Katsusauce

So here's I'm using only the ends of the plastic steering linkages and lateral bars, drilled holes in them and attached them to stainless steel rods that have been cut to the appropriate lengths.

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Fuel and oil lines are done. 🤙

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I got a lot done over the past few days. I shot the chassis with Roth "Bad Azz Blue" metal flake, the holes in the fuel cell were filled in and drilled new holes in it and painted it with Splash Paints Aluminum Metalizer. Made the seat belts harness and transmission blanket straps, ran the fuel and oil lines, mounted the motor, and headers.

Thanks. Yes I put some wire through them.

Not sure if it's correct, but i fabricated a lever for the shut-off valve.

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Got a lot of the motor assembled. Not using any of the tubes, and wires that came with the kit.

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Started by stripping the chrome off of almost everything. First up, the supercharger.

Thanks! 🤙 The wheels are from an AE86 kit, and I used some stretched tires from an Aoshima set of wheels. Orange wheels are hard to find nowadays.

Body is on, lights, mirrors, wipers. All that's left is the PE parts, side marker lights, and detailing the wheels.

Color is done. 2k Black, sanded, buffed, and polished. The blue you see is the reflection of the sky.

Dash finally got finished. The digital gauges didn't work out very well, so I just used the gauges that came with the kit. Applied resin over the gauges, and monitors, and made the "crystal" gear selector out of clear sprew. The steering wheel was printed by my buddy Matt Reynolds The metal flake I usually use on my bodies were a bit too big for the steering wheel so to give it that look of a flake wheel I used silver pearl pigment over black, then kandy blue.

Been pretty busy doing other things and haven't really been able to sit down at the bench and build. Got a little more progress on the interior.

Decided to go with Yamamoto Model Car Parts DTM style muffler. Notched the rear for the opening, and mockup.

The interior has color and flocking. The table fits great with the rear seat pushed back into the cargo area. The chrome paint on the door handles is Green Stuff World The chrome trim on the front seats is Hasegawa film.

We have stance! 🤔🤔🤔

The rear suspension was super easy. Cut down the mounting just a bit (2.75mm) and filed the wheel mount to camber the wheels into the wheel well. I use a camber gauge by ZoomOn Models to make sure it's somewhat accurate and symmetrical (or close to symmetrical 😂).

The front lower arms needed to go up so it meets the lowered state of the spindle. A little work with my "V" shaped file and a little heat from a hair dryer fixed that.

Front suspension is pretty much dialed in. Hard camber. 😂

The Cube has to have a rear spoiler.... it just has too.

I decided to cut another hole in the dash....the glove box to be precise. Printed up an android home screen for the audio opening, and a Sony home screen for the glove box monitor. I decided to go with Tamiya's Bright Blue and Black for the interior colors.