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Sat down for a few tonight and drilled holes on the front blower plate, so not much of an update but a couple of pics..... Here is all of the holes drilled out: Here is the front face plate with the bolts test fitted in:

This is an awesome start John. I was wondering what your next build was going to be. You will knock this out of the park like the rest of your builds. I will be following along. You guys are making me want to post my dog...lol. Both are great looking dogs.

This turned out great and looks nice. Good job on this build

Looking great! Nice work so far

Take a look over in the drag racing section. There are a bunch of 1/16 builds over there you can check out. Btw welcome to the forum. Its a great place with a bunch of great people who are willing to help

Bart... That is flat out Awesome!! Thank you for the video. I may just have to borrow that idea of your. Great work bud.

Brad that sounds great. Would love to see your fiat in person. If you can find some extra printing plate awesone if not no worries. Plus I wanted to talk paint ideas with you

Gabriel.... I will be bringing it for sure to show you guys. And i will bring some of the aftermarket parts as well for it.

Brad... That sounds great that you were able to get your shift covered and will meet you where ever you want at 8:30. I will bring the funny so you can check out what I have done so far. Jim... I wasn't sure if someone had sent you a Pro Mod rear for dimensions or not and Figured since I was sending the others wouldn't be a problem to toss one of those in as well. That is great that Bart had sent you one. I will still be sending Flashpoints Rear Funny car tire and the good year fronts. Will get them out Saturday or monday since I was planning on showing Brad the mock up Saturday morning at our local swap meet here. Do you also by chance have pics of the other rims you have done so far besides whats up on your website. No rush at all since my pro mod build is only in the planning stages, won't be building it for a while. Bart... thats awesome that you had send him one already. Gonna be nice to have rim options for all of these different tires.

Bart... I had no idea those small of a spring would be that much for them. It may be that the process to make them is more complicated than some of their other ones. But glad you found others that would work. I look forward to seeing pics and a video. That is going to be to totally cool. Man I sure wish I could have 5 days off to just work on my builds...lol

Very cool looking car. Nice build!

Brad you are doing a great job on this. It is turning out great. Man some awesome work and detail. Keep up the great work

Thanks Bart on taking pics when you get the spring installed. Shot you a PM back.

Paul you are off to a great start man. That is going to be one killer model. Gonna be mean and nasty.

Bart... thanks for the link, when you get your springs would like to see the placement of the spring in the door if you happen to take a pic by chance. I think I get where its gonna go though. Jim... Those Nitrous and CO2 Tanks look great. I have to ask what do you charge for them? they are very nice. Scott.... Jim does some great work thats for sure.

Bart and Jim.... I have lost a couple of those bolts as you grab them wrong when you pick them up and they make a certain noise as they get shot from the tweasers... . But I will share my secret with these bolts.... I am always using my Optivisor when I am working with them Jim, I appologize that I haven't gotten those tires and rims to you. Things have been a little busy for me lately and was trying to finish up some drawings so I can send it all at once to you. I also have another question for you since I will be sending you the Funny Car tires from this build to get the rim size to fit, want me to send one of the Pro Mod tires from Flashpoint as well so you can get measurements from them for rim widths? I know I will want you to do a set for the Pro Mod Build that I am planning down the road. just no idea at the moment what style of rim I want to go with. Thanks again

Joe... your build is coming along very nice man. Any more updates to share with us?? Can't wait to see more. Bart... I can't wait to see what Terry at flashpoint has in store for the 68 and 63 Vette. I keep tossing around a few ideas for bodies for the pro mod I want to build and still debating on cutting up a body that I have or go with a resin body. although I am undecided at this point.

Dave I sure can't wait to see more progress on this build. Blows me away you building all of these from scratch. Your builds are an inspiration and it makes me want to be and even better builder. Thanks for sharing with all of us.

Very nicely done. This build looks great! Nice work

Thanks Bart for the link..... that is so much easier to go thru and find stuff . Man I see a few things that I would love to just buy right now. I need to break out the pocket book but still need to finish buying some parts for my funny car build. Although it wouldn't hurt to start picking up stuff for a 1/16th scale pro mod build I would like to do one day.

Charlie... Thanks man, You are on to me bud... . I was trying to go with using the actual bolt the thread the holes but I realized that I didn't have a wrench for that size bolt. I have them for a couple other sizes but Scale hardware I believe stopped making the wrenches for the 0.5mm threaded bolts because it was tuff getting the wrench made right for it with as small as it was for the tolerances. John... Thanks buddy. That is awesome that you will be coming out to the arizona show this next year. Althought you may get to see it before then since my goal is to have it done by February and bring it up to the NNL West. It seems like time is running out and I only have 5 months to finish it..lol I am hoping to hear next week that I will have some Photo-Etch parts getting in the mail that I have been waiting on forever. Anyway I will be working hard to finish this and my 1/16 FED and will try to sneak in a curbside pick up too

Niko... It won't be a problem at all to send them to you. It maybe easier to send them to you thru e-mail since I have about 45 pics of the army car and 5 of the Pisano, and a few other random ones I found when I was searching for pics for my Vega.

Not a Problem Brad, I may wait then to send my rims and rear tires back to Jim at Micro Nitro so he can do a set of rims that will fit the Funny Car tires from flash point then so you can see it on a rolling chassis. Plus It gives me time to finish up the drawings on the blower pulleys since I made some slight changes in them that I have designed so I can send the prints along with them to him. I have finished the drawing for the hubs that will be going with my photo-etched disk brakes so that drawing will go along with the rims as well to have Jim make the hubs. I also think it will be easier to have him do them at the same time so I can get the stud holes on the same bolt hole circle pattern for the threaded studs I will be putting in. I originally had sent these parts to a shop we use for work and well they haven't gotten back to me on price and depending on the price I was going to possibly have them run me a good quantity of them since it would have been cheaper and was going to see if anyone would be interested in them but since they have slacked and wasn't sure how much I would have to fork out. Figured that this would be the best option since I am at a point where I am needed some of these parts to be able to move onto scratch building the calipers but waiting for the hubs so I can see the clearance I will be working with between the disk and rim. Anyway sorry to ramble on, I realized that its late and I am pooped and need to get to bed since I need to be up early for work.

I was able to sit down for a few hours and get some more time in. Tonight I decided that I would start working on the Blower and drilling the bolts heads out for the hardware. Seems this drilling is always time consuming... Anyway for the bolts I used Scale hardware. The size of the bolts used to bolt to the manifold was Part # SMHN-08N Simulated 0.85mm Hex Nut w/Stud (Nickel plated brass) and for the back piece of the manifold and front I have used part # THRB-05-B 0.5 UNM Threaded Hex Bolt (Brass). I was too tired to get the front piece drilled out so will probably work on that tomorrow. Here are a few pics of the progress I made tonight. Thanks again for looking..... Started out with getting the holes drilled for the bolts that go to the manifold, This is where I used the Simulated 0.85 Hex Nut w/Stud bolt: Drilling out the back of the manifold: After drilling all of the holes on the blower back plate, I transfer drilled all of the holes: Put all of the bolts (0.5 UNM Threaded Hex Bolt) in place on the back cover: Up-close view of the back of the blower, don't mind some of the pin holes on here. They will get filled in before the blower gets primer:

Brad if you can make it, Let me know and I can bring the funny car with me and you can see how it looks in person if you'd like.