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Here lemme help to fix that........lol

Thanks Justin! Jim: Thank you as well and I enjoyed the conversation as well buddy. Looking forward to talking to you again. Well folks it looks like this is starting to look doable. The basic set up here with the master cylinder/ brake booster set up: I primed the front brake rotors (washers) with black gloss yesterday and shot 'em with a coat of Alclad today. You'll notice that I flattened one side of the washers. This allows my calipers to sit perfectly on the rotors instead of looking like they are resting on the outside edge of them. I also cut some brass rod to .180" length to mount the rotors onto. The short length allowed for the "step down" to mount up the wheels later. Today I'll be drilling out the brake calipers for brake lines and painting the calipers red. I removed the chrome from both of the calipers yesterday in order to prep for all of the painting.

Tom: Thanks for the encouragement along the way bud. Cory: Thank you and looking forward to your build.

That Chevelle is gonna be a winner dude! Enter it and watch.......................

Thanks Dan! Hopefully this thing is ready for the show in October. JC: Thanks for the encouragement from you as well. I used the theory about 23 years ago on a build but never carried it further than just throwing a washer on the hub. No caliper and no brake lines. I thought I'd re-visit the idea and do it as right as I could this time. Tim: I'm movin' slow on this thing but hopefully progress will pick up a little when all of the engineering is over with. Will be watching for the results of the Spaz Stix. I've gotta order some for myself as well but have to wait a little bit. I unloaded a lot of cash at the Houston show. Ask Dan....................he'll tell you all about it. Greg: Thanks pal. I've got plans................ Carl: And I thank you sir. I don't know about that "easy" part. lol I still manage to pull off my share of stooopid stuff. Like this #45 right in the middle of the floor pan in the pic below. I ended up fixing it but what an oversight.

Watching.......

All I can muster up is.............."Wow!!".

Well..................let's see it there Justin. ....................

All of this great work from an "impatient" man?? LOL. Awesome work buddy Jim!

This is wicked!!!!!!!

'Preciate it Cory. What color are you goin' for for the exterior?

Here we go.......... . Go for it Cory!!

Dude, that aint a big enough difference to worry 'bout. I'll buy either scale and won't even think twice.

Great fit! I recently found out about this tubbing idea and it does work great. Good work Ira!!!

Neat idea on the usage of that BMF Jim!! I'll be writing that one down!

Now that's freekin cool!!!

Thanks Jim and Carl!! I almost forgot to go through the front wheel to spindle fit problem I had. Here is the wheel as it sits on the kit supplied spindle-not exactly fitting here: So..........I got some 1/8" brass rod and cut about a 1/4" long section and slid it onto the spindles and cut and rounded the ends of the spindle: and although it looks rough here in the macro photo, you can't see anything but perfect fit with the naked eye: I sanded my L bracket for the power brake booster/master cylinder assy this morning and set that aside. While all that was drying I flattened some concave washers I found with rubber backing on them. After flattening the washers I sanded all of the rubber backing off of them and will polish them up over the weekend to give them that "brake rotor look". I robbed some brake rotors from a 1/24 scale Monogram F-100 kit , trimmed them to scale length a little and cut a groove in the middle of them with my dremel to get them to fit over the rotor. I still have to cut into the centers to get them to cover the brake rotor (washer) surface a little better but I ran out of time this morning. Gotta get to work you know. Here's where I'm at right now with that..............

I'm in!

Tim and Randy: Thanks fellas!!! Well I've been slackin' on progress pics of this thing. I had "modelers block" last week but have been working my way through it now for the last few days. I was trying to figure out the whole brake system dilemma and I think I've finally got something started here. I found a master cylinder / power brake booster combo that is going to work. The problem is that the bottom of the power brake booster was hollow as seen from the bottom but the benefit here is that instead of being rounded on the bottom , it's flat. This is perfect in the fact that I cut the master cylinder from the booster and will rotate the master cylinder 180 degrees in order to mount the flat portion of the brake booster to the bottom of the cab floor. I also cut an L bracket out from some spare parts of another frame and drilled a hole in it for the booster to "mount" to. Perhaps I could explain it better in photos. Here's the brake booster/ master cylinder assy: (sorry for the blurred image on the first pic) Here is the brake booster and L bracket test fitted. I pinned the brake booster so that the master cylinder mount up to the booster would be a bit more solid. Looks like I'll be thinning that L bracket a bit to scale thickness as well. While keeping in mind that my results aren't going to look exactly like it, this is what I'm going for but with a slightly longer rod and another stand off L bracket for a brake booster actuating rod guide that's coming soon:

Progress?

Everything looks good from this angle Phil. Lots of detail and looks like the hard work on the panel fit paid off!

Charlie and Gene: Thanks a mil guys! Bob: Thank you! It is funny indeed! I still sit back and surprise myself.....a lot, but always remember where I came from.

The paint!!!!!!!!!!!! Need I say more?????

What a build! Clean, detailed throughout and sleek!! It just doesn't get much better.

I've got my Bf109 G-6 and my Ford F-100 to finish and I'm fairly certain I'll be tackling that 229 first.