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Actually I haven't seen them, but needs to check them out. I'll go with scratchbuilt turbos on this one anyway, because the shipping for those turbos would be too expensive for this point. I started scratchbuilding the intercooler. It's not finished yet, but the basic shape is there. It's built from different kind of sheet styrenes. But as I said, it's not done yet, tomorrow I'm planning to get it done and mocked up. I don't know what modifications need to be done, I'm planning to install it to the interior, as in one Finnish Super Pro Street Drag Car. I also fabricated a Flip Nose. This is not finished either, but getting there. I have to do little fine tuning so I can get the front end fit into body shapes better. But for now, it's functional and removable, too. Here are some pics, thanks for lookin'.

Just came across this today: Does anyone know who is the builder, or what is used to build it?

WOW!!!!! That chassis looks fant... exc...... awe.... amaz.... Äh, whatever, can't find word that is good enough. I'm truly amazed by the work you did, but then I realized that the suspension is WORKING! Wow, that is piece of art you got there, it has to be 1:1 scale.

Looks good! This is very interesting thread, I will keep a close eye for this one. The kit is absolutely on my "Wanted" list, needs to wait so I get some money, though. And I do need at least two of these, other one would be Stock and other one NASCAR, oh actually three, one needs to be Custom too, oh no, four, one has to be a Gasser.... Oh, whatever, it looks like great kit.

It's my first build, built back in 2002 when I was six years old. AMT '60 Ford Starliner, brush painted and box stock build, of course.

Added you to the list! Thanx for joining in. Mopar engine in a Chevy? Just kidding, it looks great! I'll be watching this one, it will look amazing when finished, as your builds always do. Good luck with the exhaust pipe, I've done that few times on Monogram '57 or '56 Chevy kits, and it's really tricky.

Thanx, Tyrone, Bill and Ted! I managed to make little upgrades for the throttle body, and it looks much better now. I also started thinking about where I should install the turbos, first one is mocked up, I made a simple bracket for it which will stay there, but I will do some more metal tubings and make it look more realistic than it looks now. Now it's just installed for mock ups and it's possible to make all of the turbo pipins etc. Few pics:

At least it's not beautiful ! Needs to try find out, what it really is, but looks like old Locomotive as Greg alredy said.

Is that trailer built from somekind of model kit, or is it just Evergreen? Very nice builds, especially the paint job on the Van looks nicely done.

Both are still WIP, but both should be finished this year. '55: '57:

This is very beautiful build, and I'm drooling again by this build. That paint job is amazing, as always in your builds. The overall clean look is beautiful too.

Ari Salo's Camaro: Teemu Kuikka's Volvo Amazon with 4 cylinder (?) engine and turbocharger: And Ari Remahl's Buick Grand National with Buick V6 and Turbo. You can see the index on the window. That's it for now, more coming later and then I will introduce next car category: SPET (Super Pro ET). There are many wild machines, stay tuned. All of those pictures are taken in Alastaro.

Yep, Drag Racing is really great Motorsport! I'd love to get on NHRA Drag Racing even on some day, too. Dave Smith: Yes, these are the only two that we have. We have some airports where are few races, but they are mostly West Coast StreetCup (smaller Drag Racing series on the west coast, which has four races on two airports). One Finnish Championchip Drag Race event is driven in airport too, but it's the only one. This year there were two races at Motopark, and three in Alastaro including the European Championchip Drag Racing event (Nitro Nationals). George: That's why I thought I would post this one. Heh. I'm going to tell few words about first car category: Sportsman & Pro ET (SET & PET) This is a group where you can drive almost everything between 9.00 and 19.99 seconds. So it's like racing with little lower budget. They drive bracket, qualification is done by Reaction Times and eliminator is normal bracket racing. Even if it might be group where you can drive with lower budget, it's not easy one to win. There are very good racers and cars there. This is good category for jumping to faster cars. Few examples of cars that drive SET & PET. Hannu Hellman's Chevy Corvette (This is a Street Legal car, if I remember correctly, but not very slow one.). Harri Kankare's Ford Mustang (you can also see the nose of Nissan Skyline, but can't remember the driver of it.) Mustangs best time is something like 11,8. Ted Helin's '66 Opel Rekord Gasser, my favorite from this group. Goes about 10,6 times. Ken Nyman's Chevelle. If I remember correctly, this goes 9 second times. Ville Lauhasmaa's Plymouth Savoy.

Nope, it's not a sauna. Sauna is so small building that it can't be seen in this picture, but it's close to that building, which is actually a place where you can wash cars, if I remember correctly... I try to find better picture of it, I've seen one, but can't remember where.

As some of you guys might have seen, I live here in the Northern Europe. Maybe someone thinks that there is no Drag Racing in Finland, but I'm glad to say that there is. We have FHRA (Finnish Hot Rodding Association) which puts together Drag Racing Finnish Championchip series year after year. Then we have smaller events, like West Coast Street Cup which is driven on airports... On the west coast! There are pretty many Drag Racing car categories, but of course not as much as you have there. We have two real Drag Strips, first one, Motopark was built in 1987 if I remember correctly: And then we have another Drag Strip, I can't remember when it was built, but I guess it was on the early 90's. On 2012 Drag Racing season, which is now over, we had six Finnish Championchip Drag Racing events, and one of them was also European Championchip Drag Racing events. We had Pro Stocks, Pro Mods, Top Fuels, etc. racing there, as of course Finnish Championchip car categories too. On this thread I will tell you about Drag Racing in Finland, and tell about the car categories, we drive here, and show examples of Finnish Drag Cars. It is more popular in here, than you have thought I guess.

Looking Great, Bill! This really is one of the best builds on this forum. That heat staining looks very realistic to me, it's just perfect. Good to hear that you have correct firing order, otherwise it wouldn't work so nicely when you get everything mounted and all liquids like water and oils inside the engine. :lol:

Thin Stripe white walls, yes! I would get one set of them right away. 60's and 70's Dragster tires, even bigger Yes! There can never be too many Drag Slicks. Also I'd like to see high profile tires with Good Year or Firestone letters, like normal 15" tires that came straight from the factory. Like these:

Turned out very nice, I don't see a reason to be disapointed. It looks very good to my eye, nice paint and like those colors too.

I've been taking a little break from my Chrysler build, but I'm getting back to it later this week, when I don't have exams in the school anymore. Body is almost ready for primered and interior work needs to be started. Chassis is waiting for primering, too. So it's not forgotten and I will try to finish it by the deadline.

Lookin' good! The photoetch grille (and other photo etched parts too) is great "bonus". What kit is this? Monogram?

Well that's different and I like it. Very nice job with the paint, I can see no mistakes on it. Are you going to clearcoat or polish it, to me it would look even better like that, but of course it's very nice as it is now. I can't wait to see more.

Heh, thanks Corey! I've built bit over 50 models now, and only the models that are completed in one or two - or maybe three years time period, are something that I'm happy about. Those older ones (maybe about 20 builds) are not too great quality, which is of course normal. This hobby is really great and I don't have problems that "There's nothing to do". Oh and have to say, that there are many talented young builders here in Finland, better than me. Maybe somebody thought that there's no Model Building in Finland, but that's not true.

Cool GTO, the paint is oustanding! Your builds are always very nice to see, well detailed and they look good. This one belongs to that category, too.

Looks like Miss Deal Chassis can be converted to fit inside many cars! I'm currently building '59 Simca Vedette Gasser with that Miss Deal studebaker chassis. You did very nice job with this one, one of the best builds that I've seen from that Rat Packer Nova. Many times What If style builds are not my thing, but this is really nice.

Thanks guys! That saw is very handy-worth buying if you see one. Little update, I reworked a bit of that intake, it looks much better and fits nicely to the engine. I also built new throttle body from styrene. This is the second try, first one turned out horrible. This is not so great either, I might redo it but let's see how it looks when painted. Just wanted to post little update, so you can see that I'm building instead of eating chocolate. ' Also managed to get the camera working again-or at least I can take few pics with it, zoom isn't working and other little things, but mainly it works Okay...