32 5W Chop

[bill-e-boy]

I have painted the upholstery. Off white main colour and Pearl Moss Green as the accent

De-chromed and cleaned up the brake rotors and painted them SMS stainless steel with calipers accented with pearl green. Sorry no pix yet

The gear shift was chunky so I made up a new one. The only part I kept from the kit part is the boot. The lever is a chrome pin and I machined an ally piston which ended up with a diameter of 2mm and a length of 2.5mm - much better 

Boot painted SG black and the rink groves highlighted with panel line accent

And the kit rear coil overs are a bit clunky so I made some up.

The body top and bottom is 2mm rod, the collars are 1/8" tube drilled out to 2mm and cut to 0.5mm slivers. The coil is some 28g silver coated wire wound around the 2mm rod and stretched out to look like a coil. The parts were cleaned up and painted aluminium

 

 

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[bill-e-boy]

Well I nearly had the interior all finished up and went to glue the dash in and discovered that it would not fit. And the interior would not fit into the body either. It looks like I grabbed a 3W interior instead of a 5W - DOH!! And I had made such a nice job of it. Pix is of wrong interior

I got the correct interior prepped it and now have painted it in off white and pearl moss green and it is nearly reader to assemble. The

parts box steering wheel was missing a horn button so out to the lathe to turn one up. Looks fine after polishing and fitting to the wheel

The motor is coming together. The ignition has been wired with the correct flat motor firing order. The Thickstun valve covers look cool and give the rather dull looking stock flat motor some panache. The bits that hang off the motor are in the paint process at the moment and will be dded when I have done all the detail work.

A wee mock up to see that all is on the right track

The project is still heading mostly to plan. I made a list at the start of the project

So the deviations are:

Manual over auto - makes sense with a flat motor

Body - this is what started the project

We got the old timey big n littles but went with the 300B wires

Frame - no change - it is long (with gas tank and front horns) and usual treatment to lower both ends

Hiboy - yes please

Yet to dig up tail lights and likely to use large headlights

Well the red paint got the heave ho in favour of green - just too many red cars 

And the interior is now cream and green

Things have a way of changing during a build but big changes like colour choice have a huge impact on how the build turns out 

 

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[bill-e-boy]

My 32 Tudor build id under glass so got to do some work over the weekend. I colour sanded 3200 through to 8000g during the week taking my time and leaving it to sit and gas out some more between grit sizes. The Tamiya acrylic takes a while to harden and the wait time between paint and sanding of about 3-4 weeks was worth it 

Got some shine on it over the weekend  and some work on minor stuff 

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[Spex84]

Nice fab work, and the paint is looking killer! I love the color.

[Zippi]

I'm really liking that color Bill.  

[bill-e-boy]

Thanks Chris and Bob

Been working on the induction system

I have drilled the carbs for throttle shafts - 0.5mm brass wire. Also drilled out the fuel bowls for fuel lines

And made some linkages from 0.25mm ally printing plate that I have had for years

I cleaned up the linkages and fitted three of them to the carbs although it is a bit hard to see in the pix coz everything is the same colour

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[bill-e-boy]

Got the carb linkages and frog mouths onto the carbs. I have drilled for fuel lines but will wait till final assembly to install those.

The throttle return spring is a strand of copper wire from a small cable wound around a 0.5mm piece of piano wire and then stretched a little. 

 

[bill-e-boy]

I have the induction set up ready to be installed onto the motor. I have installed .4mm nylon fishing line for the fuel lines to the carbs. I have also made up a small fuel manifold and have "chromed" it.

A shot of the motor assembled and waiting for the exhaust manifolds to be fitted.

While I am at it I took the opportunity to test fit the motor into the chassis. All is not well. The motor is too far forward and there is not enough space for the radiator and fan. I will need to remake the motor mounts to get the motor back a bit. And that leads to fit issues elsewhere. The joys of monkeying around with non-stock kit parts - and this is what keeps the hobby interesting

The body is on its nose waiting for the glue to dry after fitting the windscreen

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[bill-e-boy]

Worked on the interior to get it ready to fit up. The combination of colours has worked out. The green body colour for the dash, dark green which is carried over from the motor and running gear and the off white as a contrast. Not seen here is the back side of the fire wall which is pleated and finished in off white. The carpets a flat dark green. The hood liner is off white too.

I went to fit the interior into the body and it does not fit. OOPs. Lets read the instructions - looks like the rear inner fenders for the high boy version are fitted AFTER the interior is fitted. Oh dear.

Well in for a penny. in for a pound and hoping I would not stuff up the top chop, I wedged it in there by spreading the body apart more than I thought it would go and in it popped. Yahoo!!

Now that it is in there you can hardly see it coz of the chop. 

I need the body ready to fit the chassis for the next step of sorting the motor placement.

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