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Jim, I'd swap locations with the lathe & spray booth in front of the Palm Tree wall art. WHat a great back drop!!!

I'm building the 340-6Bbl. now. And yes, I was happy to see the early water pump too! Just be careful with the preparation of the pieces as they need quite a bit of clean-up on the mating surfaces. But man, does it look nice! Post pictures of it going together!

Sweeeet! Nice to see a 1:1 replica done right. Cool car!

If I knew a 68 from a 69 Chevelle I would have aced it!

NICE JOB!!! Your `69 looks great Randy. The recall wheels are a nice touch. You also did a good job on the tail panel, which can be a challenge.

I can taste a little vomit in the back of my throat…….

All of a sudden, I can't upload directly from my computer to posts, now I must upload to My Media through my Gallery for everything to work. VERY cumbersome when adding 4-8 pictures in a how-to post. And BTW, I'm on Mac.

Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy….. I bought a nice, comfortable new chair for my workroom. And I'm off tomorrow. I see a bunch of updates coming soon….

With the sump the line is pretty much level with the pump, plus the gravity feed, and there's no issues. The front of the pump is shielded from debris from the tire and there's braided line. The Edelbrock heads are nice out of the box. When/if I build a stroker I'll open them up. W2-s are out of the budget....right now. Thanks for following along. More soon....

Well I think I'm taking it easy tonight. I'm in the middle of swinging a CVT transmission out of a brand new JX-35 at work and my back is aching now…. and tomorrow I continue. And that chair in my hobby room is shot to hell…. Tomorrow night we go to the accountant and will stop at Staples on the way home. I got permission to get a new throne at the bench. For now, here's some shots of all the grubby details on the 1:1 Oddly, this is the only picture I have of the engine before it went in. That's my boy Cesar helping me drop the bullet in. The only person I'd let near the car with a wrench. Here you can see the Orange, aluminum, and gold. Here's the actual sub-frame connectors. This is the tank w/ sump for the fuel line Next two projects: Fuel pump, shield, filter, and lines And these monsters that I have absolutely no clue as to where I'm getting them from….. These are TTI polished ceramic coated step tube headers, the ONLY ones that will fit without dragging on the street. Here's my reference for current and immediate sub-projects on this build. Geeez, I'm tired just thinking about all the work I have to do yet….

Tom.... the old AOL Saturday night chat. Wow.... Almost forgot about those early days. The model car list comes to mind too....

Actually that little piece of tin is a performance enhancer. It keeps the hot oil off the manifold, and the "air gap ", as it's marketed, cools the intake charge. Regardless, this is a neat build!

The problem here is not an over-worked staff. It's blatant laziness & indifference.... The stolen car example I used I was kind in describing the two lazy SOB's whom eventually showed up. One handed the paper work to my friend and napped while the other was texting as my friend filled the report. Yeah, they were prioritizing.... BTW: I live not even a mile from the station house. We went there and was told to go to the spot the car was stolen and wait. We didn't know it was going to take them 8 hours to get there.

Thanks guys, I have more. Last two things for tonight are going to be the sub-frame connectors and the MSD distributor. The sub-frame connectors are just a pair of steel tubes connecting the rear uni-body sub-frame which holds the rear axle and suspension with the front sub-frame that holds then other end of business. Even stock, these old Mopars handle terribly. Add horsepower and hard launches and one day your doors won't open and the back glass *might* pop out….due to chassis flex. When I welded in mine just pulling off the lift and making a u turn in the street I felt a difference. I have the Competition Engineering units that drop down as opposed to the Mopar Performance pieces that are straight. And would have been easier to make. These are eye-ball bent and cut to fit using some 1/8" brass square tube. The distributor is nothing more than some Radio Shack wire wrap, aluminum tube, and plastic rod. I filed 9 notches in the edge of the tubing Then I routed the wires into the tube with the plastic rod stuffed down the center. A drop of super-glue holds it together Now the wires are routed to the notches. I'll find a small nail to use the head as the wire retainer on my MSD unit. I'll paint the upper half of the aluminum red to resemble the cap. That's it for tonight gang. G'nite!

The six-pack manifold is a full bottom manifold. The 4 bbl. manifold it a high rise and theres a gap under it. Just slice a thin piece of plastic and slip it under just far enough to cover what you see.

Yeah…. I love these things too!

OK, today was spent fussing with little things, painting, and some fabricating. I installed the last bracket for the brake hose and added the side pieces for the tank support mounts. I still have to install the sump for the fuel tank (I keep forgetting!) and I have to make the sub-frame connectors and driveshaft loop. Here's todays results. I might go assemble and wire the engine later. Watching the Olympics with the Mrs. right now…. I have to find a small MILODON decal for the oil pan. The Lakewood scatter shield is a wheel back sanded and opened up for the clutch fork. The actual valve covers are welded aluminum sheet metal powder coated Alien Silver. I'll use Testor's German Silver on these scratch-built pieces. The holes are for the allen bolts on the 1:1. The aluminum radiator is buffed aluminum metalizer. Here you can see the mounting tabs for the e-brake cables on the frame railthe hydraulic hose mount for the rear axle. And here's a shot of the reinforced tank mount. A strap wraps around from up front and get's anchored to these plates with J hooks. This isn't hard, it's just tedious. A good supply of material is key. We might have more later, but that chair at my bench has to go….this week. Maybe tomorrow. I'll put it out in the trash TONIGHT…..

As noble a gesture that is, it would have been a waste of time. The fellow whom was doing the shopping today recently had his Honda Del Sol V-TEC 5 spd. stolen. He called the Police at 2:00PM in the afternoon They showed up at 10:30PM that night And even then they screwed up and posted it as just the plates being stolen, not the car…... We operate on a different set of rules out here, unfortunately.

When I bought my Camry wagon as a beater I got it from CL. I met the guy in a supermarket parking lot. He showed up with his 10 speed in the back. I left my friend & my Maxima as collateral and test drove it. I came back, checked the VIN to the title, handed him the cash, he handed me the keys, and he pedaled off down a side street….. But today was in a different league. This is the type of neighborhood where they find dead cab drivers slumped over the steering wheel…..as they're stripping the car.

That guy is my hero !

Gotcha! The valley plate is missing. There's an actual tin plate that lies under the manifold. I'm assembling a RG small block right now. If you prepare everything they look great. Looking forward to seeing more updates on this cool build. BTW: About your build. On a personal note, when I was 16 I totaled a borrowed `67 Polara around a telephone pole with me & my girlfriend walking away from a badly managed car. I look at your model and it's a sobering reminder of how lucky we were that night. The friend who owned the car forgave me…. the girlfriends parents didn't like me to begin with…. and my parents wanted to kill me. NYS DMV had a clerical error and never recored the summons from that night as I had no license. I got my license the next year without any restrictions. That night we won the lottery in many ways. Thanks for the reminder. It's good to be humbled once in a while. Believe me, what happened that night changed me.

I think I/we had a close call today! A good friend is car shopping for a beater for work. He find a too-good-to-be-true `97 Maxima for sale cheap on Craigslist. My buddy calls me & another friend to go look at it with him We get directions and the three of us drive down to the absolutely worst area of the Rockaway section of Queens. We drive to the street, turn right, and proceed to the address: an empty lot with abandoned buildings all around it. We call the seller and get no answer. I tell my friend whom was driving to get us the hell out of their NOW! We drive to the corner and get 3 blocks away while calling the seller again. He answers on the first ring and says "The car is sold" and hangs up. I wonder what would have happened if my friend was trusting enough to go by himself to look at this car. I also wonder if he would have made it off that street without incident being he had a few thousand dollars in his pocket….. That irked me today.

That's where the upper radiator hose connects.

Thanks Lee for the offer, but let's see what Revell does first. I'm not planning on building it right away, but fortunately I noticed it now, and not…. well, who knows. YEARS from now I would have found out and I would have no recourse with Revell, or at the least had more difficulty. I haven't asked a manufacturer for a missing/damaged part in almost 20 years

I just filled out the form and submitted it. Thanks for pointing out where to inquire. I had read the Mobius thread and was hoping it would be easily resolved. Let's see what happens. Thanks again!