Smaller LS3 V8 Engine - Working Model

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As with most of you I love all of Eric's models. Unfortunately I do not have a machine large enough to print any of them as they are designed to be printed. I have scaled all the parts down to 50% of the originals size and had to modify many of them to make them print better at this scale. I also replaced the hardware with more commonly available items since at this scale the actual hardware (1.5mm diameter bolts) would be hard to get and costly.

At 50% size it is only 1/8 the volume so it prints in about 20-40 hours unlike the 200 hours for the original. But this time savings is at the cost of time to assemble going up. It has taken me about 40 hours to assemble, redesign, make hardware and reassemble the engine not including the actual print time. It should be possible to assemble in a couple of nights.

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