Silverado C5R, My Corvette C5R turbo Race Truck

[Mattilacken]

14 hours ago, Steve H said:

Hi Anton, I used several light coats of Tamiya “smoke”. Do some tests on a spare set of wheels. From my experience, the key is several light coats, if you try to go thick the results aren’t as good. It is a bit tricky to get it even on the deeper offset, but with your skill, definitely doable. By the way, where did those wheels come from? I didn’t see that in the thread, I really like them.

Cheers, Steve

Okay, thanks for the tips will buy a Tamiya smoke and decan it and have a go. ? 

they are from the Tamiya Porsche GT2, race car have slicks and the street version have some nice meats. Thing is that I used lips from my PB, probably from a aoshima wheel set can’t remember which, and made the Porsche fronts as rears with the lip and the Porsche rears as the Silverado fronts. The tires are a mix, used some tires with enough side wall and cut 3pcs apart to make 2 tires. The front tires came with Pegasus “19 T’s I Can show a picture later when I am at home.

Edited October 23, 2021 by Mattilacken

[Mattilacken]

On 10/23/2021 at 1:17 AM, Steve H said:

 By the way, where did those wheels come from? I didn’t see that in the thread, I really like them.

 

Here is the recipe as mentioned above , Porsche 911 GT2 front wheels with a extra deep dish from some “18 Aoshima wheel kit. Rear tires are 225/50R16 ?cut a part to get the width and stretched over a “18 wheel. Front wheels are the rear wheels from the Porsche. 
 

[Steve H]

Nice looking combo! Thanks for sharing the recipe Anton.

[Mattilacken]

Did a sketch on this while in Brazil.

[Mattilacken]

I can’t say I have any progress to show but I have been doing some work under neath. And I took some more beauty shots to make me want to build on it so to speak ? 

 

 

 

 

[Sergey]

Looking good!

[bobthehobbyguy]

Coming along nicely.

[Mattilacken]

On 4/1/2022 at 1:50 PM, Sergey said:

Looking good!

Thanks! Means allot coming from you! 
 

20 hours ago, bobthehobbyguy said:

Coming along nicely.

thanks m8! 

[Mattilacken]

Bought some 3D printed parts for my builds.. here is a quick mock-up of the intake and planed placement for the turbos. These turbos won’t be used I think there will be an other set.

this intake looks so good so I will use this instead of my own thought out piece! 
And thanks @Ghost_33for hooking me up! 

[Mattilacken]

Made some changes to the base engine. I won’t use the original intake so I used plastic strip to make the inside of the cylinder heads. Also used the 3d printed valley pan. 
made my second intake cut a bit better so it retained more height which suits the tall truck body well. 
 

 

[Saltie Olds]

That’s Awesome Lookin.

[Mattilacken]

32 minutes ago, Saltie Olds said:

That’s Awesome Lookin.

Thanks! 

[Saltie Olds]

27 minutes ago, Mattilacken said:

Thanks! 

You’re Welcome

[Mattilacken]

Made some progress with headers on LH side. 
 

[CarbonNglass]

This thing is the most insane thing I've seen in a while.  The amount of fab work is awesome.  I wish I waited on my for gt lemans kit to do something similar.  But man keep it up.  I can't wait to see how this gets finished.

[Mattilacken]

9 hours ago, CarbonNglass said:

This thing is the most insane thing I've seen in a while.  The amount of fab work is awesome.  I wish I waited on my for gt lemans kit to do something similar.  But man keep it up.  I can't wait to see how this gets finished.

Thanks man! It’s been allot of work and allot still remains! it’s not an easy project tats for sure! Follow the thread you will se when it progress! ? 

 

[CarbonNglass]

Oh I have followed.  I look forward to all the updates you give us.

[Mattilacken]

I had to start scrambling again. I designed these coil overs to make life easier ? 

had to try them out and se how they fit, and they seem to do the job.

Edited December 17, 2022 by Mattilacken

[Mattilacken]

Reworked the front part of the frame tonight. And the corvette supports actually fits and will “support” the “carbon fiber” bumper and grill perfectly! Some finishing touches to the frame work will be made. I also beefed up the main profiles to 2mm which would be a 50mm pipe.. dot know if I like it in these pictures, irl it looks ok, or maybe I shall remake my work in 1,6 ?

Edited January 2, 2023 by Mattilacken

[Mattilacken]

So I remade the previous work done in 2mm tubing out of the original corvette tubing which is 1,8mm. I made it with straight tubes without bends since the corvette chassi was made in that way. I also put back the resevoars for the front chocks.

 

Edited January 2, 2023 by Mattilacken

[Mattilacken]

To be able to engineer the truck as I want I had to cut some.. I cut out the rear wall of the cab and engineered it back to the chassis. This is to be able to fabricate the cage.

 

 

 

comments and Thoughts are always welcome ? 

Edited January 2, 2023 by Mattilacken

[Mattilacken]

Some more progress today, made the second header and started to plan for the exhaust.. as well as a ton of other work. I like having holiday ?

Edited January 3, 2023 by Mattilacken

[Mattilacken]

A quick reminder of what I started with.. I think there have been some modifications along the road! And there would have been many much easier ways to do this!! But a corvette racer hidden in a Silverado body will end upe some thing like this!  

 

[Kit Karson]

Heavy handed Chevy!  Vett-O-Licious!!  Mixing up the parts with a passion for the precision integration and fit is always fun to watch... -KK

[Mattilacken]

8 hours ago, Kit Karson said:

Heavy handed Chevy!  Vett-O-Licious!!  Mixing up the parts with a passion for the precision integration and fit is always fun to watch... -KK

Thanks! I appreciate you looking in and leaving a comment! It takes allot of time to try to reuse as much as possible of the original kit.