3D Printing for Motorsports
GAIN A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND CREATE FASTER MOTORSPORTS INNOVATIONS USING THE LATEST HIGH-PERFORMANCE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TOOLS AND MATERIALS
Maximize Performance by Combining Additive Manufacturing With Our Deep 3D Motorsports Consulting Experience
600–750
parts/week printed by one customer for wind tunnel testing
20+
years expertise in motorsports
Accelerate Speed to Track
Top racing performance requires robust, accurate parts. We collaborate to help you meet the innovation challenge, leveraging our decades of in-house additive manufacturing expertise and advanced material developments to help you build, test, and iterate more efficiently.
Using these capabilities and our industry knowledge, we’ll help you optimize new designs for high-performance and get effective solutions to the track faster
3D Motorsports Applications Built for Improved Productivity and Performance
Air and Fluid Handling
Air and Fluid Handling
Enable your engineers to optimize fluid dynamics and work within challenging space constraints. Easily test and produce parts with complex geometries, such as 3D-printed intake manifolds, that can withstand air pressure and flow, are nonreactive, and remain stable over time.
Metal Structural Components
Metal Structural Components
Create metal components that strike a careful balance between low weight and high strength to better manage the extreme forces encountered in a motorsports environment.
Following our additive manufacturing expertise, you can quickly design and produce metal structural parts that reduce weight, increase efficiency, and achieve strict dimensional accuracy. Quickly create and test multiple part iterations to enhance productivity and maximize structural performance.
Performance Wind Tunnel Testing
Performance Wind Tunnel Testing
Reduce the time it takes to build, test, and iterate parts for aerodynamic validation. Having our additive manufacturing equipment on-site allows you to quickly construct and test a variety of highly accurate metal and plastic parts that replicate finished motorsports components. This makes it possible to incorporate feedback immediately and maximize the time allotted for wind tunnel testing.
Body Exterior and Panel
Body Exterior and Panel
Test and create optimized exteriors fast. Our innovative additive solutions allow you to quickly iterate exterior part designs to reduce drag, improve downforce and aerodynamic impact, and maximize performance.
Manufacturing Aids
Manufacturing Aids
Manufacturing aids assist motorsports engineering and manufacturing teams with streamlining production and shortening assembly time. Being able to have available several replacement jigs and fixtures saves time, costs, and labor.
Energy and Fluid Management - (Metals)
Energy and Fluid Management - (Metals)
Performance vehicles have unique requirements for fluid and energy management. They need complex metal parts fitted into constrained spaces, with superior strength and corrosive resistance to handle high temperatures, harsh conditions, and various fluids. Additive manufacturing’s ability to produce complex, durable metal parts is ideal for providing solutions to maximize performance.
Performance Cast Metal Components
Performance Cast Metal Components
The ability to quickly cast metal parts is essential at all levels of motorsports. 3D Systems has developed innovative casting solutions to allow complex parts to be accurately manufactured with quick turnarounds to get teams on the track as fast as possible.
Powertrain and Engine Area
Powertrain and Engine Area
The powertrain and engine area of motorsports vehicles are subjected to extreme temperatures, vibrations, and impacts. Manufacturing parts capable of fitting into a constrained packing environment that can withstand such harsh conditions was once a challenge for 3D printing. Through advanced material science and record accuracy, 3D Systems helps mitigate these challenges, maximizing automotive performance and optimizing the advanced propulsion and control technologies each race team has developed and refined.