MoparWoman Jamie

1st off, I like to apologize for posting the topic in the wrong area. I wasn't sure if the stuff was visible on the other side and people couldn't see anything and didn't want to say anything or maybe my pc was acting up again was all. So I thought asking would be the thing to do.

I think that would be "Easy Money" .

Nice start man, I love that movie, love part 6 as well. 5 & 6 Film sticks out the most to me for some reason. Just so you know, the Fast Furious chargers had Chevy motors in them the last I knew about and heard. I think the fender chop you did looks very good. But you should have started with a Revell Daytona Charger kit though as that has a 1970 front end fenders on like what you needed. All needed to do was make a grill was all. But you would have needed to redo the rear window area though if you would have went with the 1969 Charger Daytona by revell. I'll be watching this build for sure.

I was just wondering, I know me and my wife and a few others recently had page issues and photo loading issues. I know on my side I can probably see all my stuff as in photos and links. But I was wondering, can you all see the stuff like photos and links I been posting as of recent? I had a follow forum member ask me about what I was talking about as when I went to post my original post I swear I pasted a link in. But that member bought it to my attention that something did not appear in my original post though and I thought it did the first time around but it didn't. So I went back and edited the thread and pasted the link. A "thank you" goes out to that member that bought it to my attention. I also posted in the semi truck area recently with photos, and notice everyone's else threads was getting reply's on also but not mine. Now I'm not complaining by any means here, just wondering if the photos was viewable on the other side for others to see? and not just my side.

I can relate to your thinking man, about how to go about doing something or building something. I been following this build of yours. and you sir have also giving me some good tips and ideas.

I could have sworn I pasted the link in before, but I went back after you bought it to my attention and re-edited it and pasted the link in. Building fire last night.

This just happen about 10 miles away from my location last night. I have friends an so does my wife that lives in that area. I heard it was a bad one last night. http://exploreclarion.com/2014/03/17/breaking-news-crews-battling-blaze-at-sligo-restaurant/ My sister-in-law loose to eat there and just told her mom the other day that when she got paid later this week, she was going there to eat. I had the Mrs get on the phone last night to her mom to let her sister know soon as her mom talks to her.

Here is how wide the one piece will be, one I get all the pieces for the suspension made, I will cut the tube down the middle, that is why the front plates will be spot welded on the out side for and spot welded on top on the inside, but not in the middle though. Feedback on the project is always welcome. I hope you enjoyed this small update.

Here I started cuting the area down the center so that when I make the leaf hanger plates as one piece (have to make 2 of them) at a time, they will slide into this area and the out side area will be spot welded

Okay, here some progress photos. I'm working at making the from leaf hangers Started drilling the stuff out a little

You really sure this is your first model since you was 12 years of age? You sir are doing one very great job so far with the build and it's detail! For the spark plug wire, you do both, drill the holes and insert the wire into a small amount of glue then insert the wire end into the drilled hole. As for the drill bit size go, maybe another member on here can shime in as my number on my drill bit is no longer on there. Also for other tips and tricks maybe you can swing by the Tips and Tricks area of the site on here as there is a lot of good stuff that a person can learn in that area. By the way thanks for serving our country, sir.

I thought of having 11 maybe 12 projects going was bad enough! LOL But to hear some say 50 to 75 projects is just out there.. way out there. I enjoy building cool models or fiddling with them here and there in between build time and coming up with better ways to fab a part up.. or me down right trying to correct everything that a company didn't get right or do right LOL

Okay, heres an update. My head is hurting LOL. I spent the last few days figuring things out and where things went at from the black frame, then using the red frame with the correct parts on it. To seeing how far off the original kit frame was and how far off the parts was with how they really look to the real parts. Let me just say the rad is one piece WITH a cooler built in or scribe into the front but no detail to it at all. The rad fan is basically inside the rad on the original kit part and that is how it was molded! LOL So I will taking and making a new rad, cooler, and fan by them selves. I also had to assemble the E9 motor that my friend got for the project to get the cab location on the metal frame, and also hold the cab with the hood on to see where the grill was located and found out the rad is kissing the grill. So I'm moving things around on the black frame to get the right longness I want for the whole frame before I cut the part out. I also took and started drawing the new hood, leaf, and rad mounts out as well from looking at my ref photos of the real rig my friend loves. But if anyone has a link to I think it is a Mack E9 v8 motor that shows alot of detail.. can you please post a link? I'm not sure how many versions of Mack motors are out there. Also, any feedback towards the project is always welcome too.

You got my attention as I'm a Charger fan. You are doing some very great work so far. Keep the updates coming please.

Man I love your build here! I thought I was doing a crazy build myself, but after coming into this thread.. I don't think I'm crazy anymore.. only insane! LOL I also hear ya on the drill part, I been there quite a few times myself.

Okay, now after I got that all taken care of.. now you all pressly with what I'm about to say you guys will propably say oh no he did not just say that LOL. When my wife was at our local Dollar General store, I stop by the womans area for a minute to check out there nice nail polish.. Well I didn't leave empty handed at all. I got some black nail polish to test out on the frame. The paint is holding up good.. but I will take a wire wheel and strip it back off to weld the leaf mounts on and then cut the whole tube down the middle to get the frame rails that I'm after for on this project. What sucks really is I can't really use my dremel drill bits on on the steel.

The welding clean up on the bottom came out nice Ran into a slight issue, 2mms off to one side.. so alittle adjustment..

Bottom side cleaned up nice. Cleaning the top up now.

Trying to keep things even.. Had to give it more weld

Taking the front end of the frame downwards more.

I hope these images shows up.

Hi you all, well as Spring is almost here, I been working with and tinkering and thinking about ideas for with on the projects. My wife even helped me clean my work area up a lot a month ago. I also been talking with my friend Mark as well about this project. Me and him set down a bout a month ago and had a talk along with my wife. Nothing bad was said at all. Everything wet well and basically talked to him about me going full bore with this project to see just what I could do. I told him I knew what he has in parts and how I could improve some of the stuff so that his parts he got for the project would even look even better in the end. I also showed him his sleeper he bought from a place I guess upstate out of resin that was warp and started to crack while it was in it's box, I told him I could do better with a metal one. The new frame I was working on for his project I notice one side was paper thin (the top area) where as the bottom area was nice and thick. I was going to grind the thin metal off and easy re-weld a thicker piece on but since me and him and my wife was planing on going by our local Trader Horn store I decided to just hold off. Well we went by there a few weeks ago to get a few things. I decided I would go back and look at there cutting wheels for grinders and right next to it they have a metal assortment rack with round stock on, behind that is now a square area with flat steel and square metal tubing. I went looking in there to see what they had. Well I found a perfect square tubing that was the same size as the frame rail one I was working on is. So I grabbed it. It saves me a lot of time with fiddling with the old frame LOL. I already have the new piece done with all the angles that the old one had. At least the frame will be made out of real steel. I'm using the Mack frame I got off off of my friend and Marks original kit frame to get the right long ness from the kit original black one and the correct cross members and things from the red one. Mark likes the new idea of the frame being made out of steel also I might add. I do have a bit done already on this project, I'll get progress photos posted asap, and soon as I get my photo hosting to work right.

Great work there my friend! I love watching the project as it unfolds with each update.

I go to Hobbiest Paradise which is a local hobby shop in Knox PA which is like 3 miles from me all the time.

Your about right, more like a lot of scratch building coming up.