📓 Journals kitkat's Emira

[kitkat]

Hi all,

I received my car a while back and I'll journal the things I do with this car here.

 

[kitkat]

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.

 

[Lotusdoesit]

Great taste in bikes. SeaSucker?

 

[silent cilantro]

following!

 

[kitkat]

Great taste in bikes. SeaSucker?

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.

 

[Foxy87]

Wheel behind the seat? How do you prevent it from rolling/bangig around?

Is the Emira your only car?

 

[kitkat]

Wheel behind the seat? How do you prevent it from rolling/bangig around?

Is the Emira your only car?

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.

 

[David s]

Can you design a cheap cold air intake......

 

[kitkat]

Can you design a cheap cold air intake......

Don’t worry our man GRP has you covered soon.

 

[David s]

Don’t worry our man GRP has you covered soon.

Been using them a lot lately. What a great bunch.

 

[kitkat]

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.

 

[ADC]

Last weekend I installed a set of EBC Redstuff pads from GRP.

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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.


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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

 

[kitkat]

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]

Hi all,

I received my car a while back and I'll journal the things I do with this car here.

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Nice bike!

 

[Dragoon]

I love the license plate holder! It looks very well thought out and executed well.

 

[GrahamClark_60-68]

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.

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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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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.

 

[kitkat]

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.

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.

 

[HdoBadr]

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

 

[kitkat]

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

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.

https://cdn1.bambulab.com/filament/filament-guide/97o284g2bit0617/filament-guide-en.pdf

 

[RyanGphoto]

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