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Originally Posted by decisive1
I just stumbled across this and am now following this very cool build. Those Braids will look nice on the car.
I really like the fact that you have developed your own intake and intake adapters, and then had them printed in aluminum. Beautiful work! Based on my limited experience I know that it was no small feat to achieve. I am curious what the approximate cost was to have a set of the intake runners and intake adapters printed in aluminum though.
Also, is that finish on the runners Cerakote?
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Thanks! Yeah it was definitely a big design project, tons of iterations before I got something that I was happy with (and honestly there are still changes I'd make). But it was very fun and I learned a ton in the process.
So the individual adapters were 3d printed aluminum, which I got in early 2024, and cost around $400 for all six.. no idea what they would be now with tariffs and everything. The runners/manifolds were just used 964 units, not too expensive at the time. The plenum and resonator delete tube (whatever you'd call it) were printed in PAHT-CF on my printer.. so probably about $40 in filament. All in I'd guess about $6-700 for all the intake "hard" parts.
Everything is powder coated, except the printed aluminum adapters- those are just raw/bead-blasted