BUD FAUBEL’S TURBOCHARGER 64/65 DODGE

[M W Elky]

I think this was a clever thing to do the 1964 wedge car after the Hemi’s came out making the wedge cars obsolete. From what I’ve read about this car is that Mopar dumped a ton of money into the R&D behind it. I’ve been working on this for quite some time now. It’s a kit bash of sorts combining the old johan 64 dodge with the polar lights 65 dodge . The Hemi is a mix of parts the block and tork flight are left overs from the revell hemi dart the heads and valve covers are parts box items . The turbo chargers are resin parts I can not remember were the inner cooler parts came from. The project stalled when it  came to making the piping for feeding in and out of the turbos. I have since accumulated some intake parts, and I plan to use some #8 solid copper wire for the piping in and out of the turbo. I’ve never been much of a turbo fan any advice is appreciated tell me what you think.

[bytownshaker]

Interesting Youtube video on the car.   

 

[Altered Ego]

MW, you are my hero.  It seems whenever I have an idea to do some off-the-wall build and begin to list out the items needed, you pop right in there with the build!  These builds combined with you Building The Covers series are my favorites on this site.  Keep up the good work.

[papajohn97]

What a terrific project Michael! I’ve thought about trying this one after seeing the decals on eBay (“CoCo’s Slotcar Decal Store”?) but was intimidated by the amount of scratch building and improvising required for the under-the-hood details and accuracy.  This Faubel car epitomizes to me the hyper-creative technological progression of these mid-60’s door slammers, mostly built by dudes with weekday jobs (Faubel was a car salesman I believe). This period is much more interesting for me to model than  the corporate-controlled homogenized boring churn of drag racing of more recent years.

On 11/21/2024 at 4:51 PM, M W Elky said:

I have since accumulated some intake parts, and I plan to use some #8 solid copper wire for the piping in and out of the turbo.

I’ve never had any luck bending thicker copper rod or tubing for car model projects such as headers. I’ve had much better luck using 2 mm OD solder, readily available on Amazon or eBay.

Please keep going on this one Michael! I need you to figure this one out so I can copy you some day! 😁

Edited November 23, 2024 by papajohn97
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