Hmmm. I have 3D printed gears and PLA gears have outlasted my expectations but I would never ever trust a 3D printed gear in a car or anything else that involves human safety.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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This Youtube channel is all about doing outrageous experiments and mods with old Ladas. Whatever they do really doesn't have to be reliable 🙂
Because they don't go on the public roads, or don't consider lives of ordinary Russians to be important enough?
I can answer this without watching the video: it'll work for a certain amount of time before it doesn't, and then your engine explodes.
Lada engines don't have valve / piston interference. They won't explode. But yeah: the 3D-printed parts won't last even a trip to the supermarket.
What about filling the oil pan with plastic, blocking the pickup, and starving the engine of oil? lol
Glorious soviet engineering saves the ~~day~~ half-trip to the supermarket xD
Luckily it's so empty that you won't have your car weighted down by your groceries
I see you have been traveling a lot in your long life.
Is that comment supposed to be mean ? (I genuinely don't understand, sorry)
BMW makes their engines out of plastic. They work, but not for long.