Porsche Headlight Retrofit [from CAD, prototyping to finish)

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by thatguychad

The tech nerd in me loves these details, thanks for giving us insight! How long does it take to render the 1920 px images on your blade vs the single workstation at 12-18 hours?

Iray VCA from nvidia. Hmmmm ....think its real/real-time bud lolll. Plugs right inside Catia (3Dmax, Rhino, also I think, whataever you guys use there). Think the old gigabit fibre network I have here at home is not even enought to push data to the gpus. Locks up occasionally in ray tracing mode but never crashes. Look it up (its everywhere, youtube, etc). Cheap cheap... 8GPUs (base), 20k cores, think we paid US$62,000 after tax and training (caught)

Was thinking about buying 10 at that price Of course One for you and your GF as a token of appreciation for your kind support!

tc

[Nine8Six]

Thought I’d upload something new.

Woke up early and rigged up a small vid comp to show how it’s done on the CAM side of things. This is the CNC lathe that I’ll be using for the operation #1 for the center caps. It’s actually only the boring operation (25% of the entire machining process).

This is NO toy. “True NC simulation” like these are an essential sign-off process before uploading live NC Code to the actual physical machine controller. That 2 tons lathe (that I’ll eventually video) is worth $33k (RMB200,000) and was custom ordered, or adapted/built for the parts that I normally need it most for, if you prefer. Not as expansive as my mate’s quarter-million$ slant bed lathe but regardless of the price the very last thing you want to do to any machine tool is to “crash it”. A crash while a lathe spins @5,000 RPM is actually not beautiful at all in any cases lollll. This is where a true nc simulation comes as mandatory and a priority. No sim/collision report = no prod. Simple as that.

The sim machine in the video is in fact an exact reproduction of the actual physical machine (tolerance and scale-wise). I’m only showing the automated parts and chuck for the demo but removed the surrounding cabinet and headstock so you guys can actually see a 360degree of the operations (the moving ones anyway). So you are getting the exact same view as I do when I program the CAM work on my parts.

Gives you an idea…. and different from ‘static’ renderings I’ll upload more along with some of the real machines brutally cutting metal from time to time. Hope you’ll enjoy those as much as I do here

[Best Viewed Full HD 1080p)

[jaykay]

Wicked stuff.....things have come a long way from laying down tool paths on a $50K CATIA work station

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by jaykay

Wicked stuff.....things have come a long way from laying down tool paths on a $50K CATIA work station

J - above vid is a full blown license of "Siemens NX10" with MR3 + CAM + Simulation package. Technically the same solution your Boxster car and all other Porsche cars were engineered onto. This NX license, a NC lathe and a (wicked) High Speed 4axis Vertical Machining Center all with 'nano precision' controllers were part of the main investment for my shop (back in July 2015). I'm not only designing or manufacturing $300 projectors no worries mate lollll

NX is dead raw parasolid. The grand daddy of all other mechanical engineer software that you hear about. Sure makes Solidworks and other look like comic books. Certainly not cheap but worth it on the 'long' run (2 years and its paid for as per business plan)

German Rottweilers (2), German watches, German cars, and German automation, systems, controllers & software. The only thing I don't do German is their food loll

ps: Catia's workstation is not mine, owned by my current employer (day job). And its not $50k... much much less than that mate The Catia licenses are attributed to the girls where we work loll (we like to refer to it as such!)

[rfuerst911sc]

Hey Fred I think I remember you saying at one point that you had some silicone ( ? ) headlight gaskets made ? The guy I was working with apparently gave up and won't return my emails for the past 6 months . I am now finally ready to install the headlights I bought over a year ago but with my luck the old OEM gaskets will be toast.

[CHRISP357]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

Hey Fred I think I remember you saying at one point that you had some silicone ( ? ) headlight gaskets made ? The guy I was working with apparently gave up and won't return my emails for the past 6 months . I am now finally ready to install the headlights I bought over a year ago but with my luck the old OEM gaskets will be toast.

I'd certainly buy a few sets too.

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

Hey Fred I think I remember you saying at one point that you had some silicone ( ? ) headlight gaskets made ? The guy I was working with apparently gave up and won't return my emails for the past 6 months . I am now finally ready to install the headlights I bought over a year ago but with my luck the old OEM gaskets will be toast.

You can’t be serious I was sure you’ve passed these lights over to someone else at the end. What a surprise

If I were you I’d first dbl-check with your friend and engine builder Jake Raby. You my friend have simply no single chance he will allow you to install “any sort” of aftermarket kit on the The Beast my man, sorry to say. I don’t think you are even allowed to use Mobil’s or Castrol’s 5W40 products also, ever. Even when it goes on sale at $2.99/gal at Walmart…. big No No for you and I can understand why. (Can’t wait to see a vid of this car btw, read it rev & sounds like a Ferrari).

If you want to blow up “The Beast”, fry its ECU, melt all of its wiring, burn the clutch, or possibly worst…. get your car impounded by your local dept of transport, go ahead and install those superb bi-xenon headlights. You have been warned

RE rubber seals; those are okay to install on The Beast however. I think he would approve that. I’ll check with Mr Yong here to see if he would be happy to crack on with the manufacturing. Wow its been a year already. Last time I’ve been asked to pre-pay for 500x pairs (his newly established min order loll) but given he quoted them $1 each that could worth looking into again. I’ll update if there is anything positive coming out of this.

[CHRISP357]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

You can’t be serious I was sure you’ve passed these lights over to someone else at the end. What a surprise

If I were you I’d first dbl-check with your friend and engine builder Jake Raby. You my friend have simply no single chance he will allow you to install “any sort” of aftermarket kit on the The Beast my man, sorry to say. I don’t think you are even allowed to use Mobil’s or Castrol’s 5W40 products also, ever. Even when it goes on sale at $2.99/gal at Walmart…. big No No for you and I can understand why. (Can’t wait to see a vid of this car btw, read it rev & sounds like a Ferrari).

If you want to blow up “The Beast”, fry its ECU, melt all of its wiring, burn the clutch, or possibly worst…. get your car impounded by your local dept of transport, go ahead and install those superb bi-xenon headlights. You have been warned

RE rubber seals; those are okay to install on The Beast however. I think he would approve that. I’ll check with Mr Yong here to see if he would be happy to crack on with the manufacturing. Wow its been a year already. Last time I’ve been asked to pre-pay for 500x pairs (his newly established min order loll) but given he quoted them $1 each that could worth looking into again. I’ll update if there is anything positive coming out of this.

I will be happy to forward as much of that $500 as we need to get these seals done.

[rfuerst911sc]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

You can’t be serious I was sure you’ve passed these lights over to someone else at the end. What a surprise

If I were you I’d first dbl-check with your friend and engine builder Jake Raby. You my friend have simply no single chance he will allow you to install “any sort” of aftermarket kit on the The Beast my man, sorry to say. I don’t think you are even allowed to use Mobil’s or Castrol’s 5W40 products also, ever. Even when it goes on sale at $2.99/gal at Walmart…. big No No for you and I can understand why. (Can’t wait to see a vid of this car btw, read it rev & sounds like a Ferrari).

If you want to blow up “The Beast”, fry its ECU, melt all of its wiring, burn the clutch, or possibly worst…. get your car impounded by your local dept of transport, go ahead and install those superb bi-xenon headlights. You have been warned

RE rubber seals; those are okay to install on The Beast however. I think he would approve that. I’ll check with Mr Yong here to see if he would be happy to crack on with the manufacturing. Wow its been a year already. Last time I’ve been asked to pre-pay for 500x pairs (his newly established min order loll) but given he quoted them $1 each that could worth looking into again. I’ll update if there is anything positive coming out of this.

Ummmmm........all I was asking about was two headlight gaskets what's with the commentary ????? And why would I have passed on your headlights they are well made and thought out. Oh well I guess I don't get the joke or intent. Thanks for your time.