Hey guys, so I've been working the past week on making a rear speaker grill for the FD since... well... used ones aren't quite easy to come by. I have a previously Bose-equipped car that the previous owner removed and replaced with rear speakers and left the pocket covers, soooo I scavenged for rear speaker grills to replace the old pocket-style covers. And low and behold, there was nothing... Except for a couple of super expensive OEM options, and an already 3d printed version that another person has made, that I was NOT a huge fan of. So I went out and tried making a 3d model for myself and making it a bit more OEM-looking.

Everything was printed out of ABS (which admittedly was tough). I tried to keep a tight "mesh" so that nothing could be seen behind just to make it look a bit cleaner in the car



And I also kept the same style of mounting points. I tried 3d printing the mounting points straight on, but I found it to be better to break those off to leave an imprint of where the mounts need to go and then print mounts separately and use ABS glue to chemically adhere the mounting points on. Put the stock clips on the top 2 posts and add some foam-backed tape to stop any rubbing and to make the fit nice and snug.



All that's left to do is line up the bottom tabs, push them down, and then push them in and stand back and admire



They follow the shape of the holes perfectly and am very happy with them and thought I would share it with all of you guys.

 

looks good. do you have the file for download anywhere?

 

Yesssss, sorry was trying to get everything uploaded after I posted that lol
https://makerworld.com/en/models/730556

 

Wow. Nice work.

 

Next up! The entire rear interior quarter panel (please!).

 

What color do you want? jk lol. Would be interesting to see how well of a 3d scan I could get on something like that though

I do want to try and see if I can get a good scan of the driver-side and passenger-side door plastics and possibly print those?

 

Do the driver's plastics in two section (somehow like they often break) that interlock when mounted. Passenger plastics are much more complicated, I imagine.

 

There is a "U" shaped piece of plastic that encloses around the B pillar end of the hatch struct, that is attached to the inner rear quarter panel. (it looks like it is heat welded on), That piece gets very brittle and i think most people's would be broken by now. The LHD and RHD versions that piece are different.

That may be a welcome piece that many people don't know they need (because long gone).

As it comes with the panel it does not have it's own part number.

 

The "U" shaped pieces can be seen in this pic of the rear q-panels for the back seat set up. The :"u" is bigger to accommodate the rear seat belt pass through. You can see that for both pieces the "U" is already broken. They will further shatter the second you touch them,

When these pieces are missing though the gap around the strut base is quite obvious.

 

Th emissing piece is more evident here because the entire strut is missing.


Here the owner has tried to deal with a prior cut-out for a roll bar with a simple edging trim.

 

I just need a replacement for the "tongue" section. I suspect a number of people would need as well.

 

What scanner are you using Watch_Me?

Redbul, I think there's a lot of parts out there that people would love to see available. I'm going to start a specific 3d printing/ scanning thread as to not clutter up this one. We have one in the FC group, and there's so many good parts in there, FD guys could benefit from one as well.

 

WOW, I see what you're talking about with those little U-shaped pieces Redbul, I don't see that being too big of a hassle to make, ill give that a go and see what I can do. As for the bottom of those rear quarters, I'll see what I can do, I'll get a model that's much higher up than you need so that you can cut it to the size that you need and then potentially plastic weld it on. You gotta tell me how they came to be so mangled though lol, that's insane hahaha.

And for need-a-t2, I use a Shining 3D product, they call the "Einstar" It's cheap (for a 3D scanner that is) and it gets the job more than done for now. I would love a 3d printing/ scanning page for 3rd gen. Being able to create a whole STL library full of parts for FD's would be AMAZING to have

 

I made one:
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generati...reaed-1168076/

Yeah, I think the einstar is the one superfastmatt on youtube uses. He seems to really like it. I have the Revo pop scanner. It's ok, but not super great.

 

Awesome dude, I love that, can't wait to build that library up.

The Revo pop is more oriented towards smaller objects which is GREAT to have in your arsenal, but if you want/need bigger scans, the Einstar is the way to go. Especially price-wise, yeah in general the Einstar is expensive, but for being a 3d scanner that can do what it does, it's a steal. Shining 3D also makes super high-end scanners, so their software for the cheaper Einstar is just a hand-me-down from those scanners, and it's great.

 

Very good work, thanks for the link