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Mike... Thanks bud. Steve...Thanks for the kind words. Hans.... I can't thank you enough for sharing your story with all of us. It means a lot to me that you wanted to share that. I think that is so cool that you were able to follow your dreams into Drag racing. I grew up around it myself. My dad used to help pit on a Top Alcohol Dragster before I was born til I was 13. I really wished he would of kept doing it. This is where my love for drag racing started. My dream job would be to use my engineering degree in the drag racing field some how but I know its hard to get your foot in the door. I would love to race myself. But I do have to say I love building models of race cars. I am planning down the road to build the dragster that my dad used to pit on. I think it will be a fun build. Dave... thank you Sir! My biggest piece of advice for anyone is just to have patience. Sometimes some things move fast and other times I get hung up or not happy with a part and I end up redoing it 3, 4 or 5 times. It all depends on what it is. Bill....Thank you.... man I can't tell you how bad and how I can't wait to get some actual paint on some parts. I am really close but I need to finish up some small details before I do. Plus the weather has been quite humid here lately from all of the Monsoons we have been getting. But Know I am so anxious to pull out the spray gun and start squirting some paint. Charlie.... thanks buddy.... I sure can't wait to start putting to use your braided line and parts. your parts will add a lot to this build. John.... thanks my Friend.... You know I gotta keep up with you man ..... guys like you, Clay, Bill, Rom,Dave, Joe, Bart.... and I know I am missing others have set that bar high. I just want to be able to build just as good as all of you. Joe.... Thanks man... Well guys I was gonna post some more pics of the rear end and caliper mounting brackets but I am holding off until I fix them. Dave (comp1839) was kind enough to show me how the brackets were supposed to go and I sorta goofed up when I glued them. So I need to fix them and will be back in business. Hopefully I will have some pics to show tomorrow. Thanks again everyone for following along. Its much appreciated.

Clay... You are sure coming along great on this build my friend. Chassis looks great in paint. Very Nice work. Wonder what's in store for us next. Killer job so far!

Oh John!!! this is going to be a very exciting build my friend. So glad to see you doing another 1/16th build. I can't wait to follow along on this one. I know you will knock this out of the park like the rest of your builds.

Scott... those parts look nice man. I see I need to order a few from you now

This build is just stunning John. it turned out beautiful. I love the little amount of red in the interior to break it all up. nice job buddy.

Man this is one killer build. yoy keeo settibg that bar higher and higher. wonder what your next project will be

This is a totally cool build you got going here. I have this same kit and seeing you start on this one makes me want to start the bug I have wanted to build with this kit. I saw a killer bug at a car show a year or two ago that I took pics of and wanyes to make a model of it. Looking forward to seeing more of this build.

Hello All.... got some more work done to the rear brakes. Got the other caliper spacer sanded down and then worked on the caliper mounting brackets. Happy with the turn out on them and they ended up taking me longer than you would think because there isn't much to them but I ended up making them a few times. Here is the Calipers after getting them sanded and spaced to fit the disks: Here is the start of making my caliper mounting brackets. I took the TDR mounting bracket and traced it for the start and then will make to fit for my application: This is the finished outcome of the mounting brackets once I was happy with them: Here I had test fit the brackets to the calipers using scale hardware bolts: Here is a couple of shots of the brackets and calipers set up on the rear end to get a visual of how they were going to look: Here is a shot from above: Now it's time to sit down and prepare the rear end so I can glue the caliper mounting brackets to it as well as a few things I need to fix on the rear end. Stay tuned and I hope to have some more updates for you later tonight. Thanks for looking everyone.

Very Cool and Nice work on this build.

Danno... Thanks Buddy!! Henry... thank you sir. Dave... thank you man, I need to shoot you an email . Just thought of a question that you may be able to answer for me. Joe... thanks bud! Jason.... You know, You are probably correct that they didn't have slotted and drilled rotors back then but since I was never able to find reference pics of this car with the rear tires off, I chose to go with these photo-etch disk brakes. The only really reference pics I have used for this car are the ones off of Prudhomme's Snake racing website. He only ran this car I believe for a couple of races and he didn't like how it handled so he sold it back then. I do know that Prudhomme's bought this car back from who ever last had it and he rebuilt it to what it looks like. If I was able to find pics of the rear rotors I could easily change out what I have since I haven't glued the disks to the hubs yet. I am debating if it would be worth redoing the rear disks since I am trying to make it as accurate as I can from the reference's I have. Mark... thanks man I really appreciate the kind words. thanks again for all of the kind words on this build. Gonna sit down and do some more work here in a few and hope to have some more pics to show soon.

Very Nice Bill.... I really like the Deora body

Dave... hey what size are those Mallory Coils you have or how big is the area they need to fit on. I can take a look thru my decals if you'd like.

Rogelio.... Thanks man. Davewilly.... Thanks for taking the time to go thru all the pages of this build. I am sure it took a while to look. I am planning on having this done for the Desert Scale Classic next year for sure. Hopefully you will be able to make it out since it is a Local show here in Phoenix. Alright Fellas.... I was able to sit down and do a little more work the other day and just haven't had the time to post up some pics of my progress. I started to work on the rear brake set up since I was burnt out of working on the front motor plates. I think I just needed a little time to work on some other part of this build to get me back on focus with this build. Here is where I am at with it so far.... Thanks for looking. Here is the starting point with the rear brake set up. I have had the photo-etch disk's started and purchased TDR's disk brake and calipers set up to use the Calipers for this build: Since the TDR calipers would not fit right over my photo-etch disk's, I needed to cut them and make them just a tad bit wider so they would fit. Once I got the calipers cut in half I added some .060" thick Evergreen Styrene to space them out and then glued them with Plastic-Zap super glue: After letting the super glue dry it was time to sand the pieces down and shape them: Another view of them sanded: Test fitting it over the disk: Here I was making sure there was clearance between the rim and caliper: Here was the second caliper that was done next to the first. The second still needs to be sanded down: Here are both of the calipers sitting on the disks:

Holy Smokes John.... this build is Bad $$ My friend. Love your work man. I have missed so much of this build due to being busy. Keep up the great work.

Tyrone.... this is looking great!! love your work bud!

Brett.. Nice work bud!! that front body support for the frame looks great man

Dave... this build just keeps getting better with each post. Those struts along with the calipers look awesome!! Very Nice work!

Clay.... Every update you keep out doing yourself. I sure know the feeling of adding tabs to the build. I was there with my funny car. I am super impressed with your work and I just love your craftmanship. Keep up the killer work and glad to see you back on this.

Wayne... this is coming along really nice man!! Looking good

Steve.... Awesome Start man. This is gonna be a great project!! I look forward to more.

Thanks Gabriel...felt great getting back on this project.

Thanks Scott... I appreciate it. I promise I will be back on this build and building like crazy again here shortly. also I am going to try abd get more of those harness's drawn up for you this weekend. Thanks for beibg patient with me ob tbem and the photos of the belts

Hey guys thanks for the props on the midplate. I forgot to mention that the reason I made a new one was I didnt make the first one tall enough. there is an oil pressure guage that is mounted on the midplate just above the clutch housing in one of the corners of the midplate. I will be making this oil pressure guage as well. thanks for looking

Alright Fellas... Here are some pics of my progress on the mid plate and the front motor mount brackets that went bad. Here is the front motor brackets after about 4 or 5 days of treating them with the Blacken-it: Here hey are after I sanded the surface treatment off and now they are ready for paint: Here is the start of the mid plate. I had traces the lines of the outter border then over laid my existing mid-plate to transfer drill all of the holes: Here the plate is cut and drilled: Now Adding the side pieces: Now the Top: Here I added the finishing touch with the top edge piece: Here is a better angle at seeing the edge:

Well guys I was able to finish the mid-plate with just the finishing touches on it. I did get pics taken. but am a little tired to edit them. Hopefully I may get a few extra minutes before work to poat them. if not I will after work.