PRINTING A BUMPER

The 924S needs a new nose. The stock bumper and the lip under it were never meant to feed brakes, a radiator and an oil cooler at race pace. And we shredded the last version in testing. So we’re printing one. Design is done on screen almost entirely by Claude. What’s super noticeable is how much more proficient Fable is vs previous models when it comes to mechanical design. For example the sharing current mount points and a few pictures resulted in a complete first rendering that was pretty close. There were some packaging issues like where to run brake cooling ducts – we have important things like a giant loudspeaker instead of a horn. But then there was a bunch of proposed and quick math on sizing and routing airflow to radiator and oil cooler, without any prompting. We’re a few days from test fit but this is from a a few photos to get reference measurements. The whole bumper, rendered from the design. The amber blocks stand in for the stock turn signals. o o o ONE PART INSTEAD OF…

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