Plastic_Passion

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

Did some minor things today. Took some measurements of the axle shafts. I marked a center line opposite of the mold line as the mold line was in fact centered on that axis. I used a real small counterbore tool, followed by a jobber drill and then a reamer. The rear axle was sketchy. I had 1 chance to get it right. Seems like I pretty much nailed it. The front spindles however.... well.... they didn't fare as well. I cracked both of them. One on the outer edge and the other right by the spindle. Not a huge problem yet. And overall the ends I drilled and reamed aren't even used... at all... well they weren't. They are now. Point is if I loose them and the idea doesn't pan out, it's not the end of the world either. I glued the crack and sent the reamer through it again. I'll send down the shaft to smoothen it out. Now I have to find some metal shafts and a couple gears. I'm going to pin the drive shafts and have a pinion set up in the diff so the driveshaft rotates with the tires! Also need to find some coil springs for a rc drift car. Or something of the like.

That's super fun!!! I'll have to reach out to him too. I have the factory decal sheet but it's worse for wear. I want the gray/black stripes and letters. And the 140mph speedometer. That should've been standard equipment for an iroc IMO.

I don't believe we can formally no. But I will PM you for sure. I'm definitely interested if you for sure want to part ways with it!

I'll be opening the hood vents like the DSE-Z camaro. Love that Detroit Speed car.

What are we talking? I'd definitely be interested in taking that off your hands in case something goes awry. There's going to be my most technical work yet on this car. I'm planning on a pinnacle moment with this build. So far I think my gt500 holds that case and there are a few nagging flaws with that. Things that won't be with this.

Tail light housings. Going to have to make something to keep the interior tub in place...

Control arm thickness (top to bottom) .29025 call it .290

Took some measurements while I'm at work. Sorry for the thumbs and busy background. But you get the idea where I'm going with this.... its gonna be a hackathon. Just realized while posting this I forgot to get the control arm thickness.

I just peeped Rays as well. He has a few in stock but they're pricey. Look to be great quality tho.

I've had a few F-body cars. An 84 Berlinetta, an 85 firebird base model with a 305 and a 5sp, an 85 iroc, and an 87 formula. I miss my formula. It was literally tied in the toxic relationship department with one of my exes. But I loved that car. This is how my formula looked new. It was a fully loaded (except the 350. Mine was a 305 TPI)ws6 car.

Wish I still had the mirrors to my 1/25... 😕

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Bahahahahaha I went back thru my activity to find that iroc I always drool over! ITS YOURS!!!!! I LOVE your car man!!!! One of the cleanest builds! And it's literally the Ying to my yang. Check this out lol this is my kitbashed 85 Z28 made into in iroc although not appropriate. But seeing your car I was like YES!!!!! That maroon and the bright blue metallic are my favorite. I wanted to paint my firebird one of the two colors but we just couldn't get along.

I've only seen one built 8th scale on here and it's enviable 🤤🤤🤤🤤 do you have a pic of yours?