69 Mustang (Home Built Special) Drift Car

[Cpt Tuttle]

I must say that I am impressed by your scratchbuilding skills!

[Cool Hand]

Been very fortunate and learnt a lot from others over many years and being able to transfer some real world skills into scale builds helps a lot along the way.

[Cool Hand]

Continuing on from after the tail shaft,

Attached the cover panels between the wheel tubs to the floor plate.

Flipped over the tub and set the chassis frame in place and traced.

Using the Dremel with a carbide burr. Opened up the end first, then cut the floor.

Test fit.

As mentioned will use this part from the kit

Checking out how to adapt the kit section of the tunnel.

Needed to raise the kit section, cut 2mm wide strips of 1.5mm.

And attached.

After raising, each end needed to be extended.

Started at the front, cut a strip 8mm x 1.5mm

Cut, glued and shaped. Then positioned and using a piece of 2x2mm transferred the fire wall angles.
Top section first.

Side vertical.

Angle to the floor.

After cutting realized the top was too low, so had to split and raise front edge.

Shaped the front and moved on to fill the gap at the back.

Rather than try shape a piece to fit, found some square solid that fit.

Had to cut 2 pieces to fill the width of the tunnel.

Shaped and test fit, not attached. Still requires final shaping and prep.

 

Once the trans tunnel is finalized, will move onto some roll cage work which should be in the next update.

Edited January 25, 2020 by Cool Hand

[Mattilacken]

Awesome! I always get inspired when looking at your build! 

[Rocking Rodney Rat]

This is just too cool. We need to see more work like this going on here... -RRR

[Funkychiken]

This is a masterclass of amazing work!

[Sledsel]

Wow... just wow. All that fabrication is too nutty for my ability, but looks awesome.

I am assuming there will be a dry sump of sorts for the engine since there is no place on the oil pan for the pump. LOL

[Cool Hand]

16 hours ago, Mattilacken said:

Awesome! I always get inspired when looking at your build! 

Thanks Anton always appreciate you commenting.

 Glad to know the build can inspire, also hope it can motivate you to work on your own builds.

13 hours ago, Rocking Rodney Rat said:

This is just too cool. We need to see more work like this going on here... -RRR

Thanks Rodney,

Most people would not have the time, to do a build thread like this one. They would be too busy working and living. LOL!

11 hours ago, Funkychiken said:

This is a masterclass of amazing work!

Thanks Atin appreciate you following along. Dont know if its a master class, just sharing the process.

6 hours ago, Sledsel said:

Wow... just wow. All that fabrication is too nutty for my ability, but looks awesome.

I am assuming there will be a dry sump of sorts for the engine since there is no place on the oil pan for the pump. LOL

Thanks Andy.

Yeah the sump is on backwards, not concerned about it.

But will entertain your critique and say the pump will fit under the front part and the pick up has been modified and extended LOL!

[Cool Hand]

Last thing done to the trans tunnel, filling under side with epoxy.

After curing will sand smooth.

 
Moved on to the roll cage.

Prepared the inner roof

Cut down the glass to allow for a closer fit of the cage.

Tape of to prevent possible damage.

Removed glass locater pins and smoothed out a bit.

Started by roughing out with some 1.6mm aluminium filler rod. 
Used flat nose plier to bend.

Centred the rod.

Measured roof for the width of the top.

Transfer to aluminium rod.

Bend to suit.

Measure distant from roof to door top.

Bend.

Shape adjustment. Benefit of using aluminium, easily adjusted and holds the shape.

Test fit to check width in the tub.

Repeated process for the front.

Transferred shape of the hoops to cardboard, used this as a guide when shaping the styrene rod.

After roughing in the aluminium rod, re made with 2mm styrene rod.

Edited January 26, 2020 by Cool Hand

[Cool Hand]

Shaped the 2mm styrene rod then fitted and taped to the roof.

After checking position added more rod to join the two halves together.

Cut flush with bottom edge of rocker panel.

Removed.

Test fit in the tub.

Measured bottom of frame to top of floor, about 7mm.

Marked 6mm as 1mm will go into the floor.

Cut

Placed the cage in the tub and put body on, positioned cage and marked location.

As mentioned 1mm of cage legs will locate in the floor so the body need's to come down more, as seen in this pic.

So needed to drill holes in the floor 1mm deep to lower the cage and become permanent locaters for the cage.

After removing tub from the body, needed to correct cage position.

Used some styrene shapes to make location holes a bit more accurate.
2x2mm square rod

6x4mm

1.2mm

Location a bit more accurate.

Drilled a pilot hole.

Drilled out to 2mm.

Test fit.

More will be added to the cage and shown next update.

Edited January 26, 2020 by Cool Hand

[stitchdup]

Nice work, some really inspiring stuff. Can I ask why you went from the ali cage to the plastic? No real reason just curiosity

[Cool Hand]

Find styrene easier to work with and glue.

[Sledsel]

3 hours ago, Cool Hand said:

 

Thanks Andy.

Yeah the sump is on backwards, not concerned about it.

But will entertain your critique and say the pump will fit under the front part and the pick up has been modified and extended LOL!

LOL.... Cool..... One of those new mini pumps... Yup, that's what it is! 

[beeRS]

This build is simply awesome! I'm loving the scratch building and the level of engineering being displayed. Truely inspirational.

[schultz84]

Excellent ?

[afx]

Nice work on the roll cage, hugs the roof and the A pillars just as it should.

[Cool Hand]

6 hours ago, Sledsel said:

LOL.... Cool..... One of those new mini pumps... Yup, that's what it is! 

Ah yes thanks for that.

5 hours ago, beeRS said:

This build is simply awesome! I'm loving the scratch building and the level of engineering being displayed. Truely inspirational.

Thank you very much Sonny

1 hour ago, schultz84 said:

Excellent ?

Appreciate you following along Philippe. Thanks

5 minutes ago, afx said:

Nice work on the roll cage, hugs the roof and the A pillars just as it should.

Appreciate the compliment JC.

Learnt to form the cage inside the body and against the roof from Remote Control drift car builders.

[Cool Hand]

Added a few more pieces to the roll cage.

Needed to mod the ends of the dash to fit around the cage.

Got a bit carried away removing material from the dash ends and will need to tidy up the fit, bit loose.

Few mocks with the body on.

[Funkychiken]

Enjoying following along! It's going to be a beaut!

[Reuhkapelti2]

When you first make the roll gage using aluminium tube, and then re-shape it with plastic tube, can you make the aluminium tube straight again and re-use it for another gage or does it snap broken? 

Excellent building so far, I really enjoy watching it. 

[Lowlife ! !]

 

I said at the beginning of this thread, one of the best chassis building tutorials I've seen !

Your very humble when complimented , but this is exceptional building and engineering Luke.  

So many tips and tricks I'll be saving this thread, and hopefully trying some of these things myself !

Look forward to more on this one mate, such an awesome build !

 

 

[streetmachine11]

this is such a great build. the concept and the scratch building gives me more ideas. your building is inspiring 

Edited February 1, 2020 by streetmachine11

[Scott Colmer]

WoW! Luke, This is an amazing build thread. Your techniques and methods are well thought out and produce excellent results. I'll keep watching.

Scott

[Brandon Miller]

Any update on this amazing build?

[ciales22]

What happened to this amazing build?