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I designed a 3d printed license plate holder that uses stock mounting bolts and holes. It has a locking latch that utilizes a 3d printed spring to hold a license plate bracket in place. This is good when you want to quickly put in a license plate if say the police show up to a car show and start handing out tickets. The design is about as slim as you can make it as a 3d printed ABS part and is less tall than the OEM aluminum scrape pucks under the car.
If you want to print one of these for yourself some notes:
- 4x M5 screws are required
- 4x M5 hex nuts are required
- Glue the spring to the rear plate while keeping the spring free to do it's thing.
- Use ABS or stronger filament.
- Can't guarantee yours will be strong, but use a 100% infill and it should be pretty durable.
If you want to print one of these for yourself some notes:
- 4x M5 screws are required
- 4x M5 hex nuts are required
- Glue the spring to the rear plate while keeping the spring free to do it's thing.
- Use ABS or stronger filament.
- Can't guarantee yours will be strong, but use a 100% infill and it should be pretty durable.
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Lotusdoesit
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Great taste in bikes. SeaSucker?
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Yup, this is a Seasucker Komodo -- also have a Seasucker Talon for MTB, not sure if I want to transport a MTB with this car though.
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Nah wheel goes in a wheel bag in the front seat, but been thinking of just having the wheel on a separate suction cup mount on the glass. Emira isn't only car but if I need to drive to a ride, I usually want to enjoy a nice drive at the same time.
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Don’t worry our man GRP has you covered soon.
Been using them a lot lately. What a great bunch.
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Last weekend I installed a set of EBC Redstuff pads from GRP.
Some notes:
- I was motivated to replace the stock pads by a set of pads with far less dust for street driving.
- I was anticipating less initial bite than the stock pads, however that has not been the case.
- Pads are slightly thicker than OEM and required removing the backing pad from the pads.
- Some slight initial bedding noise from the pads, hoping this goes away longer term.
- Stock pads have switched over from a Ferodo DS2500 to a Brembo copper free pad of the US market, P/N CP7040X61BX261ANT013
- Rear pad retaining pins have extremely limited area to strike the pins back into place, I had to use a small 3d printed titanium hammer.
Some notes:
- I was motivated to replace the stock pads by a set of pads with far less dust for street driving.
- I was anticipating less initial bite than the stock pads, however that has not been the case.
- Pads are slightly thicker than OEM and required removing the backing pad from the pads.
- Some slight initial bedding noise from the pads, hoping this goes away longer term.
- Stock pads have switched over from a Ferodo DS2500 to a Brembo copper free pad of the US market, P/N CP7040X61BX261ANT013
- Rear pad retaining pins have extremely limited area to strike the pins back into place, I had to use a small 3d printed titanium hammer.
Really interested to hear if you find these quiet enough... I'd love a lower dust alternative, but not keen on squealing and rumbling to a stop at every traffic light
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Really interested to hear if you find these quiet enough... I'd love a lower dust alternative, but not keen on squealing and rumbling to a stop at every traffic light
The Redstuff pads have a very thin top layer that is red and meant to be abrasive to the rotor to clean it up for street bedding in. I am guessing that is why it's making the sound -- it could also be that removing the backing plates are causing more friction in which case some anti squeal paste might make sense. Will report back in a couple weeks on these, but so far there is little to no dust.
SteveFromNY
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Nice bike!
Although it's inconvenient, isn't it still just a fix-it ticket in California (i.e., bring it in and show that you have a plate installed, fine waived, take it off again)? Also would you mind showing a pic of the plate on the back of your car? I'm considering the black legacy plate as well and would like to see how it looks against the black diffuser.
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It is -- and personally I don't run a front plate, but this was a good exercise in learning CAD as I'm new to it and sort of a fun project.
Hi thanks for the awesome design, I printed the files in ABS with 100% infill. Printed great on my P1S
Now, Do you think that this design will be durable as a permanent front plate holder. I am thinking to keep it for the long term but afraid I will lose the plate lol
Now, Do you think that this design will be durable as a permanent front plate holder. I am thinking to keep it for the long term but afraid I will lose the plate lol
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Can’t make any promises there, I think maybe making some printer upgrades like a hardened extruder gear and nozzle and printing it out of PA6-CF or other similar nylon engineering filament with might make it more durable. One thing I was thinking about was the layer adhesion on the Z axis for the plate holder itself — extreme bending forces might cause it to delaminate — but you’d need to be going very very fast for that to happen. PA6-CF has very good layer adhesion.
RyanGphoto
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Hey Kitkat. Any update on the noise from the new brake pads? Would love to hear your feedback after it being a few weeks now.
Ryan G
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