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Curt... Nice job on this one Buddy. Man it turned out Sharp!! Not sure how I didn't see this until now.

Mark... Nice job on the body. That thing looks great!

Ummm... I like the one Ace posted the best...

Joe... Thanks man. I think this rear window should turn out pretty good. You know I never thought of having it laser cut. I have already talked to my machinist at work and they are going to machine the piece for me off one of the CNC machines at work. I have already given them the parasolid model that they will program the tool path from off the SolidWorks 3D model i made for it. I am going to have them cut me a few of them out of .010" thick Brass and some .016" thick Aluminum. once done I will figure which looks best and then use that one on the car. Brian... Thank you very much. I never though about that but you are probably right that there are real race cars that don't get taken care of like they should...lol

Nice Job Bernard!! Does replicas and minatures make those wheels in 1/16th scale??

Danno... I think you are refering to umm...beer... and playing with wood Dave... thanks man... yes you need to jump onto playing on that program.

Joe... congrats on the house.... very excited for you. Now it's time to go buy an air brush and air compressor ?

Brad... that is some mighty fine work on the radiator shell. Looks like you are becoming an Alclad master like our big brother Johnny Alcad. I am also digging the moon tank and straps, it looks great.I am looking forward to your next update.

Danno... You know you can still carve parts out of soap if you would like . Thank you Very much. I just hope these parts will turn out ok when they are made. Art... Thank you my friend. It's because of people like you and many of the other talented builders here that have helped me want to step my game up and build better than ever had before.

Hakan... Jenna Haddock is driving a former Antron Brown Dragster that has the Canopy as well.

Tim... Thank you very much. I gotta say its my pleasure being able to share this build with everyone. Yeah the back window I had to figure out what the best way to create it would be. I know I could of made it by hand but the problem is that I don't think I could of gotten all of the louvers/slots consistant. I am planning on having 1 or 2 3D printed but I have already talked to the guys in my tooling fab department at work who machine my projects at work for me to see if they could machine this for me. One of the guys thinks they can do it no problem. So I will give them the parasolid file and they will program the paths. if I am lucky enough I might be able to have it by saturday. Actually I would like to go in on a sturday when they are working and have them do it then so I can take pics of it on the machine while its getting fabbed. Dave.... I can't thank you enough for all of your help that you have provided me behind the scenes on this. You have always been there to answer questions anytime I have asked, I truly appreciate it. I still have a long ways to catch up to guys like you, Tim and Clay who are machining your own parts. I would like to get there one day where I can fab my own parts on a mill. It will not be a problem to get these linkages done in 1/8th Scale as I drew them up 1:1 first and then scaled it down in solid works. I will just copy the file and re-scale it. I have another linkage I will do here after I go walk my dog since he has been waiting patiently for me to take him on his walk this morning.

Steve.... Thank you very much. Its been a blast working on this. Alright Fellas.... well I got some bench time.....well actually I should say some computer time. I decided to sit down and do some design work in SolidWorks and get a couple more parts drawn up. I started with the back window and then decided to start on the blower linkages. I first need to give Dave aka Comp1839 here a big thank you. I talked to him today and he was able to help me out with the dimensions on the Blower linkage. I still have another to design up. The linkages will be 3D printed and I will probably also 3D print a back window or two but I will also have one or two machined as well. Actually still thinking which would be better to do brass or aluminum. Anyway Here are some pics..... Here is the back window in Solidworks. this is a 3D image and my plan is to make this out of .016" Brass or .016" Aluminum: So Here is part of the sketch in solidworks. What I did was I inserted a picture of the back window that I took. Scaled the picture in solidworks and then drew the window to the size I needed: Here is another image of it in Solidworks: After I was done drawing it up. I had printed it out 1:1 and cut it out to sorta do a dry fit to check if the size I drew it at would be ok and work for me: After I was done with the back window, I moved onto the blower linkage. which I did the same process. I took a picture that I took of the Sidewinder Motorcycle that John Teresi built at the Desert Scale Classic. The owner of the real bike brought it down and had it on display and I took a bunch of pics of it and of the engine for the details that I could use as reference. I did the same as I mentioned above by scaling the picture and the used it as a template to draw the part:

Tyrone.... Looking great buddy. Nice work on the Headers. This car is looking great.

Tim... That there is Perfection my Friend!!! Wow!!! what can I say but you keep stepping that bar up. Every Update this build gets better.

Well I know the pics I am about to show are a little different than what you are showing but I took these shots of this Dragster that was at a Big Boys and There Toys event in Scottsdale Arizona back in 2007. Not sure if they are a help but I will also post the link of all 29 pics of this dragster LINK: http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Mooneyzs/library/Plastic%20Models/Drag%20Racing%20Reference/Top%20Fuel%20Dragster?sort=3&page=1

Hey Pat... I got to thinking... did you primer and block out the body before you added the Bare Metal Foil??

Joe.... thats great news... fingers crossed for you. Soon you will be able to set up your airbush and be a painting fool like the rest of us. Tyrone... LMAO... that there is funny. Tom... no I didnt do anything to the clear after I shot it. I dont see why you couldn't coolor sand and polish it. Although you would want to wipe it dow. With wax and grease remover before you decided to spray alclad on it. Michael... thank you very much. It's really not that hard. Just a little prep n paint work. And well a little patience too ...lol Dave... thank you.. I am hoping with rhe next item I am working on will be pretty impressive as well... lol we shall see though because I am going to need a lot of paitience for the next task at hand.

Oh Brad.... Where's those pics....

Tom... the Blower is painted with alclads polished aluminum and then I cleared it their Aqua Gloss which looks like a milky clear. I also used House of Kolor black base and cleared it with urethane clear for the base. I found that using the HOK black base and urethane clears I get a better finish than using alclads black base. But that is just my experience Joe... thank you. Hey any news on the house front for you?? Dave... thank you. I am still cracking up at that pic. Tim... thank you very much. I can't tell you how important the prep work is. The better its prepped the better the results. You are best off to primer and block it out with 1000 grit or finer paper. The smoother the base the better the finish. Ray... thank you very much

Art... any updates... we are waiting... lol

Lmao... John and Brad... there is enough of me to go around. Maybe this needs to be settled serbian style... lmao. John I csnt stop laughing at the pic. Danno... I think you are right.

Tim... what can I say but that is dang gorgeous and has to be ine of the best wheelie bars ever done. I see you put the Big A$$ penny you machined next to the real car again... haha Keepnup the gteat work and I cant wait to see what you will work on next. Brad... I am seriously thinking about getting a platting kit myself as well.

Mark... nice work on the paint. It looks great. I like the fact that you custom mixed the color for it.

Brent... Welcome.. and thank you for taking the time to go thru all of the pages on this build. I know there is alot to go thru...lol. I can't tell you how much I want to see this finished as well. It's getting closer but I am still a ways away.

Tyrone... it's great to see you back on this one. Its looking killer.