I'm interested in!

Also interested in those cup holders if they were for NB too.

Cool, definitely let me know via PM when it's ready then.

Drex, Cool I'll see what I can come up with. Cupholders should be universal, tucks under the center console lip and into the carpet.

I'm also looking into a magnetic option that mounts in the same position for people like me who don't have carpet.

Science, Will do my man

I just made a thread for us 3d printer nerds instead. https://www.miataturbo.net/fabulous-...5/#post1492260

Cool! I'll hold on installing my gauges in the meantime 👍

Ok, full disclosure: printer is having issues, just had several back to back failures for a total of 49 hours of lost print time, so less than happy with that. I've still got a list, and I'll be going through the printer more in depth to troubleshoot problems. For the time being the printer is down. I'll update when I've got it back running with successful prints. I'm sorry for any inconvenience. I'll still be actively designing, so feel free to continue throwing ideas my way and I'll keep working on them.

Don't stress man. You are doing everyone a favor, there should be no bitching!

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...5001871cda.jpg
This is what my current cup holder looks like lol. But there's no rush for me. It's been warped for over a year. We just had a heat wave 95+ for like 4 days and it warped more making it useless. But I don't use it very often.

I'll have one of those cubbys in next week....apparently Monday according to the tracking number. What kind of measurements do you need? If it's easier I don't mind shipping it over to you as long as it gets back to me eventually.

You could prevent that in PLA by annealing it in a fixture after its printed. Every time that got really hot in the car it slightly relieved the internal stress from the differential cooling during printing. Just heat the oven up to like 150 and put some stiff metal around the cup holder and then put it in and turn the oven off and let it cool down. to room temperature.

As I futz with possible new intake, I was thinking.... it would be possible to print a filter heat shield for behind the passenger headlight of an NB right? I mean, there would be two flat pieces. basically, and i would join them with some hinge or strong tape or something like that. Similar to what's been described here: https://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=406171

Thoughts?

Thanks for the tip, I didnt print this myself, i bought it off some guy on facebook. Hopefully this new design and PETG wont have this issue.

Ok, printer seems to be back up and operating. Got some prints finished this weekend and shipped.

Zephyr, Pretty much everything to recreate it, I assume the outward face is the only curved portion and the rest is a rectangular prism, in which case I really only need the main dimensions and a detailed picture of the front and side preferably with a ruler in the picture for reference.

Nile, Can I do it? Yes. Would it be a good choice? No. Head to home depot, get you one of these: https://www.homedepot.com/p/M-D-Buil...7000/100351161 and a roll of this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Nashua-T...7792/100030120 and if you don't already have a pair, on of these to make life easier: https://www.homedepot.com/p/TEKTON-1...5104/205509387 and it you want to get fancy with it, get a roll or sheet of this: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/dei-010396 and cover every heat facing side with it. Make a cardboard template, trace the cardboard to the sheet aluminum, cut it out, seal seams with the HVAC foil tape (or rivets) and you can even mount it with the foil tape, or little L shaped brackets and rivets. Faster, easier, better.

Not with my fab skills :)

But that's what I'll probably end up doing unless I can buy a pre-fabbed shield.

I believe in your fab abilities, save your money for better go fast parts

Any updates on the cupholder mate?

Sent you some pictures via pm. Let me know how those work...more complicated than I thought. Not simple straight lines.

Science, First one should go on the printer today, just got caught up

Zephyr, Thanks man, I'll check them out and see what I can do. I kind of figured it would be a bit of a pain, things like that are deceptively simple until you try to recreate it.

Brainz, finished your cruise plugs, slide in them DM's

Just a heads up for future orders, I'm running low on black filament so I'm using up some of my other colors. I assume most of you will do some sort of finishing to the parts anyway, but if you plan to leave the parts as they come and would prefer a specific color, let me know otherwise you'll get whichever color happens to be on the reel. (currently orange)

I plan to leave mine as is, so black would be preferable lol.

Shamrock, can do, your cupholder is on next

Monk, I appreciate the pictures man!

Pretty sure I've been responding to everyone, but I feel like I'm forgetting stuff so I'm going to try to go through this whole thread again and get a list of all the parts y'all want and jam out some designs. I'm leaving for another trip from Aug 2nd to 13th, this time I'll be completely off the grid. Printer is still working overtime and I appreciate all of your patience. This corvette style cupholder is a 40+ hour print for instance, so I promise I'm not being lazy or ignoring y'all, just the constraints of the technology.

Been a while, so here's an update:

Did some volunteering in the Montana backcountry clearing trails
Came back and completely disassembled the printer, reassembled, updated firmware, migrated software, multiple testing iterations to get it printing right again.
Some thoughts:
I'm going to scale back my offerings. Everything will still be available as custom pieces, but honestly some of these parts aren't worth printing. I know everyone loves the cupholder idea, but its like a 45 hour print and I charge $20 plus shipping, so profit is on the order of $10 bucks, or about 22 cents an hour. I'll be focusing on parts that fit my printer better and that I can print higher quality. (a cupholder on my best quality takes over 140 hours.)

Cam seal and crank seal tools now available:
$5 and $10 respectively

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...498e22d75f.jpg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d33de013e2.jpg

Do you think the gauge pod idea would be something that is manageable? Just wondering if I should look into other solutions to mount my gauges or if I'll wait (no pressure, I promise!)

Yeah, should be, I'll try to get a template done today and start working on a prototype

If the cupholders are popular, consider getting them 3D-printed by a dedicated company in batches of 5 or 10 and in another durable material.

I did this with my DIY OLED console gauges, mostly to see what they'd look like in Nylon (vs the PLA I use at home).
The nylon versions were a little tighter so a I assume that they annealed the gauges afterwards which caused them to shrink a little.
It wasn't as expensive as I'd feared (in Australia's small market, doing this type of thing tends to be very expensive since there's little demand) but the finish was superb and required no additional work (the nylon has a very matt finish).
My PLA versions looked like dodgy prototypes compared to the finish of the nylon versions (I needed to spend a lot of time with wet&dry paper on the PLA gauge face to give it a smooth finish - the rest of the gauge I don't care about since it's not visible when installed in the instrument cluster).

This WILL make the pieces more expensive but requires no more effort on your part other than to send the order with your model attached and there's no wear&tear on your printer or time needed by you for each print.

Do some investigation on this, get some quotes and forum feedback to see if the extra cost is still acceptable to people.

You don't have a commercial-grade printer so it won't hold up to continuous printing - use it for prototype work.

Kenzo, sorry, should have specified, this is the rear crank tool, I don't have the front crank tool for either SNC or LNC.

I have both, I could try to throw together a model of them and send it over if you wanted. It'd be in my off time so I don't know how soon it'd be, but it probably wouldn't take long.

Oh awesome, You're local so I could come pick them up if you're free. I could probably pull the measurements for the designs in a couple minutes actually.

Do you have access to an NB1 fog light bezel?

Let's make some brake ducts for the gv style lip too

I'd be interested in both of these things.

I'm mainly looking for an interference fit adapter that can Form pretty well to the stock NB1 bezel but adapt it to a 2.5" brake duct hose

I don't have one off the car to 3D scan and or dump into solid works

Someone already makes one on etsy. See also- my Slow Torture build thread.

It says they are unavailable on etsy. I should have got them when I had the chance. I instantly looked it up after I saw your post when you first got them.

I messaged the seller and he renewed the listing. It only says he has 1 in stock but he actually 3D prints them to order in whatever color you select. Mine are the black ABS.

If anybody needs some: https://www.etsy.com/shop/StephensEngineering

I would message him if you ever see it listed as out of stock.

EDIT: Oh, snap! He's got them for 3in ducting now!

I'm not changing all of my hardware out at this point right now but that's good to know.

Awesome! Your rock for messaging him. The only reason i held off before was because he didnt have 3 inch. Ordering a set now.

on the newer NB 1.8 the only way to change the timing is to replace the crankshaft pulley timing plate. How about making an adjustable mount for the timing plate sensor?

It isn't the only way to change the timing. Many people use a megasquirt.

Ok, the only way to change timing and stay legal for OBDii inspection....

Hey I was wondering if the gas/ trunk cover was still available and if you could pm me about details to purchase one.

How much?
 

How much for the NB trunk and gas cover?? Also will it fit the 2000 model?

Is this thread dead? I'd like some ducts for NB2 bumper fog light holes to connect 2.5" brand ducks and I like that panel above for the trunk and gas for release.

OP hasn't been active in 2ish years, so I'd say so

I have some NB2 ducts that I designed and can print in PETG.


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...33e83b956a.jpg

NB MS Bracket
 

What would be the cost to print the MS bracket for the NB that is already in the public domain? I downloaded the file a while back and I could send to you by email, or it can be downloaded from here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3849892.

I'd buy a set....

Id buy a set too.

Get me some dimensions and Id be down to prototype something