Ace-Garageguy

Very nice. I love those little buggers, owned several 1:1s, and still kick myself for letting the last two get away, a yellow '74 and a maroon '80.

Head cheese may or may not be in my luncheon sandwich, depending on whether Schrödinger's cat is a tabby or a Russian Blue.

And that right there is the problem with the interdwerbs. Everybody and his 3-legged dog is an "expert" and they'll all be glad to share the vast body of knowledge they've amassed from 15 minutes of actually working on a car, and what their cousins LeRon and Filbert said. Without a pretty good understanding of any subject going in, it's just about impossible to get anything useful from the technowogical repository of "tribal knowledge".

Hay mang, we don't get paid no extra if we put everythin' in the stinkin' box that's sposed to be in the stinkin' box, so whaddya expeck?

Kurt...what gen Corvette is that under the Daytona skin? It's time to get on the Corvette forums and get some feedback about who makes/rebuilds decent calipers these days. AND...It's hard for me to imagine how an incompetent mechanic could cause caliper leaks...but choo just never know what some of these guys are capable of today. I've seen a whole lot of stripped bleed and line fittings where the "mechanic" blamed the parts, too.

Many brake fluids are hygroscopic (absorb moisture), but that causes problems over time...NOT with brand new calipers. And if 3 out of 4 new calipers are leaking, there's no reason to assume more from the same source will be any better. The aftermarket parts situation is totally out of control.

Not the car's fault. And welcome to the joys of buying parts today. This is my life, day in, day out. For decades I never had comebacks, but I have to jump through all kinds of hoops these days to ensure trash parts don't ruin MY reputation.

Yup, but he's just put NEW calipers on it, and they're already leaking.

"Tires" pronounced "tars" reminds me of "mirrow" for mirror, and "draws" for drawers.

"Yourself" is often articulated as "yo-sef", "yourownself", "yerself", or "yoreself", and I imagine there are myriad other pronunciations.

Straight channel wouldn't do you all that much good, as the rails are tapered in the rear and curved/shaped/tapered in front. One way to fab them (and the way I'd do it) would be to draw them out in profile (after research and suitable scaling), cut two identical outer walls from something like .020" or .030" styrene sheet, and carefully attach the top and bottom flanges (which CAN be made from straight sections of strip stock). Make the crossmembers from suitable channel. As for the rest of the chassis details, just break each part down into basic shapes, and fabrication becomes relatively straightforward. A little tricky, but entirely doable with some patience. There are some threads on here where similar procedures have achieved strikingly fine models.

What you mention doesn't bother me, but the frequency of posters putting questions in the tips-and-tricks section and vice-versa I find annoying. A question is a question, no matter what it's about, as long as it's modeling-related. A tip or a trick is a statement, not a question....and these distinctions would appear to me to be self-evident. Nothing the board management can do to correct this other than constantly police and move topics to the place they logically would go, and who has time for that?

Glad you're OK, no crash, etc., but the longer you're on this planet, the more apparent it will become is that a large part of your existence will be taken up compensating for the lack of consideration, competence, responsibility, or accountability of others...or just plain stupidity. Better to learn this when you're young than to go through life expecting others to always do-the-right-thing. This doesn't mean to become cynical, but to see reality exactly as it is.

Well, that's not good. Hope it all works out well.

You just have to wonder about the first person who thought a lobster looked like it might be tasty.