Well, so far so good. I had to make some tweaks and need to make a few more. This is the AMC 345 V8 engine for the Scout II. All pieces designed in Blender 4.0 and printed by me using the Elegoo Saturn 3 Ultra, Siraya Tech ABS like resin gray at 25mu. It took an entire day to calibrate the machine to the smaller layer height, but I got more detail. The separate parts for what you see here are:
Engine block
Oil pan
Left and right cylinder heads
Left and right valve cover
Timing chain cover
Water pump and top pulley (all 1 piece)
Intake manifold
Top radiator coolant exchange
Not painted is the harmonic balancer. Notice the timing marks on the timing chain cover!
The water pipes are 18ga copper wire and .025" solder wire.
The paint is 3 parts Tamiya X7 Red and 2 parts X6 Orange to make a Chevy red.
There was a lot of trimming and truing via scraping with an Xacto and filing with a mini file and grinding with a dremel so I need to tweak the exposure settings a bit more; I think it was over exposed which made the alignment splines too big. I will try to resize the male parts a little smaller. It may just be the tiny size and not much I can do about it. I try to have the supports small enough that the piece isn't mangled when they are removed but large enough that the print doesn't fail. It is tricky!
The pieces were cured with the supports still attached and carefully removed after hardening. That seemed to work better.
Transmission and transfer case shown just because.
