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Somehow I missed this being a dually. I'm not usually fond of slammed duallies with large diameter rims, but you know what? I think it looks pretty sick with that. It fits the truck very well

Absolutely true!

Ah, it happens! I've been considering doing the same with mine, since I do drive it on the street here and there. But idk, extra weight....

I'm learning that I love fab work, might have to open my own shop one day. Also digging the work on the model. Does your 1:1 have both seats like that?

Small update. New rear end and four link brackets. Still have to make brackets for the wishbone. The rear end I made earlier was a tad too wide, so the brackets would hit the tires. This one is a little narrower, and looks much better anyways I think. The other one was not very clean. Don't know if I'll have time to do much more today, we'll see.

Well, idk about that. Cars sound a lot more fun...

So glad to see the project isn't abandoned. Wish I had money for a coyote for my 1:1 though, I'm settling for a twin turbo 351. Are you gonna use a coyote from another kit (if there is one) or scratch build it?

I was just looking at my last build again, thinking "wow, this thing really does look good." Then I came back to this post, and realized I have a lot of improvement to make. That's amazing, even incomplete. How did you get all the little wires to cooperate?

Google helps, and here's a little tutorial (not mine) that'll help get you started. For my current Nova project, I just looked up "chevy ii tube chassis" and got several pictures to go off of. These aren't really vehicle specific though, you can take concepts from any and make them work for what you're building. I also used Clay's 70.5 pro mod camaro on scale auto (yeah yeah, different forum) as an influence and inspiration, I'll leave a link to it as well. http://cs.scaleautomag.com/sca/modeling_subjects/f/31/t/95376.aspx?page=2 Tube Chassis Tutorial.pdf

A little. The seat now has a hole for harness straps to go through, that and the rear end, tranny, and engine are painted. And I put in some sheet styrene where the trunk goes and FINALLY finished the rear of the chassis. But that is not pretty at this point in time, still cleaning it up. I don't have pictures at the moment, I'll get some posted with hopefully more progress this weekend. Edit: Actually, here's a few pictures. Sorry for the one being dark. I finished the funny car cage tonight, so I thought I'd share. There's only a bar or two left, and a few little pieces of sheeting maybe, then I can primer the cage and go from there. Also thinking I might use the kit wheels, idk if I said that before.

Think I found my problem with the printer. However, I don't know how to fix it yet. So, rather than trying to fix the problem, I simply scratch built a seat and rear end (because that makes sense...right?). Both need work yet, but getting there. Hopefully my driver is skinny, cause that seat can't fit a very big person. I'm a little guy, and I would barely fit. It'd be tight. The rear end has been a pain, but it's the right width and everything. Still need to make a centersection for it. The doors have partial bodies as well, now, too, and I found something to use for the charge pipe on the motor. I believe you guys have seen everything else. It isn't much, but it's something. Hopefully it'll have rear suspension soon.

Definitely following. Gotta love the custom fab work!

Those tires look huge on that thing. I bet it would be loads of fun to play in the mud with. Good job

I've been hoping for some as well. Hopefully he posts something soon, I'd hate to see the project abandoned

My 3D printer is giving me fits, so might be a little bit before I actually get a decent seat printed. I've decided I need to start on suspension before getting too carried away elsewhere. I was wondering, how do you guys remove wheel backings? What I did on my impala model was drill out the perimeter (as I've started here), and then cut the remaining pieces with an xacto. However, this is going to take forever with these thick backings. I was going to use a power drill, but don't have one that will fit my small bits, so my pin vise is my only option. Any ideas? Don't have any other updates as of yet. I'll try to get something worth showing done

I feel like that would take a month of Sundays, and leave a very fragile part, but that might actually be worth trying one of these days. Now you've got me thinking.... Alright, back to your regularly scheduled program, I'll stop hijacking lol

I considered going with a racepak as well, but I wanted an old school feel to the car, besides the motor. The dash is a little short width wise, and it sits just barely too low, but I think it'll work. Hope so anyways. I'm still trying to come up with other systems I might need to fit in the passenger seat and trunk. I went without an alternator, so it'll have 2 batteries next to the fuel cell in the trunk. I'm not sure what to put on the other side to even them out though.... I'm printing out a new seat at the moment. While it's printing, I'm either going to work on the rear of the chassis again or start on the bodies of the doors and structural parts of the body itself. I have pieces for tubs cut out, too, I might shape those today if I get around to it.

Hadn't thought of that. Good idea

Haven't done much. Got the dash in, still cleaning it up. 3D printed a 3 speed Lenco trans, have to clean that up yet. I've been kinda fighting the rear of the chassis, I'll show you that when I finally get it. Once I print out a new seat (the one I wanted to use is technically 1/24 scale and doesn't fit how I want it to), I can finish the funny car cage. Probably won't make much progress today, since I'm going to hang out with Aaron Kaufman and a couple other guys at a track not too far from here. Hopefully I can do a little more tomorrow and have more progress to show

Like Belugawrx said, 1 part paint to 10 or 11 parts water. So I get a little container of water, and then I have a little 3D printed cup that's empty. One drop of paint on my brush, put that in the cup. Then dip the brush into water and mix with the paint. Repeat the water 10-11 times

I use some cheap flat black acrylic from walmart. One part paint to roughly 10-11 parts water works wonders for me. If it's too thin, go over it again. That's what I did here on the grille, and that was only 2 coats

I don't have an airbrush, so that would work fine. I have seen that paint before, which I do like. Just for replicating that car, it shouldn't be a metallic color is all. The anodized blue I'm using for this model was an idea I got from his car, since his was anodized green (that I can't seem to find anywhere). If I can't get somebody to mix something similar to what the car really was, that is probably going to be my best bet. Also, was that normal chrome bare metal foil for the trim on that car? The stuff on my impala build didn't turn out near that shiny

Little progress on the motor. Valve covers are the same blue that the top of the car will be. I'm having one problem right now, though. I'm trying to make the tubing from the procharger to the intake out of styrene tubing, and I can't seem to get it to cooperate. First time using styrene tubing, so I'll have to see if I can't find some help somewhere here in the forums. Also, you can see in my picture where the dash will sit. Still trying to figure out how everything will fit together there. Also, just noticed a clearance issue up front. The chassis hits the crank sensor pulley thing (forget the name). I'll have to move the supports forward a bit

I've seen that car! Somebody definitely knows what they're doing with it! I actually considered doing a supercharger like that, but I wanted to see how well I could make a procharger or turbo work, so a build like that car will be coming up before too awful long. I have a small update. I have the firewall mostly done, and a motor plate. The firewall will extend up to the dash when I get that in, that's all it needs besides finishing work. I still need to make mounting brackets for the motor plate, too, but that's not really firewall stuff. The chassis just needs a couple bars up front and the rest of the funny car cage, and a little work in the back, then it's done besides flooring, tubs, that sort of thing. The engine is in primer, just to help me make sure you can't see the layer lines from the printer.

This is my personal favorite. I saw it at Bandimere when I went to the Dodge Mile High Nationals this year. It was the only door slammer in it's class. I never got to talk to the guy and see what was in it, but it was pretty sick. My original intention with this build was to replicate it, but finding paint and everything (while not knowing anything about it) made that difficult, so here we are. Another that helped make the Chevy II one of my favorite drag cars is Ziptie, JJ's old car on Street Outlaws Memphis. It's hard to beat the look of a Chevy II with slicks in the rear