Fat Brian

Okay, so that explains this kit. Testors must have reissued the Gunze kit and the Italeri kit at different points.

It's a great kit and all in all an easy build, that's why I was surprised when I got to a snag that far into it. I'm going to build at least one more, probably a 289 hipo road race version.

The motor part is fairly easy to replicate because it's just a cylinder about a foot or so long and eight or ten inches around. Here is one with an adapter plate to bolt to a Turbo 350 transmission. For a more modern transaxle style setup here is the drive unit from a Tesla model S. This is how the battery pack is layed out in a Tesla, it sits in the floor to put its weight low in the car. In conversions of gas vehicles into EVs this battery pack is disassembled and put into more of a cube or rectangular shape that can be put into the car to keep the weight distribution close to the same. As you can guess be the picture of the engine there is plenty of extra room under the hood for the battery.

I didn't realize the interior tub fit so poorly until it was already painted but I had to sand the outside edges of the tub down where the door panel meets the window opening to get it to fit. I didn't get it enough the first time leading to the chassis not sitting deep enough in the body and all that fun.

Thanks guys, I got it figured out. I had initially not gotten the interior up into the body far enough so when I put the chassis in the drivers side didn't sit correctly. In fixing that evidently the engine popped up a bit so when I fitted the intake tubes they sat too high and interfered with the hood. All fixed now, this is the first one of these I've done so I didn't want to chase my tail if this was a common thing.

I'm looking at building something similar based on the Scraptona. I bought another Revell 69 Daytona and I have an extra Charger body to pull pieces from. I'm adding an 80s AMT NASCAR chassis and a modern Hemi engine from a Challenger.

I think it might be one of the intake tubes, I'm going to shave the bottom of the air cleaner and see if it helps.

Horde Festival, 1992. There were six bands but I can't remember all of them, I know it was the Spin Doctors, Blues Traveler, Bela Fleck, and Col. Horton Heat. My dad took me because he was a Bela Fleck fan but the Spin Doctors stole the show, I saw them again about two years ago.

I've finished the Revell Thunderbolt and the hood is hitting something on the engine and won't close all the way. Everything is box stock and has fit well up to this point. Has anyone had this issue and know what I need to do to get the hood to close that last 1/16"?

I bought two modern light bars from this seller, they're pretty good. https://www.ebay.com/itm/332654866031

I use carburetor cleaner with Perchloroethylene decanted into an old Tenax bottle.

This version also has a stock hood option.

I don't know about the vent window situation, those were just pics I snagged off the interwebs. I don't have the kit myself, I just saw it when I was researching the Revell 928s to see what was available. I bought the rally version for some of the racey body parts and a stock one for the clear glass.

Those have gotten pricey over the years. I found one out of Japan for $52 but it will take a couple weeks to get here. You could also post in the Wanted section and see if anyone here is willing to part with one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/303520256156

Wow, evidently they weren't popular in real life or kit form.

It's a 928, here is the box art.

Yep, it's not that great.

Could you take aluminum tubing and squish it a bit in a door jamb or something to kind of mash one side of it more than the other?

I'm essential so I'm still working but doing my best to distance and isolate when possible. Because my routine is still the same it hasn't really hit me it has others, it's more like when I normally had to work on a holiday or something. My wife gets stir crazy sometimes, she's usually at home during the day but not going out in the evening wears on her eventually.

Just for informational purposes the Revell 928 is a full detail kit and looks pretty good though I haven't built it. It comes in three variants, a rally version, stock early 928, and a T or targa top version with a non stock nose. Most versions come with tinted glass which also tints the turn signals and headlight lenses so be mindful when you're browsing the 'bay. The tires are split plasticky type in both versions I have.

Hobby Lobby sells very narrow sanding sticks. They have two different grits on each stick and come in a couple different ranges. They're not round but they are thin and flexible.

I've really gotten into watching people play on youtube, the online dnd community is very large.

Definitely post about the updated dash, I'd like to have a couple.

The 4x4 parts from the Desrter kit are only passable at best and there is no option for stockish tires.

I like the jewelers files also for super tight sanding. I've also glued sand paper to a bamboo skewer or around the end of my Xacto handle.