bluestringer

It's a close fit, but I think I can get that 427 in there. I will have to mount the headers from the bottom after gluing in the engine. The fan assembly is going to be close, may need to manipulate it or the radiator. I'll be installing velocity stacks on the carbs, so I had to cut a hole in the hood. Or I may leave them off and put a scoop on it.

Anyone who has built this kit, did you have trouble getting the body onto the frame. I can't seem to get it on, keep breaking stuff off when I try it.

Thanks.

Here's my redneck engineered rear chassis. A little off center on one side, but I'm going with it. Got to clean up my "welds" and get some paint on it, maybe pick out a few details. I couldn't do much with the front except I cut the spindles off and moved them up a little to get it to sit a little lower. Still not low enough, I may work with the inner fender wells to see if I can get the body lower. Got to get that 427 built and see if I can squeeze it in the frame. Thanks for all the comments and encouragement.

Beautiful color. I love the 65 and 66 Impalas. My first car at age 16 was a 66 Impala SS 396.

Thanks Bob. Yea those tires look mean. I was thinking about putting in a hemi, but have now decided to put the 427 Chevy out of the Chevelle Pro Street in it. Doing some test fitting and there is going to be a lot of frame modification to get it to work. This is turning out to be more than I thought it would be, but I'm going to keep at it and get something built, but it probably will not be pretty.

Looking good Bob. Did you have to shorten the axle housing? On the 66 Chevy I had to cut off the differential and make new tubes on each side. Then I had to move the control arms and shocks more to the inside. Redneck engineering, doesn't look good, but I guess it works.

I've got the rear about where I want it. On the front I relocated the spindles a little higher which got it a little lower but not enough. Looks like I will have to cut down the inner fender panels to get the body to sit lower. Don't think I can do anything else to the suspension. I went with the smooth look on the back, no bumper. I cut a strip of styrene to replace it.

Not giving up, I'll redneck engineer something out of it. Right now I'm working on a 69 Camaro OOB build. As soon as I'm finished with it I'm going to dig into trying to get something done with this truck. It is fun.

Looking good. Love those hot rods.

Looking real good. Nice work on that dash.

Good start.

Looks great. Nice work.

Looks great Bob.

Got a rolling chassis...........

Thanks.

They are really cool. Mine will never be that good. Not sure if I should even continue, but I've already messed up the kit, may as well see if I can make something out of it.

That is some really nice work on those. Did you scratch build the tubs? Scratch building is way out of my league right now. I just got back into the hobby about 5 months ago. I've never attempted to do anything like I'm trying now, all my builds have been straight OOB. You are correct about the stance, and I'm afraid mine is not going to be low enough. I'm still trying to work that out.

Thanks Chaz.

Thanks. It's partly worked out. Still have to get the rear end to fit. Also thinking ahead on what engine I want to use. I was thinking a hemi, got an extra one in the 32 Ford 5 window kit. But then there's the problem of getting it to fit in the chassis. This is going to be a lot of work. I'm going to try not to give up on it.

Cut it off right above the wide cross piece, then cut it down the middle and took out some. Put it back and checked it, looks like it's ok. Now to get the axle housing and differential to fit.

Put on some floor polish for the clear coat.

It will need to be cut just forward of that wide crossmember because that is where the axle will glue in. Then the axle will have to be reworked to get it to fit the frame that has been narrowed. I'm sure it can be done, but may be too much for me. But as soon as I finish this Camaro I'm working on I'm going to dive in and see what I can come up with. I'm thinking about trying the complete frame from the 66 Nova kit to see if it will work with the truck body/bed.

I think I done got in over my head. Got the bed cut out for the big tires and tubs, but looks like I'm going to have to narrow the frame and axle housing to make this work. Not sure if I should use the kit supplied axle and frame or try something else. I will need to mull this over for a while.

Inspired by another member's pro street truck, I decided to give this a try. I've started the tubbing process, but not sure if I'm going with these tubs or some other option. I cut these from an old plastic pill bottle but they seem really soft and not sure how they will react with CA glue. The tires and wheels are from the AMT 66 Nova Pro Street.