Building Lindburgs Color Me Gone as the Hemi Honker done

[Johnt671]

This is the real car in the second picture. Started the Hemi. I like them because they are so easy to wire. I may even try doing the fuel lines maybe. The chassis is almost done. The last picture is my first look at the stance.

 

Edited December 5, 2017 by Johnt671

[spike morelli]

Hey John671,

I'm diggin' the "Hemi Honker". Not only am I a fan of building models, but I make my living building engines, and I can tell you the Chrysler Hemi, ( both early and late ) are engines that impress me. Here at work, we received a greasy old 426 Hemi pulled out of a running Challenger a customer had. The customer sold the car, and the new owner wanted to know what kind of power it had. We put the engine on our dyno, and it put out more than the factory rated it at , the factory rating was 425 hp, unmolested it bested that figure. Of course, the looks of the thing doesn't hurt either. 

Your build so far looks great. Looking forward to seeing the complete car.

[PARTSMARTY]

I'm a mopar freak so I can't wait to see more !!!

[Slotto]

Great stance! Cant wait to see more!

[dodgefever]

You might want to turn the rocker covers around before you finish the wiring - they're upside down. 

[gtx6970]

One of my favorite kits ( I have maybe 2 dozen of them stashed away in various liverys.

 

Just an fyi. the top moulding of the grille is supposed to be attach the leading edge of the hood.

 

 

Edited September 29, 2017 by gtx6970

[Johnt671]

Thanks for the comments and advise. I'm changing the heads around now. It's one of the few times the glue really stuck for some reason.

I haven't had the chance to work on it much. My wife went in the hospital for surgery last week. I did have to change the stance some because the front was to low looking at the real car pictures. When I reversed the front wheels it was to high, so I started raising the back up some to balance it out. Here's a picture.

 

[Johnt671]

One of my favorite kits ( I have maybe 2 dozen of them stashed away in various liverys.

 

Just an fyi. the top moulding of the grille is supposed to be attach the leading edge of the hood.

 

 

It is a nice kit. I also have the Ramchargers version of it. So far it's going together great. Yours came out nice.

[Johnt671]

Some more work on the Hemi. I corrected the heads. and I'm working on the fuel lines. Now I need to find something to make a fuel block.

 

 

Edited October 2, 2017 by Johnt671

[mredjr]

Great job!!

[Johnt671]

Hey John671,

I'm diggin' the "Hemi Honker". Not only am I a fan of building models, but I make my living building engines, and I can tell you the Chrysler Hemi, ( both early and late ) are engines that impress me. Here at work, we received a greasy old 426 Hemi pulled out of a running Challenger a customer had. The customer sold the car, and the new owner wanted to know what kind of power it had. We put the engine on our dyno, and it put out more than the factory rated it at , the factory rating was 425 hp, unmolested it bested that figure. Of course, the looks of the thing doesn't hurt either. 

Your build so far looks great. Looking forward to seeing the complete car.

I never had one, but saw some a stop lights in My 66 Impala SS 396 four speed and it never worked out well for me.

I started making the fuel block out of a scrap piece. I drilled through a scrap piece of sprue then sanded it somewhat square. I can't get a good picture of the finished piece, but it will show up when I put on the motor. It's a little too big but it's the smallest I could do with my fingers. I also found a pair of seats close to the real cars seat and I'm making mounts to get them a little higher.

[Johnt671]

The Hemi is done and ready to go in. The fuel splitter is way to big. but considering I made it from the piece of sprue in the earlier picture and my fat fingers, it's OK. I should have left the stance alone because by changing the front kingpins the front came up too far. I had to raise the rear up to make it a little better.

 

[gtx6970]

In the future if you want to do a fuel block . Look at the beading isle in hobby lobby or Micheal's Crafts. 

Also take a look at model rail road supplies for hollow small square brass stock.

Edited October 9, 2017 by gtx6970

[Leonidas]

Great build so far. Where'd you get the decals?

[Johnt671]

In the future if you want to do a fuel block . Look at the beading isle in hobby lobby or Micheal's Crafts. 

Also take a look at model rail road supplies for hollow small square brass stock.

Good suggestion. Thanks.

[Johnt671]

Great build so far. Where'd you get the decals?

Thanks. The decals are from SMP Decals

[gtx6970]

 I also found a pair of seats close to the real cars seat and I'm making mounts to get them a little higher.

 

 

Ps, mind if I ask why your going with such a high back seat.

The actual car had a low back seat like the kit has

[Johnt671]

 

 

Ps, mind if I ask why your going with such a high back seat.

The actual car had a low back seat like the kit has

I tried to do some research and found a lot of pictures under Yahoo pictures, but they are a mix of other Dodges I found some of a red stripped down interiors but there is no way to be sure they are the Honker. I did paint a pair of low backed buckets but they were wider than the pictured seats. I think I'll go back to them to keep the build as close as I can the the real one as my abilities allow.

I appreciate your help with this.  Do these look better?

Edited October 10, 2017 by Johnt671

[Johnt671]

After a lousy month I got back to work on this. The interior is done. the motor is in and maybe paint today.

 

[Mike Chernecki]

Looks good, I have been planning to build the Honker for a while, have all the parts, just need the time. Have you seen these pictures, good reference. https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0117-269781/1964-dodge-330-lightweight-hemi-honker/

 

[High octane]

The Lindberg '64 Color Me Gone Dodge kit is a great parts kit as it has a lot of Super Stock parts that can be used on other builds. I have 3 or 4 of them in my stash just for that purpose.

[smhardesty]

Really like what you did to the stance. I've got 3 Color Me Gone kits and 3 other '64 Dodge 330 kits in my stash. My plans are to build them all as either gassers or street muscle.

I'll be following along with this build to pick up some pointers. Looking real good so far.

[10thumbs]

The Lindgerg 64 Dodge kits have several issues.

Ride height is way too low, motor is way too far forward and too far away from firewall, and the front tires are too small for the fenderwells.

John, good you raised it up so the rear rims are completely visible.  The hemi motor makes up for the space to the firewall, still though a tad too far away.

I saw on a Sox and Martin S/S 'Cuda model from a member (I think his name here is Jesse, I'll look it up) and he solved the front tire problem with just adding a big front tire from a 1:24 model, if I remember correctly.  Great tip!  The tire looked absolutely correct on his model.

My opinion, don't worry about the seats, good you chose a model that was not high backed, they came later.  Those you show were from a 64 Plym Sport Fury, or the similar Dodge model from that period.  The seats will be hardly visible when the car is finished.

I'm nuts about this period of factory drag racing, all of them were just cool.  Fords, Mercs, and Mopars were killers.  Love them all.

 

[10thumbs]

Sorry, just one more thing.

Take a flat file and sand the door posts down a bit.  They look to be too wide otherwise.

Michael

[Johnt671]

Thanks for the tips everyone. I'll work on them.