Crazybuilder Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 For this build i decided to combine a General Lee Dodge charger kit and a Ferrari Enzo kit i received partially-assembled from my friend. This is my sketch of what i would like have for my finished product. I'll be going for a patina, which i've never done before, and a lot of customizing and scratch building, such as poking the Ferrari engine up through the hood, kind of like a shaker hood, and attempting to put some vents just behind the doors. I started by fitting the originally rear-mounted Ferrari engine into the charger engine bay. i had to do a lot of cutting and shaving to make it sit the way i wanted it to, and had to lower it to poke out of the hood the perfect amount. I also used the wheels from the Ferrari, which forced me to create my own suspension, which turned out great, until i realized that, while i was test fitting the chassis, interior and body together to check the stance, i had the interior sitting too far forward the entire time, which messed with the stance. By the time i realized this, however, i had already glued the suspension to the chassis, and couldn't remove it to adjust the stance. my solution to this problem was to make some spacers to put in between the interior and the chassis, which raised the body off of the chassis a little bit as you can see in the close up picture above. i will have to accommodate for some gaps that this caused, but any other solutions i could think of only caused more problems. This issue could have been avoided if i had noticed where the correct position for the interior was, but I like to think it was partially because of the quality of the kit. There aren't clear connection points as far as I've seen, so a lot of the gluing is basically just wherever the pieces make contact. The next step was to attempt to make some Ferrari style vents behind the doors. I cut holes in the side of the body and put some vent-like pieces from the Ferrari kit into them after I closed in the spaces and made the curved piece that connect to the body out of styrene. I then filled in the gaps with some putty and smoothed it out. The vents are a more basic shape than the Ferrari style i was thinking of, but if i wanted to make it the way i originally imagined i would have had to flare the rear fenders, which i don't think would be worth my time since just doing the way i did took quite a long time in itself. By making the vents go inwards into the car, they interfered with putting the interior in. I decided to cut some holes into the side of the interior to make it fit, and cover the holes by making a "backseat cover" type of thing, which also helps to give the interior a Ferrari-like look, and made it a two-seater. I then put a curved piece that connects to the center console onto the cover, to once again give a super car style. I still have one problem with this that i haven't solved yet. I covered the holes in the interior on the sides, but there is still a gap between the body and interior in the corners by the windows that has to be there in order to make the interior fit because of the vents. The only option i can think of is to somehow cover the gaps by attaching a piece to the inside of the body, above the vents instead of attaching it to the interior piece, but i'm open to any other ideas or suggestions. I also combined the dashboard of the Ferrari with the Charger's. I used the outside of the Charger's dash for it to fit into the interior piece, and with some cutting, gluing and gap filling, combined the Ferrari dash right into it. I had to scratch build the piece that connects to the center console as well, because the original piece that was there was accidentally cut too short when i was fitting the dash. That's all i have done so far, but i will soon be replacing part of the rear bumper with part of the Ferrari's, and probably dealing with other unforeseen problems. A lot of customizing = a lot of issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfan Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Interesting idea, can't wait to see how it looks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espo Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Very interesting concept, but the I think the side intakes where to direct air to cool the rear mounted engine in the Ferrari. With the engine in the front is it really needed other than a styling feature ?? I like how you combined the two dashboards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 This will be fun to watch! Very cool concept. I like your progress so far. Adding to what Espo said, you could set up the rear vents for brake or rear-end cooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazybuilder Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Very interesting concept, but the I think the side intakes where to direct air to cool the rear mounted engine in the Ferrari. With the engine in the front is it really needed other than a styling feature ?? I like how you combined the two dashboards. I get what you're saying about the vents, that thought crossed my mind too, but it never was meant for function, only style. We will say it cools the rear brakes lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazybuilder Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 This will be fun to watch! Very cool concept. I like your progress so far. Adding to what Espo said, you could set up the rear vents for brake or rear-end cooling. thank you! And yes, I will go with the function of the vents being to cool the rear brakes. I added the vents purely for style and to provide the car with a more noticeable Ferrari-ish style that I believe would be partially lost without the vents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbazzarex Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 looks cool so far, i had a 4th gen trans am kit and a viper kit set aside to do the same kind of build. this is great inspiration to get back to that soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exesivefire Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 really cool concept Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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