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I had then managed to get the brake rotors installed and the brake calipers mounted up on that. I guess I could have made mounts for them but where does one stop? LOL. I did drill holes for brake lines to be installed and will be working on that coming up. I also applied some alclad to the inner rim edges and painted the backs of the wheels.

 

Here's the front suspension / brake setup:

 

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And another mock up just to make sure I'm still tracking straight here. Never enough test fitting I'll tell you that............

 

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:smiley16: I spent two days ironing the hood and body blemishes out from all of the ejector pin marks and sink holes. There were tons of these things present all over the body and hood!! This kit is not one of Revell's more stellar kits but the molds are pretty old so I have to remember that when I want to complain.

I removed the badging from the front of the hood and have completed all the body work on it. My next two plans for it are to cut out the rectangle in the hood for the carburetors and now that the bottom of the hood is all nice and smooth I'll probably shoot some chrome Spaz Stix on the undersides for a show truck style effect. Hopefully it'll turn out good enough to give a nice reflection of the engine off of it after I polish it up.

I've re-worked the newer firewall/ forward cab area both inside and out starting with the removal of , you guessed it, ejector pin marks on the cab side of the floor area. I moved on next to the firewall and removed all of the molded in wiring and component detail so I could install separate components and use real wire instead of the molded detail for a more realistic approach under the hood. I've still gotta fabricate brake and clutch pedals to make all that stuff work underneath.

 

Firewall with molded detail:

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and the newer piece without the molded detail:

 

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Next, after priming, I shot the coat of paint on this thing. Although the picture doesn't depict the exact shade here ( just short of a blood red actually) ...something tells me that I'm really gonna like this paint ! It is the exact shade of red I was after.

 

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Well the hard efforts have paid off finally. I've got the cut out cleaned up and ended up having to shave some plastic off of the bottom of the hood scoop so that the chrome air intake horn would clear the scoop. That thing is tight on the clearance!!! The scoop is only about .032" thick now in the center and I started with .058" !!!! I have the holes drilled in the hood and in the edges of the scoop so I will be able to pin it in place to make things easier to install later.

Still gotta prime it and paint but here it is so far:

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This is almost monumental considering that I tried to prime this already and the exterior of the hood turned out looking like somebody sprayed gray Rhino Liner on it. I have since stripped it all the way back down to the plastic and now have re primed. I ended up pinning the hood scoop so it will be a lot easier to install once everything is painted.

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Thanks Mark! Well I ended up shooting some paint on the hood and scoop. I still had some work to do on the clean up and polishing of it as I had some dust particles in the paint and one or two small bubbles to contend with.. I had set this aside for a couple of weeks and then started to work on smoothing it all out.

 

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I decided to reinstall the hood emblem that I sanded off initially in anticipation for the hood flames. I've at least gotta add it back to break up the monotony on the hood so...............

 

I've got two more hoods if I need 'em so I got this bright idea to use one. I cut the area containing the hood emblem out of one of my two usable spares:

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and sanded the area down on the backside until I had my emblem back.

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a little closer...

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and then BMF'd it with the "chrome" stuff.

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I was wondering at first how I was going to get through that obstacle and am glad that problem is solved.......
Now..............to the next challenge............

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Folks the motor is NOT done yet. I had to install it to figure out all the electrical ckt , fuel and brake line routing I've gotta do with this build. I've got it in there though! default_biggrin.png

 

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.I was working on the hood and firewall to stall myself long enough for a problem to resolve itself and I think it did. I was looking on my work bench at a broken 1/8" drill bit and was about to toss when I had another thought. I could use the smooth /arbor side of the drill bit for a master cylinder pivot point for the brake input linkage and rods. I cut the drill bit about 9/16" long, drilled a hole in the frame at just about the right point and pushed 'er through. It worked perfectly.....

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Something else also crossed my mind when I was doing some of the paint and body work pertaining to return springs. While I liked the idea of the wrist watch band retaining pin spring I was searching for a spring still yet smaller and more to scale. I do like a lot of the scratch work that goes on with home made wound springs but I just wanted something with a little more uniformity in the coils. I think I might have found what I'm looking for. My headlight burned out in my truck yesterday and wouldn't ya know there's a filament that looks like a spring in there? LOL. While a headlight bulb filament is NOT the right scale, a 3157 light bulb...................is! Today I broke a bulb on a spare bulb I had in my spare parts drawer of my box (all you automotive style mechanics out there know the drawer I'm talking about too--spare bolts, nuts , fuses, electrical stuff, and just about everything to put a car together and run with drawer) . Inside there were two filaments: One larger than the other and both more than perfect for what my use for them was.

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The next obstacle.............lengthening the driveshaft by about 1/4". icon_thumbsup.GIF

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.Well folks. Here's what the driveshaft looked like before all half hangin' out of the xmsn.

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I managed to cut a piece of brass rod just the right length and save the u-joints from the original driveshaft, pin 'em , position/ phase 'em and glue 'em into place

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and then a real light coat of flat black with a drop of gloss clear in it shot on at around 30 psi to give it a smooth and metallic look......and we're in business.

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I did manage to make some more forward progress in the way of brake lines. It's not much but its a start:

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. I didn't like how the brake lines looked being black and all so I removed them and shot them with a coat of aluminum and reinstalled them. Upon reinstallation I got a nasty glue boo-boo on the L/H frame rail so I fabricated an aluminized shield to go over the lines. It was either this or remove the lines, sand down the frame and repaint it so I chose a route which I thought would do the trick, look decent and still cover the mishap up. I still have to fabricate some stand off clamps holding the lines to the frame but here we are so far...


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.Ok fellas after all kinds of bending, cursing, re-bending, more cursing and yet more bending and forming(and cursing) I think I've got it. I finally got smart and took a photo of the last "screw up" with it installed and made adjustments based off of the photo. Why I didn't do this sooner is beyond me!!! I ended up having to slightly tweek the other front brake line at the distribution block to get it the two lines to look similar but I think I can move forward now. I still have the front part of the R/H front brake line to go and paint the line but this right here is a break through for me.

Here we go:

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.Ok I've got the fuel line formed and laid in place. Rear tires are now on as well as front rotor bearing caps.

To recap....

This is what the kit boxing has for the chassis....

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and here's where I'm at right now.

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With rear tire/ wheels installed and fronts test fitted into place....

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Still gotta install the exhaust system and a few other things on the underside but we're getting closer.

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.I started on the exhaust system and chose solder as the piping. The mufflers I got from a LHS in San Antonio in June that I like to frequent when I'm up there.

One of my lighting fixtures went kaput on me so I only had one light for the time being so the picture quality isn't what I like but here it is............
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.I got back on the exhaust again after taking a day off from it. I got the passengers side exhaust lead pipe formed, the front of it pinned so it would fit into the exhaust manifold and then got the length trimmed off so that the muffler would sit nicely beside the other one. All I've got to do now is drill into the muffler so I can pin it to the lead pipe then I'll see about how I want to go about with the tail pipes. If I do tail pipes I'll most likely make them same side exits with chrome tips. If not , it'll be turn downs. We'll see..............


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Progress on this thing is super slow due to my not wanting to get ahead of myself and have fit issues. For instance, I glued the exhaust into place yesterday and I found a small glitch this morning when test fitting the cab onto the chassis. The rear of the cab contacted the mufflers so I had to trim the cab to fit onto the chassis correctly. So far it's coming along ok. I'm going to run the exhaust straight out the back and am going to start looking for some either AM exhaust tips or I'm going to fabricate my own and use a little chrome alclad on them. Anyways here are the beginnings of the tailpipes.......

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The stance is dead on so far in regards to how I wanted this to look overall. I keep getting closer and closer to having this thing done in time for the Austin show in October...............

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Thank you Mark!!! :smiley16:

 

I went out and got the aluminum tubing I needed for the polished exhaust tips from HL.

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Here's how it looks right out of the package..

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So I cut a section and chucked it up in the Makita drill, grabbed some steel wool and went to town...........

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After the steel wool treatment I grabbed some Novus #2 and a polishing cloth. I dabbed some Novus on the polishing cloth and spun the drill up again on a low/ medium speed to polish the "tips" up. Here we are now with some nice exhaust tips. You can see the contrast between the side that was chucked up in the drill and the polished part. I'm happy! icon_yipee.gif

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.I was so concentrated on the finish and length of the exhaust tips that I completely overlooked the thick not-so-true to scale lip! I removed it and got 'er fixed. I've also got the other side cut and drilled out to scale thickness. I applied a future coating over the outsides to retain the polished look over time.

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Still trying to get the correct angles to match it up perfectly with the R/H side but we're gettin' there.....

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. I wrapped up the L/H tail pipe after 3 remakes. I've got it coming out equally on both sides and at the correct lengths. I have to do some minor tweeking on the exhaust pipe going over the differential on the L/H side due to the bed fitting a little crooked but that's small stuff.

Here's where we are now.....

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..I've gotta say that there were a couple of days that were trying on my patience and my eyes. I painted the carburetors a mix of chrome silver and gold and then toned them down with a light wash of Tamiya Smoke which brought out the detail a little better as well. After that I fabricated the fuel lines out of pins and solder. At first I had installed the fuel lines facing the wrong way so I had to start over and install the fuel lines with the inlets facing the passengers side instead of the drivers side where all my throttle linkage is supposed to be. Lastly I started to work on the throttle linkage. Jeez what a night mare! I paid for that one with a small headache from working under visor for too long without a break. I cut out all the PE for it and set it all aside last night and started to work on it pretty heavy this morning.
Anyways here's where I'm at so far just for a little progress report............


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I inserted the stretched sprue for the common linkage pivot rod so I've still got some work to do here like install the arms off of the rod and the linkage from the arms to each carburetor but you get the picture....

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Holy crap that is good! I could swear that when you are done that'll start up and run! Way to go!

 

As for Austin, it's a bit far to travel for me since I live in Southern California. I'm still trying to recover from two trips in July/August; one of which was to the IPMS Nationals in Columbus. Good luck to you there though!

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'preciate it Mark! I figured Austin was too far for you but I had to ask anyways. :D

 

I worked on the throttle linkage at the intake manifold starting with the base bracket. I formed it and added the retaining bolt heads and then installed both levers and a retaining nut onto both levers at the "pivot point". I actually went over this morning on time so I'm running short on that this morning.

Here's my reference photo that took me forever to find because I was looking for a carburetor and linkage configuration that I felt I could actually pull off.

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and here's the bracket and linkage that mounts up at the base of the intake manifold....(the camera kept trying to focus my hand instead of the part but I finally got it after a few shots).

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I forgot to post this earlier but the throttle linkage came from a place called Model Car Garage.....

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The nut and boltheads came from the same place..... (every now and then I get the urge to build a 1/24 scale warbird...some of this stuff would come in real handy there....)

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Later on I did some more work on the linkage. I've got to install a couple of pieces of hardware to top this all off but you're lookin' at about 95% complete right here. I've still gotta add the accelerator pedal linkage but that's it.

Remember that turn signal bulb that I broke and stole the filament out of? I used it as the throttle return spring......

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