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Whoops, missed your comment (last one page 1). It's more like this project is kicking my butt! ? Got over the biggest hurdle without doing a faceplant. ?

Thank you for dropping in! ? Finally sat myself down, put aside the whiny brat little voice ?, and forged ahead to do the plumbing. I will admit to making up the intercooler mount, which is aluminum plate, punched holes American hot rod style (I'm sure Porsche had a much more complicated setup), added some photo-etch bolt heads for the final touch. Hand painted the BEHR, no way was I using the thick decal, which was a generic font anyway. I cut off the pipe down from the air box, made new aluminum rod pipes all the way to the turbos. The single pipe from the intercooler to the intake is solder. It took at least 90 minutes to test fit about a hundred times, but I *had to* put in what both kit manufacturers left out. I assumed they rotated the compressor part of the turbos, stupid to point the outlet outward and turn the pipes 180°. Aiming inward reduced length and avoided interference with two other pipes. I had the body/chassis screwed together for fitting the parts. I had temporarily glued the intercooler into the hood, then I winged it (pun intended) for making the mount. Same with fitting the 3 pipes. Saw that someone else had added hose clamps, so now I *have to* do that before calling the engine done. Then I can airbrush flat clear/tan "dust" around the engine, then add grout dust, before buttoning up for the last time! Scraped the skid plates across extremely rough emory cloth, then painted and wiped. The pictures show how sloppy this build is, can hardly wait to really muck it up, as a proper rally car that was rode hard and hung up wet should look. ?

I have the Audi Quattro kit. Too bad they didn't do the engine (but I know there is aftermarket), nice this has the engine. This is a very cool subject, look forward to watching this!

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Welcome to the forum. I'm not a newbie, and would like to see expert advice on this too! Could save the trouble and shave everything. ?

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Well executed and cool subject! I had considered doing this to the BTCC wagon, but chickened out. Subaru Impreza is another possible civilian conversion. Thanks for sharing, gives inspiration.

That's awesome! Where is the can with the nuts? ?

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My dad's father bought this '57 Handyman brand new, traded it for a '72 "Chevy" LUV before he died, which is what I inherited. So seeing any wagon no matter what is done to it, makes me smile. I dig that old British car with the blown engine. Facebook ad for a handyman had this Ca...an.

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I listen to the little voice that says "I wouldn't do that!" ?

Thanks for additional input everyone! Without having the MPC kit to touch, based on the photos, looks a little more accurate, but missing the vents at the trailing edge. The spare is properly mounted to the transaxle. Looks like the glass fits tight, the gaps on the IMC are HUGE. The nose profile is longer, have to assume that was fixed after they discovered aerodynamics is important. ?

Always fun to wreck lousy kits! LOL When I travel, will do a u-turn when spotting any size junkyard. Wish I had the room and time to do what you're creating!

Got this via Fakebook Marketplace, seller has 2,000 models to sell (he listed a Morgan 3 wheeler), I asked what he has for foreign subjects, this BMW M1 was something I have never seen before. It's typical Airfix quality of the era, but it does have an engine. The Niki Lauda / evil cigarette advertising decals look old, but they should work. Didn't think I wanted an M1, but why not?

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I'm determined to finish this! Have a model club meeting this Saturday. ? Made water bottles from sprue, and cages from aluminum plate. Added plug wires to the engine, before gluing it into the chassis. The wheel shafts need to be trimmed down, that's why they are sticking way out. Hope this is the last time screwing the body and chassis together. Fabricated the spare tire strap from paper and photo-etch fret. The intercooler is to be glued to the hood, zero turbo plumbing in the original Tamiya kit and transkit. This drives me nuts! Need to fabricate a convincing mount for the intercooler, and redo the piping. I cut the turbos apart, rotated the compressors so the outlet points to the center, not outward. Gonna be fun cramming all that into the remaining space.

Buzzkill. ? Doesn't matter anyway, nobody will notice.

I've done military models to jump-start with. Don't need to primer, polish, etc. When I was trying to avoid rushing a project, I built three 1/72 airplanes to distract myself. ?

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That *never* happens to me. ? I call it crapsmanship. I had the paint crinkle in spots, after going for the color twice. So made the executive decision to make it a work-in-progress, budget restoration. The really big **** up was stuffing the parts box 427 engine in, then looking up the scale of the donor kit and seeing it was 1/24, when this Corvette is 1/25, amazing what a difference that made! So it's a 502. ?

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Of course! When I karaoke this, I update to "...my Lamborghini does 255..." That came out nice! Almost everyone puts new wheels anyway, the BBS fit perfect. Nice bumper change too.