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Is any of this stuff labeled "removes chrome from plastic model parts"? Is this Purple Power or that ZAP or ZEP purple degreaser? Dale

Johnny Gray/Pitch Energy Funny Car butt. The light was bad that day so it's hard to tell what's all in there. Ill check it out at the strip this weekend and report back. A similar car, that is, Johnny will be elswhere. PS: Yes, I was talking about a battery to run the electronics in the box. I don't know about the fuel stuff, but the data logger and clutch timer probably would have internal batteries. Dale

Have a look at ImageShack. It's what I use. Dale

All of the current crop of funny cars have a large black box just ahead of the engine that holds all of the electronics. It probably has a battery to run everything except the motor. Dale

A new meaning for "Attention in the pits. Attention in the pits..." Super Stacks Stocks in the staging lanes? Dale

Thank you both for the comments. This build has been quite a learning experience. I'm working on the windshields now. Screwed up the front one with some liquid cement but had a spare in my parts box. I think I can finish it this week, but I've learned not to push things. I have a broken security light to replace and there is a Lucas Oil Regional and Divisional race at the local track Thursday through Sunday, so I might go soak up the 1:1s. Dale

Funny cars got their start with match racers who weren't happy with the Super Stock stuff they could get from the factory, so they jacked the c**p out of their stockers. Fiberglass hood and fenders, rear wheels moved foreword to improve traction and injected engines with big stacks sticking out of the hoods. Resin on the track and wheel stand burnouts with no wheelie bars. I saw Don Nicholson put one of these cars on it's back bumper, and I think he did it on purpose. I digress.. These cars were door slammers and had batteries and were self starters. Blowers and remote starters came later. You can buy the original Pinto FC here on Racing Junk: http://www.racingjunk.com/Nostalgia/181880811/1971-COX-PINTO-FUNNYCAR.html Watch it run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZvNSupZ68s Dale

Thanks. I got the parachutes mounted today with PE washers for rings and little orange safety flags. I messed with 1.2mm rod half the day trying to build a cage of some sort to mount them on and gave up. I epoxied them to the tail. Works for me. Sometimes simple beats fancy hands down. Dale

They go from the garage where my paint booth is to my shop right after I spray the last part if it's a body. If its motor parts or whatever, I clean my airbrush first. That takes about five minutes. Lately, I've been using decanted Tamiya and I find that it's about tack free by the time I walk the 20 feet from the garage to the shop. It's all indoors, by the way. The one thing I don't like about the Ronco is that it has no switch of any kind, not even a power switch. I have to unplug it to turn it off. I fixed that yesterday with a cheap switched power strip. Dale

^^^ Thanks for the kind words. I've been at this one for two months and I'm finally getting to the end of the tunnel. Dale

With the front clip being what they call the hood and front fenders these days, a car with a clip can run as a gasser, but without it it's an altered. Full fenders are required in gas and optional in altered. This keeps changing over the years, but the A and C in your designations would refer to engine size in relationship to the cars weight. An A would usually have a bigger engine than a C car and be lighter, too. The S means it's supercharged. A/GS = A/Gas Supercharged. Some years you will find the first letter doubled for supercharged cars. AA/G or CC/G instead of A/GS and C/GS. Dale

Finished the paint and decals. Most of them are from the Net with a few from the Slixx Pro Mod grill set and Drag Goodies sheets. The engine has been rewired so that the scoop and body agree with each other better now. It has been clear coated with a semi gloss from Tamiya and waxed to seal in the decals and protect the paint. Now I need to bear down and do the details like the parachutes and their mounts and install the windows. Finally looks like a Race Car. Thanks for your time. Dale

Found some more info in my rule book. Current rules for Altered and street roadsters. It starts part way down the page. They run in Comp Eliminator. Current Altered:Roadsters.pdf Dale

What all these folks said. I started with a can system and at $16 a pop for the big cans, my compressor has payed for itself several times over. And I shoot a lot of Alclad, too. The ability to control pressure is invaluable. Not to mention the possibility of adding a bunch of big bad brushes to your stash... Dale

Since this is for a show with a theme, have a look at this site as a reference if you decide to stick to gasser. They race this stuff. http://www.nostalgiagassers.com Dale

At this year's Northwest Nationals in the Seattle area there was no traditional (as I recall it) Gas class. The cars I would have called gassers ran in Super Gas on an ET bracket system. Here's the section from the '13 rule book. Tons of corvette roadsters. NHRA Super Gas.pdf Dale

You have to join Facebook to even look at anything there. It's a deal breaker for me. Dale

I have both the Jungle Jim Vega and the Tom McEwen Duster cars in my stash. Revell used the same motor for both kits with the exception of a few details like the blower hat and breather caps on the valve covers. Both of the kits have front mounted distributers. The Vega is described as having a "blown fuel engine" while the Duster is described as having a "highly detailed blown and injected HEMI engine". Since the question is what motor did Revell put in the Vega, my answer would be that it's a plastic replica of a blown fuel Chrysler. In modern lingo, it's a TF/X motor. Dale

^^ Yes. As common as they are becoming, SSDs are still not for long term storage. That remains the domain of good old platter drives (or two). Note that I have an SSD with apps and my OS only and the data files are all on a platter HD. The whole thing is backed up on two external hard drives. Dale

I looked the 1:1 up and the motor is a hemi. All of the fuel motors have a front mounted distributor or magneto. The more modern engines have a duel system. Dale

If we had to be historically accurate in our builds, this place would be far more barren than the bottom of a vacuum tube at absolute zero. Dale Correct me if I'm wrong.

Just wanted to add reference pics for the sedan chop. Since there's interest, Here's the S/G winner. He's from Canada. Dale

I have found that the best way to handle photos on this forum is to stick to the menu tools in the reply window. When you are in Photobucket, use the direct Link. Pictures work better for me: Copy the Direct Link. Just double click it and it will copy automatically. In the Reply window, click the Image Icon, the one flagged in red, to open the Image Properties window. Paste your image tag from Photobucket in the window and hit OK. The forum software will add the correct tags to show it right. It will wind up like this. Sorry for hijacking your pic... Dale

Here's another reference pic from the same race. The Super Gas winner was a '57 Corvette roadster. Dale

Depending on how big it is, maybe. If the inside diameter is around 2mm or less you can run a pipe cleaner through it to fill the hole temporarily while you bend it. It's flexible enough to pull out after the tube cools. Insulated wire might work, too. What are you building? Dale