As part of our "open door policy" here at Champion, we love giving our customers, potential customers, and fans an inside look at the daily operations of our company and how our parts are made. The newest addition to our Werks1 manufacturing facility is our new Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling machine. Essentially, the FDM takes a 3 dimensional CAD design and allows us to print a mold front that design. Print? Watch the video and you'll see exactly what that means. The result of the printing process is a mold that is made of a special soluble support material. That mold can then be wrapped 360º in carbon, eliminating the need for any seams in the finished part. Once wrapped, the completed part is submerged in a special solution that dissolves the soluble support, leaving only the finished carbon piece. The other great thing about the FDM process is that changes can be made to the mold of a given part at any time, on the computer, without the need for producing a new mold every time a change is made.

Stay tuned for some more information about some pretty awesome new parts for the 997TT that are coming soon. Meanwhile, check out the video below showing the FDM printing the molds for our revised 997 Turbo carbon fiber inlet pipes. Enjoy

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That is slick!