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Shane I can't wait to see these pics. It is gorgeous so far so I can only imagine what its going to look like.

Bart... Thanks buddy. Yeah its all good. Been thinking abou this at work today and it doesn't seem like it will be a real tuff fix, its more so just some elbow grease. I have to blame myself for not paying attention to this small detail sooner like when I was doing all of the support tube. . This body is the original styrene plastic body. I think I am going to go remove the rear end and then mock it up where I want it to be and will take a few pics to show where it is right now and what the goal is. Give me a few and will get some pics up

Wayne... Very nice. that fuel tank in the trunk look great! Where did those rear tires come from. they are very nice looking.

Totally cool project. This is gonna be neat. Great work so far

Looking great John! As always nice work.

You are doing one heck of a job on this. It is turning out great. Nice progress so far

Very nice. I may want one in my collection too.

Brad that is true too. Hmm I will have to take a look at that. Glad you pointed that out. Well the one thing is that I still need to fabricate the motor mounts so I could adjust the height there for the headers if need be. In the pick i have the engine sitting.on a block holding it up close to the area it should sit.

Niko... Looking good man. I am going to be redoing the side tins on my funny car this weekend or at lease get started on them and will post pics how I do it. My plan was to take some 3x5 note cards and make templates and then either do them from thin metal or plastic i have an idea that I want to try with metal to get some raised ares looking like it was rolled with a bead roller.

Brad... I wasnt planing on doing anything until I showed you guys. Dwayne.... I really appreciate your opinion in this. Thank you, I have to agree with you on the whole should of done this down the road. I am afraid thats what I would be doing if i dont fix it now. And thinking of it it really isnt that big of a fix, it will just take a few hours to do. Learning now how off the ride height was in this kit, I will be making sure and fixing the ride heights from the get go on these builds in the future. You would of thought that the engineers that designed this kit would have done a little better job with the ride height. Thanks again

Brad that is awesome to hear about the front axle. I cant wait to see this in person tomorrow.

Niko thanks for the compliment. One of my pieces of advice would be to have patience and dont rush things. Guess thats two lol. I took a couple of side shots that I will have to post later. The rear stance isnt bad but think its just a smidge higher than i'd like is all. At least now i know what to do on any future funny car builds lol

Chuck... That is just awesome. Man that paint and decal work look great!!

Brad exactly..... It would be a great deal of work and those frame sub-assemblies that I built would have to be redone as well. It would of been much easier to do if I would have caught this earlier on but I think at the time I didn't think about trying to mock it up with the body to get a feel for the body height. Part of me says it's too much work to redo and the other part says to redo it since I already have all of this time into it. Another option is I could Pull out another frame and redo it all but that would really involve doing alot more work. I could always use this frame for my Fiat build....and start over . Everyone else I would like to hear your opinions on this. Brett... Thanks man, I checked out the rest of the pics and some of the pics look like it has a higher ride height from the rim to the wheel well. So maybe what I have isn't too bad. I appreciated the pics

Brad I would need to basically move the rear end up. as you saw the body in the pic the body was sitting on the roll cage. the tires need to be tucked up in the body a little more. Here are a few images I just edited to kind of show whats going on. I would have to modify the brackets that the rear end is mounted too by moving them up. I was trying to represent the bracket in the blue and circled in red is the area needed to be modified. looks like it could be adjusted about 1/4" up.. If I did decided to modify the rear end mount I would have to redo what is circled in red here: As well as modifying the top support tube braces I put in I would have to modify the bottom as well. The only problem I would possibly see is the angle of the driveshaft: Here is a pic of the actual car and the stance of it, not sure if this was the stance how it was raced or if they modified it since they rebuild it for display:

They did for a bit and it wasn't as good as the Tempe store. It got sold off to someone and its called KC Hobbies now and is mostly RC stuff. Very little plasics there. I go into the Tempe one quite a bit to get supplies and my Model Car magazine. I need to mail my subscription in for it already Oh yeah and you won't be able to miss me... I will be the short Bald guy....

Brad, I some how missed this. You won't be able to miss my yellow xb.... :lol:

So I sat down tonight wanting to do some building didn't get very far but decided to mock it up and take a few pics to get an idea what it will look like. Here are a couple of teaser pics: Kind of not sure if I am digging the stance with the body, I am feeling that the back needs to be lowered down a little bit. Debating if I should lower the back end or not but that would require me to redo the are of the rear end and all of the scratch building I did there.... hmmm

Gabriel....I am definitely taking my time with this one. Don't want to rush it but I am anxious to get it together though...lol But you are right that quality work takes time

Derrick... Thanks man it sure looks great!! can't wait to see what you have in store next

Johnathan... what kits did you use for these?? I have been wanting to build one of Jeff Gordon's new cars since he is my favorite driver

I may have to hit up this other hobby shop you guys are talking about. the only one I really go to is Hobby Depot in Tempe since Its that only really good one near Gilbert

Terry... Really like your sanding jig. That is a great tool..may have to make one of them myself. Thanks for sharing.

Derrick... you are doing an outstanding job on this. Wow that thing just looks awesome. Getting some color on the frame sure makes it pop. I really like the color of the chassis. What did you end up spraying it with if you don't mine me asking? engine is off to a great start too. man this build is just awesome!

Charlie.... thanks bud... you are right that I am glad that I have all of the holes drilled in the blower. I think I am almost to the point where I can start gluing some of the engine parts and maybe get some primer on it. I know with the blower that I am going to need to fill a few pin holes gonna try to do the ones that I can with no primer but think I am gonna need to hit it with a light coat to see the rest. I will see what I can possibly get done tonight. Brad... Thanks buddy. Feels like I making those baby steps and its coming together little by little. I am looking for to saturday as well. I will be mocking it all up and having the radius rods and everything bolted in place that I can and will be a rolling chassis. I still need to make the motor mounts for the engine block and chassis where it will bolt too, not sure if I will have that done by saturday or not but I have to admit that I am anxious to have that block sitting in the chassis. I think that is one of the things I will be trying to get done over the weekend.