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I have one of the rooms in my house that is set up as a hobby room with a workbench in there but it seems that I have been building at my kitchen table more the past few years due to having the tv in my family room that I will watch while building. I probably would get more accomplished if I did my work in the hobby room ... There would be less distractions for sure...lol

Hey everyone.... I want to thank each an everyone of you for the kind comments and for following along on this build.it is much appreciated.its a great feeling to have this one completed on the shelf. Now I can focus on the funny car

Johnny Boy... that is some nice working you got going on brother. Love the progress you are making.

Dave... thank you very much for rhe kind and encouraging words. You are welcome for sharing the troubles i have had or caused upon myself on this build. I just have wantes everyone to see how I have done things. I know not everything is 100% right or correct the way I have done it. I know the fix I am thinking of for the bottom mounts wont be thw best way but If I didnt have the chassis painted already I would have moved the mounting tabs. SO i will be altering the Mid Plate in that area a tad...lol

Scott... this is some mighty fine work you are doing. Those shocks look killer my friend. Keep up the great work on this.

I have been wondering the same thing if a '32 3 or 5 window was every made in 1/16th scale. All I can remember is '34s and then I have seen some '31s'

Scott.... Thank you very much. You are right about it seems when we make assumptions that something will fit and it doesn't. I usually try and make all of those fit checks during my fab process but this one somehow got away from me. I need to throw the tranny in the mix just to double check fitment with it now...lol Rom... Thanks buddy....It feels good to be back at this one and hopefully some great progress will be made on this bad boy. John... Thanks brother. I appreciate the kind words and support on this one. Ray... Thank you very much. Soon I will hope to have primer on that body for ya Steve... Thank you. For the most part it is fixed but but I still have some minor work that needs to be done to the Mid-plate for me to be happy with it pus the fitment between the Mid-plate and Body Tin work needs to be re-worked too. Hi Bill.... It's great to see you on here again, we have missed your presence. Thank you for the kind words and support on this one. Dave.... Thanks my friend. It means a lot when I get your stamp of approval on things. You know I don't want to miss any of the little details...lol I am going to take your advice and throw the clutch can and tranny in so I can check fitment issues. Hopefully I will get some pics of it up later today. Thanks for your encouragement.

Dave.... beautuful work my friend I love seeing you get more progress done on this one. I think you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Really looking forward to yoir next update.

Mike.... thank you and sounds good. Brad.... Thank you my friend. I didnt do much other than bolting the mid-playe to the block properly and I also sanded the mid-plate down around the spot that it butts up to the tabs. I still have little more rework with it but am happy its turning out good other than it seems its really time consuming because i want to make it correct and fit right so I dont have any issues when it comes to tue final assembly. Pat.... thank you very much Paul.... you are right that it is still a little off on the bottom tabs.I thinj when I originally mounted the bittom tabs that I didnt have the mid plate bolted to the block solid and things moved when I glued them in place. I rook your advice last night and bolted the mid plate to the block so that it was secure to the block and went from there test fitting and checking the fitment. So now when youlook st it from the top it doesnt look like it is off. The bittom side is a little different the tabs are off a tad and I have an idea i may try or as you said makde a small spacer piece for it. I van remember how much my bottom chassis tin covers. If i am right i made it to go up to the mid plate. Things should work out pretty good I am thinking. Danno... i was thinking more like a 4 Banger....

My guess was Real

Here is a shot of the bolts mounting the front of the engine to the chassis Here is how the mid-plate sits now although I need to so a little work to the back of the engine but it looks much better than before: Here is a bottom view and you can see where a little of my issue is. I will end up sanding the back of the block down in hopes of making the plate perpendicular to the block:

I sat at the bench for a while tonight on how I was going to fit this issue I was having with the motor and mid-plate. Here are a few pics of what I did.... I had started out by removing the old simulated bolts and adding .8mm threaded bolts from Scale Hardware: Next I bolted the midplate up: Here is a shot of the front motor mount plates bolted in place:

Kristopher... Thank you for the kind words. Paul... Thank you. I am pretty sure that you are correct that back in the day they probably made it work however the needed too. I did what you said about bolting the mid plate to the block to check things from there.

Nice work Brother!!! Looks like this is off to a great start. Now don't forget about the Pizza Boxes . Looking forward to more. Put those minions to work....hahaha

Henry.... you are off to a great start here. This is going to be a nice build. Looking forward to seeing more. What kind of engine you gonna do for this. Shaun... you can also go straight to shapeways and search for TDR Innovations and their stuff should come up as well bit if you fo to TDRs page like henry mention it will take you to shapeways.

Paul... I actually measured the block this morning and the block seems fairly straight maybe off by a 1/64 or so. I did it real quick with my metal ruler on the 1/32 markings. I will double check it again when I get home frim work this afternoon. After that I measured the tabs on the top chassis tube and all 4 of those seem pretty consistant from the front of the chassis, as well as the distace between the tabs. Then I looked at the tabs that mount on the lower portion of the chassis for the mid-plate and that looks where maybe its a tad off. Tonight when I get home from work I am going to mount the mid plate to the opposite side of the tabs to see what it does and how it looks. Currently the front motor mounts mount to those front tabs towards the front of the car and the mid plate mount to the aft of the back mounting tabs. I don't know if there is a right or wrong way for the tabs on ther rear to be in front or behind the mid plate. I did change the way my front motor mounts bold to the front of the block. Before i was using simulated hardware where the bolt just pushed in (and would be glued it on final mock up) which made those front mounts not quite so stiff. I drilled them out a tad and threaded them with scale hardwares .8mm threaded bolts. After doing that it made the front mounts much stronger. So with getting that set up first I can now make my way to the back of the block to fix the issue and gap there. It seems if I just flip the mid plate to the other side of the tabs that it would fix that gap. It is definitely a learning lesson that I will use for my next build and the type of hardware i will start out with to get everything lined up properly. Sorry to be a little bit of a wind bag and talk your ear off on this..was just trying to explain the best I could so people would hopefully understand what I was talking about.

This is one cool build and it turned out nice. I really want to pick up one do these VW buses to build

John... I am super excited to see both of these builds come together. They both say.....this is a John Teresi build for sure. I know you will do them justice. I am proud of you brother for venturing out and building two builds at once. You are starting to be like your little brother building a few at once... . I can't get over how wild that bike is....lol I hope those TDR parts get to your place soon

Dave... Yeah little bit of a bummer but I already knew I was going be reworking the Mid-Plate anyway. I am going to look at a couple other options as to reworking it. I will unbolt it in a few and check the tabs and measure the distance. I am also debating on maybe switching out the simulated bolts on the front motor mounts which are a little smaller size and maybe using a .8mm threaded bolt to see if that will help keep the fronts straight and sturdy because what I have now is somewhat loose and the fronts can shift just a little bit. Joe... yeah good thing I decided to really check it out. well I knew it was kind of off because before when I have mocked up the tranny and had it all in the chassis I had to work it a little (not much to make the front plates sit where they were supposed to. I will get it correct. I did think about adding to the back of the block but was trying to avoid repainting the block...hahaha But I will do what I have too. maybe I can just blend that area in. Dave. you are so correct about that. I could of had a brain fart when I originally set things up and I didn't catch it then. All I know is for all of my fuyure builds I know a few areas I will make sure and focus on so this doesn't happen again....haha liek getting the rear end, tranny, driveshaft and engine lines up. mainly the engine and rearend lined up with a straight rod or tube how they do it on the real ones. the way I look at it, I have learned so many little things from this build that I will do things different on another one. Steve... You know that is a great idea. I will be honest I didn't think of that. I will have to mount it to the other side and see if it would work that way. It would make the gap less and maybe I could sand a little off the the back of the block on the one side if needed but I have a funny feeling either way I will need to add a shim piece to make it right but the time to do it is now to get it correct.

Thank you all for the kind comments and for following along on this build. I can now call it completed as it is finished. Here is a shot of it and you find the rest of the finished shots over in the Under Glass section. I have provided a link below. Thank you. UNDER GLASS PICS: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=88413

Thank you for looking....

Hello All.... Many of you may or may not know about the 1/16th Scale Funny Car I have been building for quite a while. Well I needed a small little break from it and I decided to Pull out this 1/16th Scale Font Engine Dragster that I had started 17 years ago and painted it 3 years ago right before I started my 1/16th Funny Car. Keep in mind that the Chassis was painted way back then all of the engine detail was done back then too. All I really had to do was assemble the rest of the car and call it good. in the past few weeks I was determined to get it done for a show this past weekend and some of the things to finish were..... build the Photo -Etch wire wheel set, get the rear tired mounted and polished, Make the parachute, Color Sand and Polish the body out as well as I re-did the radius rods on the front end because I wasn't happy with how they kit one looked on it because they were all bowed out. I am proud of this build because I haven't finished a model in 3 years due to focusing on my funny car. Now I know this model isn't perfect by any means but happy with it. Anyway here are some pics of it to share with you...... If you would like to see the progress of the build and what it started out over 3 years ago you can click this link: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27986&st=0&p=267725

Thank you Danno..... You know it will get done this year. I am gonna be busting my butt on this one for the next few months

I am not sure How I got the engine to be off from the mid-plate but I may of over looked something with my original mock-ups way back when I started on the mounting of the engine. SO here you can see the light and the gap between the mid plate and the motor: Looking straight down on the engine, everything seems to look good as far as the engine being square to the chassis: Another view with light to see the gap a little better: Here is a side view where the engine looks like there is no issues with how its sitting and how everything is straight: Then I checked it with the body on to make sure everything cleared ok, and it was a perfect fit. The blower and injector hat sit perfect in the center of the body:

Now that I have wrapped up my FED project. It is time to get back to work and boggie on this one. I got some bench time last night and tried to remember where I left of and decided that it is best for me to go ahead and fix the issues with my motor mid-plate and the body tin work that will sit on it when the body is down. A lot of my mock ups have been with the mid-plate just sitting in the chassis and not really bolting it up. So I decided to mock it up with the mounting hardware. I still have some work on the mid plate tonight but wanted to show what all I did yesterday. So I started with sanding the sides of the mid-plate down because I previously was having a little bit of a fitment issue where it wouldn't slid in real easy and I knew I needed to trim the edges down a tad. Its all bolted in with Scale Hardware's .8mm threaded bolts: Different Angle: Was trying to get a close up of the bolt: Side view of upper mount: Opposite side, and here is where some little troubles come into play. Once I bolted the front motor plates up and got the mid plate bolted to the frame and started to mount the motor to the mid-plate. well I have a small issue where I am going to have to either add material to the engine block or add some material to the mid-plate. I am thinking adding a small spacer to the mid-plate will be easier: More pics to come......