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3D printing has, however, come a long way. Cores for castings can now be “grown”, but I’d still just grow the mold, and cast the actual part. Just about any car with any semblance of parts availability wouldn’t make any sense to try to 3D print to any significant degree. It would be cheaper and easier to just track down the parts. 3D printers are slow, and the costs associated with making even a small part are incredibly high. 99% of the parts of a car, even if those parts aren’t available, make more sense to manufacture using more conventional means. It will be cheaper (and better) to cut a new carburetor housing out of billet than to grow one on a 3D printer, and any sort of sheet metal components will be better, and cheaper if fabricated from actual sheet metal. If you have 3D CAD files to make a car, you’d have a better car cheaper and faster, if you loaded those files into a 5-axis VMC rather than a 3D printer.
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