keviiin86

The theme of this one is a late 70s era bracket car. I tried to keep everything fairly era correct and only use parts that were available at the time. The basic chassis and engine are out of the box but I modified a bunch of stuff also. Cut the trans off and swapped to a th400 and moved the whole engine/trans further back. I added resin parts throughout from VCG, Iceman and futur attraction as well as fuel lines from detail master and wired distributor from M.A.D. Made the rollbar out of aluminum rod, narrowed the rear end and added a cross member and 2 upper control arms to make it a 4 link style suspension. The paint is GM mystic teal automotive touch up that I had mixed up in a spray can and clear coated. I threw in a picture of a 62 corvette I found on Facebook a while back which is sort of the "look" I was going for. Anyways, enjoy!

Thank you! Should have it done by this weekend.

Yeah I could have done a panhard bar, I just thought it was easier to add a tubular cross member and two angled upper control arms..like the GM A body/G body cars.

Thanks! The BMF took me a little bit of time to straighten the trim lines out on the coves picking at the edges little by little. As far as the color it's more of a green in most light. This is the color in the sunlight.

The engine and interior is attached to the chassis now, added some brake lines to the master cylinder and braided fuel lines..man I despise making braided lines with AN fittings, really tests my patience lol..but got it done. Have to finish putting the front and rear bumpers on and then the body will go on for good.

Got the rear suspension put together. I'm no suspension guru but the kit setup didn't make much sense..only has lower control arms with what looks like coil overs..if this were a real car there's nothing keeping the rear end centered..so I added another cross member and some upper control arms to make it into a 4 link. Then set it on all fours, starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Wow! I dont know how you guys do it with these tiny machined aluminum parts..never knew this level of scratch building existed until I started to frequent this site. Impressive!

A pain is an understatement lol..i had to polish everything the excess BMF touched because the adhesive left behind a glue residue.

Today I tried my hand at BMF for the first time..practiced one piece of chrome on the spare body first and dove right in..had to re-do one piece of trim but turned out pretty good i think. Normally I would just use a molotow chrome pen but since this model is sort of challenging to pick up and handle I didn't want to be touching all the chrome and putting finger prints in it so I went with the BMF instead.

Thank you!

Gotta play with the front spindles and move them in some and rearward to give more clearance to the front fenders.

I really like this kit but the wheels have the wrong offset, especially the rears...or at least when I compare them to the mid 60s mopars im familiar with. I think if I pick up this kit I'd have to grab some fireball modelworks mopar steelies and carbs.

Started fitting the rear end to get the desired tire "poke out". Decided to narrow the rear end a little to bring the wheels/tires in. Should sit almost flush, with just a little bit of tire past the fender.

Distributor and plug wires done..

That's one of the shifters from VCG..still blows me away with the amount of detail possible with 3D printing!

Put some of the interior together, and got the headers painted and glued on the engine.

Modified the kit headers a bit, shortened the primary tubes a little and chopped off the super trap mufflers, added flanges and collector extensions. Plan on painting them white and dirtying them up a little to give it a used look. Then I can mount them to the engine and put in a wired distributor.

Thanks man, have you started your 57 yet?

Pretty cool to see what you have going on here, considering I'm building a late 70s-80s era bracket car 57 corvette also. It'll be a race to see who finishes first haha. In all honesty though I work pretty slow and take plenty of breaks lol.

Paint is finished to my liking. Had to strip and repaint and clear the hood after having some reaction with the metallic in the paint and clear coat. Used rustoleum clear and lightly sanded and buffed a few spots.

Haha chips! I remember that episode.

Got some paint on it last night, came out fairly smooth, got a couple small pieces of lint/dirt in the paint that ill have to knock down with some fine grit paper then shoot some clear on it. Not bad though for a rattle can job. Paint is GM mystic teal automotive touch up that I had mixed up in a spray can.

I was curious which headers came in this kit but I guess you answered my question with that bag stating "dave strickler headers". I noticed in another mobius mopar kit they had those oddball super long primary headers, guessing this kit has the same ones.

Thanks! It's coming together..got the body in primer and had to do another mock up for motivation, cause why not lol.

Got the roll bar in place where I want it with the rear down bars, drilled through the convertible top deck lid for them to pass through and made sure the hard top will still fit. It will be a challenge to attach the rear bars and paint them once the rest is in paint though as it'll have to go together in a certain sequence.