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I was just goofing around with CAD modeling one day 15 or 20 years ago.

I was thinking of repurposing my old Nitrous Fogger Injected TriPower Intake that they're sitting on in that pic.
Figured I'd pull the fogger nozzles out and throw in some fuel injectors- and use the carbs dry as throttle bodies.

So I set out to redesign the carbs in CAD and was going to 3D Print them in Titanium just to be cool & different.

I have several 3D Printers.
Bought my first Stratasys Dimension when they first came out in the 90s.
Best tool to have in the toolbox for prototyping as a Mechanical Design Engineer.

Bought a 450MC when those machines came out- as a result of a successful collaboration with Statasys to develop a new high temp high strength static dissipative material with them (Antero 840CNO3).
That material has been made commercially available since then.

Next was another material development collaboration with EOS in Germany- which resulted in the purchase of a P450 SLS machine.
I pretty much use that now exclusively over the FDM- not only because of the higher resolution, but primarily because the builds themselves are isotropic vs the inherent weakness of FDM in the z-axis layering.
The material we collaborated on is a PEKK substrate with high carbon loading- which results in impressive volume resistivity.
It's a conductive polymer.

Was going to buy an EOS 290 DMLS for metal printing a couple years ago- but I couldn't get the target results I needed for the project I was working on.
So despite a healthy & impressive CBA with a 3 month payback- I went with MIM for that project.
That MIM technology worked out exceptionally well.

Latest purchase was something that would have made your initial post endeavor seem quite inaccurate & excessively labor intensive (although the CAD modeling is fun).
As a hobbyist though, you would have choked hard on the price tag for that accuracy & convenience.