'53 Corvette

[Greg Pugh]

Thanks Bill!

[Greg Pugh]

The rolling assembly is a wrap! She's on all fours!

[pharr7226]

Very nice work on the frame. This is a nice tutorial on how to pinch the rear frame rails and make room for those fat tires. You have my attention sir.

[RatRodMarc]

Im liking were this one is going nice work

[Guest]

Looks cool Greg! Can't wait to see how you finish it up. I've always wanted to put a stock body on the Vetagin chassis,but never have gotten around to it. Don't make the mistake I did recently and make sure you also place your driveshaft in during your mock up. It's no fun having to hack up/repair/re-primer/repaint a floor pan during final assembly.

[Greg Pugh]

Thanks guys!

Thanks Roger, I've been down the road before too.

[mnwildpunk]

Love the 53 one of my favorites nice build of one too

[Dirty Gringo]

This is a nice project and a great how to thanks for sharing

[Greg Pugh]

Thanks guys. Glad it's helpful!

[bryan_m]

great frame work greg! and those wheels are awesome! i think i missed it, but where did they come from?

cheers

bryan

i guess if i would have read more................duh! those are nice wheels tho, and they look great on this!

Edited September 5, 2012 by bryan_m

[AUGIEDOGGIE]

keep up the great work!!

[Ira]

LOOKS GREAT!!!

[Helix]

Nice work indeed Greg, will look awesome when completed

[Greg Pugh]

Thank you everyone!

[tooltas]

got a ls6 vette motor or a custom fuellie small block of 57 chevy

[hacked]

very cool, sits spot on, toyota twin turbo 6 would fit nice

[Guest]

I think an injected six cylinder with a header would be really cool!

[zaina]

not a corvette fan, but this thing is boss! great work so far.

[GoatGuy]

Great build so far. What tires/wheels are they?

[Greg Pugh]

I believe they are off of a Dubs diecast.

[Greg Pugh]

I started working on the motor today. I decided to go with an injected Chevy Six. I had some cleaning up to do on the original kit-supplied piece though.

What I started with

Some trimming done

And a little more trimming

[Greg Pugh]

Now I had to deal with the huge hole in the side of my block and I needed to produce some cylinder head detail. I also had to build up the motor mount a little bit as I lost some of it when I was trimming. You can see where I made my marks for spark plugs.

Here I added some sheet styrene cut into short strips:

Then I added some half-round:

Then I was able to cover the rest of the hole with the side cover I scratched out of styrene sheet. It will be permanently attached after all painting is done.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Still love what you're doing. The stance, chassis work and engine mods all look great.

I'm surprised at how well the directional swooped wheel spokes work on this build. I don't really like them usually, but they're absolutely perfect here.

[vwrabbit]

Love the look! Gives me inspiration w/my early Vettes.

Tim

[Greg Pugh]

Thanks guys! I really appreciate it!!