u/Rilot
r/TeslaUK r/ipad r/Trackballs r/functionalprint r/Mustang r/SlimQ r/ImAnIdiot r/engrish r/Revopoint r/BorderCollie r/dji r/dickfacedcats r/djiavata360 r/3dprintedcarparts r/realcivilengineer r/CarTalkUK r/GeForceNOW r/upbadging r/NameThisThing r/3DScanning
▲ 6 r/TeslaUK
I got one
My first EV. It's a late 2023 Model Y Long Range AWD in recession white. Tesla CPO with 35k miles. This will be replacing our 2019 Mazda CX5 2.0 Sport GT in family duties. I have a 2021 Ford Mustang 5.0 GT Convertible as our fun car.
Now I just need to wait for a collection date which should only be a few days depending on how busy the workshop is.
Looking forward to it.
u/Rilot — 12 days ago
Designed a gas pedal rises and mount for the Steeda pedal cover
I've always felt the stock gas pedal was too low relative to the brake pedal for easy heel and toe. I know solutions for this exist but they are only for LHD cars. On RHD cars the pedal assembly is a single unit with the brake so they don't work.
I bought the Steeda pedal cover but didn't fancy drilling my stock pedal to mount it. Came up with this instead. It mounts the same was as the stock pedal cover and uses the same hardware.
I covered the Steeda cover with skateboard grip tape.
https://makerworld.com/en/models/3244664-mustang-s550-steeda-gas-pedal-mount-and-riser
Note: if you print this, please make sure to only use ASA, ABS, or Nylon - something that can withstand abuse and the temperatures inside hot cars. DO NOT PRINT IN PLA or you are going to have a bad time.
u/Rilot — 1 month ago
Better 3D scanning with accessories
Made this vid to go through some of the basic accessories I use when scanning. This is real novice stuff but something that isn't talked about much.
u/Rilot — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/3DScanning
Reverse engineering a Mustang trim piece - Using MetroY Ultra 3D scanner
youtube.comu/Rilot — 2 months ago
I reverse engineered the PP dash for RHD
Ford never made it in RHD so I needed to right this wrong. Used a MetroY Ultra scanner to scan my trim piece and the gauges, then reverse engineered them in Fusion and QuickSurface. 3D printed in ABS and then wrapped in alcantara.
u/Rilot — 2 months ago
▲ 13 r/3dprintedcarparts
Made a RHD dash to fit PP aux gauges in my Mustang
In the US, the Performance Pack Mustangs have two auxiliary gauges above the nav screen. One for oil pressure and one for vacuum. UK and EU cars don't get these, even though all of our cars are Performance Pack spec. To fit them to a LHD car is easy - just buy and import a dash bezel from a US PP car, cut the dash up a bit, fit gauges, and off you go. In the UK this is impossible because Ford never made the bezel in RHD form.
I needed to right this wrong but how? Well, I have access to 3D scanners as well as 3D printers. I'm also OK at CAD. Let's start.
First up, let's scan the PP gauges:
I used a Revopoint MetroY Ultra for this as it's the most accurate scanner I have.
In to Fusion and I built up a model of the gauges using the scan as a reference.
Now on to the bezel:
In to Quicksurface to build the complex shapes, then in to Fusion to make a modification to allow the fitment of the gauges. This needed the outer vents to be moved apart 10mm and mounting lugs etc to be made up to accept the gauges.
Cool. My 3D printer can't print something over 1M wide so I needed to split it up in to smaller pieces. Printed in ABS so it doesn't warp in the heat.
A quick test fit:
Sticking it all together:
Sanding and filing it smooth:
I then wrapped it in alcantara:
Quick test fit:
Then I took a saw to the dash to make space for the new gauges. Also fitted the wiring by taping in to the APIM behind the NAV screen.
Fitted and working:
I also wrapped the rest of the silver trim in alcantara to match:
MyColour works and the vacuum gauge works. The oil pressure does not because Ford decided to fit just an oil pressure switch to UK cars rather than the transducer that is fitted to US cars. I will rectify this shortly.
u/Rilot — 2 months ago
▲ 7 r/SlimQ
Any news on the 500W PSU?
I'm using the 330W and it's not powerful enough to run my Lenovo Legion Gen 10 in full performance mode.
u/Rilot — 2 months ago
I ******* love this car
Of the 22 cars I've owned over the last 30 years, none of them has made me feel quite as good as when I'm driving this on a summer day with the roof down. With the suspension mods it's now even better and handles like it should. Every drive is an event. Yes, it's no supercar but it feels so special in its own way.
I know a Mustang is nothing special for my US brothers, but for me in the UK it's like nothing else we can buy.
u/Rilot — 3 months ago
Chasing a rattle in my new car for a year. Found it yesterday.
A year ago I bought a new car and it had an annoying rattle from the steering wheel whenever there was a rough road surface. Very annoying. It went back to the dealer a couple of times but they could never find it. I asked my wife about it but she said she’d never heard anything.
Last week I drove it and the rattle was gone. I couldn’t work it out but figured. Cool. It’s gone.
Yesterday it was back and I finally realised what was causing it.
You see, around the time I bought the car I also bought a new watch. Last week I wasn’t wearing it because it was in for a repair.
Yes, it was the metal strap on my new watch that has been rattling all this time.
I’m an idiot.
u/Rilot — 3 months ago
▲ 8 r/Mustang
That's better
Fitted Eibach Pro-Kit springs and bumpstops. Also fitted the Steeda IRS lockout kit. I'm very happy with how it sits now. Oddly, it seems to be less fidgety over bumps and has less scuttle shake. I expect a fair amount of that is because of the IRS lockout rather than the springs though.
u/Rilot — 4 months ago
▲ 345 r/GeForceNOW
Gotta love GFN
Waiting for my son so thought I’d play a little FO4. Works amazingly well on 4G.
u/Rilot — 4 months ago
▲ 20 r/ipad
iPad battery life - devices failing after 2 years.
I'm an IT manager for a college, and 2 years ago the leadership team made the decision to go iPad for 1:1 devices for students. We bought 500 iPad Gen10s but now, after nearly 2 years of use, many of them have batteries that no longer hold charge. We started tracking these failures earlier this year and have had over 70 devices now where the battery gets to 75% ish and then the device turns off. There are many more that we don't know about due to students not reporting.
I've got students walking around with USB battery banks and cables because their iPads won't last more than an hour without being plugged in.
We have yet to observe this behaviour with the 150 Gen11 iPads we have, but they are all less than a year old at this point.
We use the iPads heavily as our whole school has embraced digital teaching and learning. The iPad is now an integral part of a child's kit bag and every child takes notes digitally on Goodnotes using an Apple Pencil.
Is this a normal lifespan for these iPads? If so, we're going to have to come up with another solution because we cannot afford to replace large chunks of our estate every 2 years.
u/Rilot — 4 months ago
Scanned my son with Pop4 3DGS mode
He moved during the scan so there's a few artifacts. Pretty impressive nonetheless.
u/Rilot — 5 months ago
▲ 3 r/3DScanning
Pop 4 is a bit good.
I literally just got it out of the box and did a laser scan. No prep, no setup, just grabbed an object I've scanned before, threw it on the table and scanned.
Had a play with the 3DGS stuff too and that's awesome. I need to understand it some more though.
More to come.
u/Rilot — 5 months ago
▲ 4 r/Mustang
Stupid design rear calliper
Yay! Failed the MoT (UK legal road safety test) on the usual S550 Mustang issue of handbrake mechanism has seized on the passenger side. Stupid bloody design that you would have though they would have fixed for the 2018 facelift, but oh no. Gotta have an S650 for that.....
Oh well, car now has a "do not drive" due to the failure for brakes so I need to wait. A cheeky call to Motorsport and Performance has a calliper hopefully on its way to me ASAP.
u/Rilot — 5 months ago