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Old Mar 30, 2024 | 09:11 AM
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Looking for an a/o engineering front license plate forced air for an 88 Corvette
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Quick Google search found this, is it what you are talking about?
https://www.c6performance.net/catalo...-p-513655.html
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That's for 91 to 96 I need one for an 88 but thank you I appreciate anybody that can help me find one.
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This is where the project is at currently and was considering fabbing one.
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I'm in the same boat. I don't care about ram air. I just wanted lower air temp. This pic was from earlier this winter. I have the bumper back on now. I'm just going to make a cover. If I could find a CAD file for one I would 3D print one.
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Do some serious measurement design it up print one out and see how it fits then tweak it from there if it works I'll take one too!!! I am a designer in the automotive industry by trade.
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Or if you have the ability and the original plate scan it then you have something to print
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Do some serious measurement design it up print one out and see how it fits then tweak it from there if it works I'll take one too!!! I am a designer in the automotive industry by trade.
Well the issue there is I'm not a designer. I'm a maintenance guy who understands gcode, but as far as making a design from scratch that's outside of my wheel house. The most complex thing I ever designed myself was a drill jig for direct port nitrous nozzles in a F.A.S.T. intake manifold. And that was just a tube with a taper on one end.

But I might give it a shot. I have a factory cover to take measurements from.
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Use the original border and then set some sections up to build the tunnel inboard I'm normally using NX for my cad design but have spent 20 years as well on Catia. Please let me know if I can help!!!
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Use the original border and then set some sections up to build the tunnel inboard I'm normally using NX for my cad design but have spent 20 years as well on Catia. Please let me know if I can help!!!
I'll tell you what. If you design a ram air style license plate cover with CAD and send me the .stl file I'll print you one. I'll cover shipping.

I would make it out of PETG+ so it would handle some heat. I could do CoPa nylon but it shrinks so bad when I print with the stuff. It's difficult to keep dimensions. Haven't tried carbon fiber nylon but that's also an option.

Either way if you do this it would need sanded and painted.
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Sounds very tempting but I don't own the software that I use and I don't want to get in trouble. But once you scan the border you can use base planes to set up the tunnel and then add your radiuses from there.
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Sounds very tempting but I don't own the software that I use and I don't want to get in trouble. But once you scan the border you can use base planes to set up the tunnel and then add your radiuses from there.
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