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My entry for the 2021 cannonball is a Revell/Monogram 1969 GTO judge body with a Revell modern NASCAR chassis and drivetrain The paint is a spray bomb Chevy Red with a few different shades of testors and tamiya brown and black with some primer grey and the iconic GTO orange showing through in some spots. the air dam is the Revell NASCAR rear wing that is modified to fit the front end of the GTO and the KC lights are from a Revell 91 Ford F-350 roll bar. The engine is from the NASCAR kit as well but with a few minor changes such as the supercharger from a clearly scale resin LS3 and it is painted a slightly more modern version of the original Pontiac blue.

The GTO will be at the finish line

Just waiting on door panels to dry and then the GTO body can be permanently mounted to the frame. I’ll only have a few minor things to wrap up on it after that and then the GTO should make it across the finish line.

Great work everyone, Can’t believe I only have a week to finish the GTO. I finally got some time to sit down and work on it today. I was able to paint almost all of the small parts, wheels and interior as well as get the ride hight setup where I want it and started mocking up an air dam on the front as well as two KC lights. Still need to finish a few areas of patina on the body and then I can start the final assembly.

Awesome to see an actual leaf sprung hi boy f250 and the warn style winch bumper and weld stone crushers with more aggressive tires are nice to, definitely going to be buying at least one of all of them.

Well I’m all for the birth year idea but I’m a little stumped on what to build for myself as I can’t think of any good 1:1 cars from 2001 let alone anything in 1:24/25 scale. I’ll keep looking though and if anyone knows of any kits I’m open to all suggestions.

An unusually nice fall evening allowed me to get the frame rail and floor welded into my 71 Plymouth valiant

Well the only thing I collect more of than model cars is hot wheels so I would definitely be interested in the hot wheels theme. But I know ill find something to build no matter what theme everyone agrees on.

After 2 years of cutting, welding and grinding I have finally finished the flat deck for my truck. Now I just have to prep the truck for paint.

Haven’t had much bench time as of lately but I did finally start laying some paint down on the GTO, decided that it would be best to go with a patina/beater style paint job because a bright orange gto would be to recognizable. I still have a lot of details to add to it but though it was about time for a progress update.

Test fitted the first of the two front frame rails that I’ve been working on for the past month for my 71 Plymouth valiant, the car has a sunroof and has sat for the past 20 years so the original frame rails were very bad. the new frame rail, it’s 2X4 1/8” tubing with a 1/8” plate on one side. the original frame rail.

Where I’m from autocross is just a track biult out of cones in a parking lot that people take timed runs to see who is the fastest.

I plan on fixing most of the problem rust this year and then I want to get into drag racing and maybe a little autocross with it for now and during the long winter months I’ll slowly restore and biuld up the drivetrain.

I purchased a 71 Plymouth Valiant 2 door with a 340 (car originally had a 318), factory bucket seat and consul shift 727 auto.

My Pontiac gtcamino project Also have a somewhat started project of the Krass and Bernie Car Toons Daytona (don’t have pictures of it)

I finally got to get some more work done on the gto today. the motor and chassis are painted and I got the intake located. Also realized that the wheelbase is about 2mm to short on the nascar frame so I’m going to need to extend it a little bit and I’m considered lowering the rear suspension 2-3mm so it sits almost level.

A flat deck I’m biulding in 1/24th and 1/1 scale for my truck.

It was the same here in northern BC, fired up my old v10 superduty and it only ran on 6 of the cylinders for about 1min and every single fluid in the truck was thicker than maple syrup.

Haven’t made much progress on the GTO but I did track down a supercharger for the nascar motor so now I should have somewhere around 1000hp under the hood. The only problem is that my fuel mileage will not be good so I will be biulding a bigger fuel cell.

There aren’t really any odd questions when it comes to making lawnmowers go fast. I have a little pipe fitting experience working with my Dad in the oil patch up here in the north and the 1” threaded pipe is perfect for biulding exhaust on the signal cylinder brings exhaust port is already threaded. As for the piping from the turbo to the carb it was a random radiator hose that the parts store had (the parts guys look at me funny when I said it was for a turbocharged Briggs lawnmower) and I didn’t notice any issues with it being kinked like that and I had already rotated the turbo outlet to the best possible position. If you look at the last picture of it burnt you will see that I completely abandon the stock carb due to the fact that it couldn’t supply enough fuel once it got above 6000rpm, which allowed for a much straighter run into the intake port and ran a small snowmobile carburetor on the turbo inlet side (it was pulled off during the fire and I never got a picture of it setup) the carb on the inlet side of the turbo is what caused the fire in due to compressed fuel and then it backfired and shot the flames everywhere. Unfortunately motorcycle engines are not allowed in the class I race in but I do have plans for a golf cart that involves a motorcycle motor and a turbo in the future.

Just got a lot of cool stuff from model builders warehouse

Theoretically I should have enough back pressure to spin them on a 22hp twin if I delete the governor so it will be able to hit 7000 rpm. I have already had a single cylinder 11hp Briggs spin a slightly larger turbo but unfortunately before I could drive it it had a catastrophic backfire and the entire lawnmower burned down....

I got a cupel ecoboost turbos that will likely be making there way on to a 22hp brigs v twin lawnmower this summer for attempt #3 at turbocharging a lawnmower. The two ecoboost turbos in front of a 12 valve cummins turbo.

A little more progress on the GTO, Going to use the stock nascar exhaust but with a few little modifications such as a H pipe and a secondary single exhaust existing under the car by the drives side tire going though a muffler to keep the noise down going though towns.

Two days of teaching myself how to tig weld and I’ve already started to lay down some nice looking welds on mild steel. This last picture was how the first hour of learning to tig turned out before I realized I did have my gas turned on....