Maverick Pro Stock/Match Racer

[absmiami]

Have you sent any pix to Joe Martin at Sherline ?  Have you seen the Craftsman Museum on line link that they maintain ??

[AmericanMuscleFan]

WOW Tim!  I remember your comment (Now THAT'S a radiator.) when I made the radiator for my D100 pickup, I can certainly express the same for yours!  The sharpness of your cuts and details are absolutely impressive!

It's been a long time since I caught up with your updates and I must admit that you haven't lost any of your magic, your precision inspires me! 👌

[Ian McLaren]

I can only echo what everyone else has said reicently regarding the rad and it's construction and perhaps Francis said it best.  Well Done!

[Straightliner59]

On 9/29/2024 at 8:29 AM, Codi said:

Daniel.....the petcock....I found a thin piece of photo etch in my parts bin that was part of a leaf spring kit or something like that. It had a fold line down the middle of it....I drilled a hole in the center of the fold line....placed a piece of stainless steel tube in it and then folded it slightly to form a V.....put a small drop of loctite thin glue on either side and used my photo etch pliers to squeeze each end as tight as I could up to the the tubing in the center.  After I was certain the glue had dried i used my hand piece that spins up to 25k rpm with a jewelers .27mm cutoff disc to carefully shape it to the size desired and cut it off the steel tube. Was simple to do just took me some creativity to find something & method to make it.  That's one of  reasons I like to scratch-build  though. 

I appreciate the explanation, and apologize for not seeing this, sooner! I agree, that's definitely one of my favorite reasons for scratchbuilding. Plus, fabrication is more fun that cleaning up mold lines, etc. Then, there's "Why would I want to fix other people's FUs, when I can do it all by myself?!"😂

[Codi]

To one and all, a belated but heartfelt "Merry Christmas"!    Cheers, Tim

[GoatGuy]

Tim, absolutely stunning work on the radiator!! I love seeing your updates and learning from you. 
Thank you very much for the help you’ve given me with my builds!!! I look forward to seeing more of your work, as we all do.

Happy New Year!!

[Codi]

     Thank you Dave and not just for the comments.....woke up this morning and took my daughter to that drag car show you told me about the other day in Lebanon on a whim.  It was a solid show BUT the big deal for me was walking in and seeing the Pro Stock Mustang II of Scott Schafiroff.  I've been doing my chassis drawings for the Mav based upon a 75' Hardy twin rail, all tube chassis which THIS particular car has... I have no drawings or blueprints so I was going by photos that I found on the web and from period magazines. 

     So I'm on my back taking pics of the bottom of the car to get whatever I could and when I'm done who is standing there but the man that owns the car........well, he must have been shocked when I told him I've been looking for HIM for a long time.  We talked for about 10 minutes and I showed him what I'm working on and he kindly said, come down to my shop and I'll take the clip off and put her up on the lift for ya'.   I jumped at it to say the least.  My drawings were off a little bit but I"m sure after I see the car up  close (and with a tape measure in hand) that I'll come away with exactly what I need to make the Mav as accurate as it can be...........I'm stoked, can you tell?     So, thank YOU Dave for even  mentioning the show in the first place as I had no knowledge of it.  I'll update this briefly after my visit to his shop and pics of the car up close.   Cheers, Tim

[charlie libby]

Hi tim amazed as always . Looked at this and went to my little shop and tossed my radiator in the trash. If i send measurments will you build me one?