diymirage

thats a great looking bike i actually graduated up from a yamaha (88 DT50LC) that was also a great little bike but nothing like the KDX for some reason i had that yama' for 2 years and didnt get pulled over once the KDX i cant take out of the garage without getting pulled over i added indicators to it (not that i need them to be street legal but just to look more the part) and they STILL hound me

the first car i bought when i came to this country was a 94 mitsubishi mirage i didnt have any money to make any modifications so i made do with cheap junkyard parts that i modified myself (Do It Yourself) so when i joined the mirage performance forums i came up with the screen name DIYmirage heres a shot of the car, hood scoop from a subaru impreza front bumper from a mitsubishi eclipse (had to resculp the headlight sections of the bumper to make it fit) aftermarket side skirts from a 97 eclipse, also needed some extensive fiberglass work in the rear section not that i was new to this home made car modding, before the mirage i owned a opel kadett (pontiac lemans) with a homegrown sheet metal body kit and hoodscoops from a rover as for my avatar, that a model car i build for the wife a few years ago (thats her on the hood)

Im running an aftermarket expancion chamber on it but it has the stock muffler WITH spark arrestor The stock pipe wasn't any quieter But at the day its still a 2stroker and zounds the part (but luckily it also has the typical powerband)

to the best of my knowledge he didnt see me pop any wheelies oh, and i wasnt on the freeway, just a road on the outskirts of town but i can understand how it doesnt look street legal and on top of that its a two stroker so it probably doesnt sound street legal iether...but it is

yeah but it will be a slow ride...remember the powerded donut comment? today i went to run an errand, no more then 2 miles round trip and guess who i ran into ? didnt get a ticket since the bike IS street legal but he did want to see all the documentations proving that

gotta love the white letter trick i dont use it too often but it's saved me more then once

tell her to get back into the kitchen and cook something up that smells better (DIYmirage does NOT actually endorse telling your wife to get back into the kitchen)

looks good i used the same kit for my garage, but i made the floor and walls myself, using the tools from the kits to make it more realistic as you can tell i still need to install the door

heres me with my bike its like riding a powdered donut around town i call it my barney bike

if you'd allow me to share a quick story about my dad Doc. i was 16 years old, a snot nosed little punk who knew everything about anything and dad was only good for money, that old geezer didnt know squat well, dad was kind enough to drive me out to this guys house where i was going to buy my first bike...nothing to special, a mid 80s honda MTX, street legal dirtbike up untill this point i had only driven bikes with centrifugal clutches and variomatic transmission, nothing with an actual clutch lever when we got to the house i couldnt believe my eyes, this bike was every little kids dream, big knobbie tires, loud exhaust and a 5 speed tranny i got on it and stalled it 6-7 times in a row, i just couldnt ride the darn thing the old man looked at me and said, let me try that once he hopped on, dropped it in first, popped a wheelie, shifted into second, dropped the front back down and hit third before the end of the street i think it was that exact moment i realised...maybe the old man does know a thing or two

the real car was indeed a regular fully restored plum crazy purple 440 charger they added the rear window form a corvair (i believe) to make it look like a daytona as for the wheels, they are pretty standard cragars if im not mistaking (but the back ones are deeper) also, one of the fronts is a steelie ? i have seen several nicely build models of this car and im actually gathering parts to make one myself

ages ago when i was 12 or 13 our family dentist decided to retire over the years he had heard that i build models so when he closed up shop he actually gave me an old dentist drill with a few different bits i remember sitting up in my little room with the drill wired into a a powerconverter (12 volt output) putting bullet holes in my model plane as for doing embarrasing things for models, i cant think of anything not mentioned yet actually....there is one thing, i tend to take little tidbits from my job tiny scraps of aluminum tubing, screens, ink everytime i look at something that needs to get thrown out i get this look in my eyes and my boss askes me "gonna use that on a model?"

my biggest hindrance has got to be detailing the interior i just can not get the dash to look nice, the gauges, switches, radio all that stuff dont know if i dont have the right brushes or my hands arent steady enough but that is something i allways fail at

honoustly, when i think recall mags i see a 442...not a mopar

thanks for the comments guys the interior on ths model is very simple, but i like it in this type of build the pictures dont show it very well but the interior is made to look like a gutted interior, including lack of rear seat and floormats i spraypainted it with allclad to look like just that, a stripped interior all things considered i really enjoyed this build (and im not just saying that because i actually finished it)

yuck but if you insist...try revells california wheels series

never checked the part numbers on my needles BUT youre right about the rings thats how i keep them apart though i cant remember now if it is 1-2-3 or 1-3-5 iether way, it sound like you do have a double

what about the modified stockers ? i have the 53 ford car hauler and it came with 2 spare racing tires as you described BUT i cant remember if both sides were eqaul or not

this seems to be the most popular way http://www.ebay.com/itm/TSD-450FPS-Airsoft-Guns-spring-air-power-Sniper-Rifles-M-SD700-bb-2X-Mags-Comob-/290669148463?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43ad3b392f

the revell 68 charger has some nice keystone classics...i like those any old PMC muscle car kit that comes with blue streak goodyears will suffice, i personally like the 74 GTX it has these somewhat out of the ordinary rims OH, stay away from centerlines they are in EVERYTHING

good looking car but whats with the license plate, shouldnt it be blue and white, beign a classic car? or does it have a re-issued title? never mind, im just getting old i guess, 89 isnt what comes to mind when i hear "classic"

well, here she is, my first completion of 2012 its a MPC kit from the mid 80s and typical for the part there is no mention of the year (74 maybe) the part count is very low (and half of those are optional engine parts) it has little detail and a metal rear axle...it just might be the perfect model kit the paint is model masters rattle can panther pink the white bilboards were donated by green duster the front seats were donated by revshag the rear wheels were made by Alan Raab and painted with alclad, front rims were partsbox every thing else was OOB i did do some plastic surgery to the rear rollpan somehow those never fit properly so it was assembled and bondo-ed before paint since the engine is onyl running headers i had to cut out the exhaust tips that were molded into the pan which is what the last picture shows all things considered i liked this build nothing too complicated, just a nice model to build that looks good on the shelf on second thought i might have put some more detail in the interior but of well

best way to improve ANY chevelle is by replacing it with a mopar

reminds me a lot of the 69 chevelle im building right now the driveshaft/rear-end/exhaust seems to be the same mold the odd way they raised the suspension is identical aswell

have you considered butterscotch ? not a dead ringer (this is RAF yellow) but very close