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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Application Innovation Group
Our team can help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with additive manufacturing solutions. Together we’ll identify your needs, working with you to optimize your designs, prototype, validate and define a manufacturing flow.
NoSupports enables metal powder-bed printing without support structures.
Powered by 3DXpert software, NoSupports expands the design envelope, accelerates design cycles, and unlocks new applications.
The Experience and Technology to Gain a Competitive Advantage
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Improve Your Performance Faster
You don't have weeks to wait for parts; you need fast solutions. Our additive manufacturing technology is built to help you design, test, and iterate motorsports components quickly and efficiently. By reducing the time it takes to produce high-quality parts from days or weeks to hours, you can quickly improve the performance of the race car and gain a critical advantage over your competitors.
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Easy Access to Innovation
Our additive solutions make it easier to develop cutting-edge components that deliver superior performance. We give you access to a broad range of advanced materials and technologies, allowing you to design innovative parts that can withstand the sustained forces, vibrations, and extreme temperatures of motorsports. By leveraging the production flexibility of additive manufacturing, you can easily overcome the challenges of engineering motorsports applications and maximize performance.
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Extensive Motorsports and Additive Expertise
We are committed to giving you a competitive advantage using our solutions and expertise. We work with you to ensure that you are getting the most out of additive technology, whether you are trying to maximize aerodynamic performance, optimize strength/weight ratios, reduce component parts, or develop new parts within specific geometric constraints.
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Winning the race between the NASCAR races at Stewart-Haas Racing
The new SLA 3D printer integrates into the team’s digital workflow that includes 3D scanning and Geomagic Wrap reverse engineering software. -
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Carbon Fiber - A New Approach to Composite Fabrication
Benefit from 3D printing as part of your production workflow for complex carbon fiber components. Learn how you can achieve controlled surface finishes on both the interior and exterior of the part. -
The New World of Thermoplastic Manufacturing
Learn how you can bypass the cost and time of traditional tooling, accelerating innovation and gaining a competitive advantage by 3D printing a robust, load-bearing, high heat resistance material. This is ideal for quickly producing the parts you need that can also withstand the difficult environment and demanding stresses of the vehicle. -
Metal Printed Structural Components for Motorsports
Whether for mounts, rocker arms, or housings, metal AM delivers substantial benefits to many structural component applications. Because AM takes a digital approach, there are no custom tooling requirements, and accelerating time-to-track is a routine benefit of using this technology.