Plastic_Passion

Well I've been on quite the hiatus lately with being a homeowner and renovating everything. But... cooler months ahead, means tinkering inside. Dug the car out of storage. Will be getting familiar with where I left off. Recently acquired an 82 z28 that im already at a crossroads with but its giving me a lot of inspiration to build the iroc. There will be roadblocks. I need to cast some parts for the partially smashed iroc (not this one im building but another one) and some parts for the other '82 I have . Shout out to Dennis Ezmerlian for those kits.

Can't wait to see what you do with this. I have 5 of these 1/8 scales now. I just picked up a mint condition 82 z body and related parts. I have a partially smashed 85 iroc. Im tempted to kit bash an earlier z with the iroc parts however I feel conflicted about it because the 82 is quite rare. I've been trying with the idea of claying and casting both the 82 z and the 85 iroc as I have two of them. Revell should really re-release both kits. The did it with the 79 ta.

Way back 30 years ago I built this model using a light blue metallic. I'm not sure which kit I plundered the eagle 50's from but they look so good on these. I'm going to have to build this again as a companion to the convertible I have "in progress".

This is beautiful! I'm a sucker for a nice looking 3rd gen and I'm a huge fan of blue! Beautiful work!!!

Also just learned I saved this car from a mouse. So that's a plus. How ironic tho. Mice just love cars I suppose ?

So knowing these posts on the rear axles have to go so I can do the coils that are supposed to be there I was curious about what the ride height would be if I didn't use spacers on the touring car springs. I decided I'd marke the posts and cut them at that height before I lopped them off completely. Doing the scale conversion it's roughly .25" which equates to a 2" drop on a 1:1 scale.

I see two huge roadblocks coming up. For starters I forgot that monogram used the spacer on the axle shaft as a tire retainer. This isn't going to pose a problem. However I haven't decided what the best way to attach the wheel to the axle shaft. ??? Well.... guess that's some brainstorming while I'm making jet parts. The other roadblocks is that I've cleared the material that they were using as a brake disc. I'm using a 1.25 inch washer behind the wheel. The problem is that since they molded the brake disc into the wheel I don't have clearance for a brake caliper. ?‍? for that I'm going to build up material on the face of the backing of the wheel. Once I have enough to follow the profile of the back of the wheel face, I'll trim some from the backside of the back of the wheel to make the clearance. Since this kit doesn't come with calipers I'll have to make them using the brake shield that mounts to the axle and spindles.

Working on the car a bit tonight. Stopped by the LHS and picked up a couple things I was hoping would make life a bit easier. Picked up a traxxas diff, some 1/24 scale shocks, and some 1/10 touring springs. I polished up the .125 metal rod I'm using as axle shafts. I'm liking where this is headed. I'm not one to blend hobbies (RC into styrene) however, the scale of things seems to work out a bit. The shocks came with really small screws. These seem like they'd work great for pinning things if you don't have pins. I'll probably use them for the rear shocks.

Went to the hobby store today since I was home with my sick pup. (He's fine, it was his birthday a couple days ago and he may have overdone it. To be safe we took a trip to the doc.) Anyways... because we're in the middle of a huge snowstorm they weren't open. To be fair.. 32" of snow and it's still falling... so there's that. I had brought the rear axle and top of the dif as well as the front control arm. I was going to check out their touring car springs and see if the 1/24 rc shocks would be a viable option. I was also going to see if they had a differential that would fit 1/8 rod. I'll have to do that Friday. I did pick up some springs from home depot but out of the 84 in the pack 4 of them look like they could work.... until I put the car on them. Too much sag with the weight of the car. Tonight I'll be working on making some tubular rear control arms. I'm going to see about making them out of sprue pieces. Sorry for the lack of pics. They're coming soon. Just busy with work and dogs.

I love this!

Got some small things done. Again conceptualizing the brakes because monogram took the shoddy way. I grabbed some 1.380 washers from work. They look to be the size(just about) and I have a couple 1.360ish ones too. However, doing the scale conversion with 12" front rotors and 10" rears I'm looking to be around 1.5" up front and 1.25 out back. Back to the washer bin. Have to pick up some styrene also so I can fab up some calipers. I'm liking the added weight to the wheels with the washers for rotors. I'll post pics shortly.

I was poking around on Evilbay and found the 350/t5. I kinda wonder if he has an ebay store or something. I'll check the sire for sure! Thank you for the heads up!

Well that only a huge PITA. The transmission in the iroc is incorrect. It's the same 305/TH350 that came in the 82 Z28 kit. We all know that model companies do these things to cut costs. However... it's funny to me that they made the whole TPI assembly but didn't mold the 700R4 transmission. Even the TH350 is incorrect. It's close but it's missing the clutch housing on the passengers side. Now I gotta buy a 1/8 resin 350 with a Tremec T5.... alright then lol

That's not the one I thought. I thought you had the maroon one. $20 is a steal for that in that shape! My first one looked like that but I had the red stripe and door decals