‼️ UPDATE FORD E-RAPTOR grille swap and install tutorial

[Telemachus]

I bough one from AliExpress, arrived yesterday. Looks great. Hopefully I can install it sometime the next weeks. Oversizing the holes for the letters helped with alignment. Used an 9 mm drill bit.

My plan is to print a mount in iterations until it is right. And make a small as possible hole in the grill. And the seal around the camera with some black matte Tec7.

Iterations was my goal as well.

Then I figured I'd get the angle right with hot glue and backtrack from there.

Glue still holding strong, lol.

Next I have to align my light bar

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[hb.sagen]

After 4-5 different versions of a 3D-printet mount I finally got something that I will try on the vehicle.

It replaces one of the hexagons, so easy enough to remove the backside of the correct one (when I figure out which). I belive the lower wall of the hexagon needs some trimming as well, if so, I will make a jig for that.

This is printed at the lowest quality as fast as possible, and not finished any way. Just prototyping.

 

[AZT9]

Elegant solution!

 

[bordner42]

After 4-5 different versions of a 3D-printet mount I finally got something that I will try on the vehicle.

It replaces one of the hexagons, so easy enough to remove the backside of the correct one (when I figure out which). I belive the lower wall of the hexagon needs some trimming as well, if so, I will make a jig for that.

This is printed at the lowest quality as fast as possible, and not finished any way. Just prototyping.

Very interested in this when you make a final product!

 

[Telemachus]

Very interested in this when you make a final product!

It's a very cool idea, but you are going to have to cut out the bottom of the hexagon that you remove, to get the angle of the camera similar to factory default

 

[hb.sagen]

It's a very cool idea, but you are going to have to cut out the bottom of the hexagon that you remove, to get the angle of the camera similar to factory default

I did mount the camera and grill today. And the bottom of the hexagon needs to be trimmed, and more than I thought.

Keeping the original angle of the camera, and cutting only one hexagon, will limit the viewing angle achievable because the body of the camera hits the grill itself. I will trim some more tomorrow and see if its acceptable.

 

[AZT9]

I did mount the camera and grill today. And the bottom of the hexagon needs to be trimmed, and more than I thought.

Keeping the original angle of the camera, and cutting only one hexagon, will limit the viewing angle achievable because the body of the camera hits the grill itself. I will trim some more tomorrow and see if its acceptable.

Thanks for the R&D!

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