jmpsebring Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 Time to get this started here instead of my other 1/25 comp coupe thread. I have a comp resins 23T body. A Don Prudhomme front engine dragster. Power will be from a 392 hemi or SOHC Ford. I've started on the frame using 3/32nds brass rod and tubing.
jmpsebring Posted February 24, 2012 Author Posted February 24, 2012 I just might change my mind. I was going to build a current nostalgic car so I could use a mixure of parts and more modern paint schemes and colors. Now I just might add another 2" to my frame. If anyone saw the last Hot Rod deluxe magazine cover, you'll know why.... I'm not 3 weeks ahead and posting everyday. This thread will have down time as I bounce around. But I do need to get it going.
Mooneyzs Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 Jack.. this looking great man. awesome work so far. i bought that mag for the article on the freight train. you take a look at Tim Pentacost's ( hope I spelled last name right from my memory. he did a dual injected FED. his handle.here.i believe is Ibtim. it is a beautiful build and I have had the pleasre of seeing it in person. youbmay have to dig a few pages back here
jmpsebring Posted February 25, 2012 Author Posted February 25, 2012 Jack.. this looking great man. awesome work so far. i bought that mag for the article on the freight train. you take a look at Tim Pentacost's ( hope I spelled last name right from my memory. he did a dual injected FED. his handle.here.i believe is Ibtim. it is a beautiful build and I have had the pleasre of seeing it in person. youbmay have to dig a few pages back here Thanks for the info. Nice car! I can't think of a more fitting subject. I don't want to build a dozen cars. it would be nice to build one dual-engine large-scale model. Plus when you start with quality parts and build an older style car, you realize they are not very complicated cars. I do think that matching headers will make or break the final look.
jmpsebring Posted February 25, 2012 Author Posted February 25, 2012 (edited) Before I saw all of the promod builds I was ready to do a whole frame. But I'm already itch'n to make a Promod chassis. Plus when I put the (perfect) comp resin's body on the frame , I realized you wouldn't see anything. the seat, body and floor will hide almost all of it. The upper rollbar is very visual so I chopped it off. It didn't take too long to scrape and sand the rear frame area. I used Tamiya spray primer to "round out" & resurface the frame. Edited February 25, 2012 by jmpsebring
jmpsebring Posted February 25, 2012 Author Posted February 25, 2012 I would love to use the Fords, but their distributor driven off the front makes the inline coupling diificult. It will go in an altered or possibly a saltflats car. Lots of work last night. I put in most of the remaining sections. At this point I can start building frame detail and locating major components. This morning I went off to my friends house who just happens to have a bead blaster. It leaves the frame incredibly clean and smooth with a uniform sanded surface. After the pre-build, it's one more trip to the blaster then primer.
Mooneyzs Posted February 25, 2012 Posted February 25, 2012 Jack... the frame is looking great man. Keep up the awesome work on it. Very nice work you are doing.
jmpsebring Posted February 26, 2012 Author Posted February 26, 2012 Thank You Gentleman. One of my fave 'finds' are these Hi qual little plated brass tubing sizes in the beads area of the craft stores. They can save so much time when you need 6 equal little sections all held to a tight dimension. Just use them when you deem them necessary. Because the frame is brass, I can dip it in Lacquer thinner right now. I don't even know what decade this will be in so I sure don't know what colors I'll use. This is Brilliant Blue Tamiya spray. If I go modern, a blue frame with yellow engine blocks white headers and a yellow/blue/black or white combo might get the nod. If I go period correct, then the same old colors will come up again. In the end, it's the decals I'm held to design around. Like many ...When I get my Slixx order, I'll have to choose parts from what's been printed. One pic shows some of the detail of the 392 hemi. I figured some would like to see the motor before it's been cleaned up.
stump Posted February 26, 2012 Posted February 26, 2012 Hi Jack. Great start to this one mate. The chassis looks fantastic. I'm really liking that bead blasting trick too....what a sweey idea. Good luck, and keep us posted.
jmpsebring Posted March 7, 2012 Author Posted March 7, 2012 (edited) Lot's of hours working on various things. I started on the rollbar, it will be glued to the plastic frame. I closed the gap around the firewall by rolling a bead of APOXIE sulpt and pushed it in place around the body. Then I push the body down over the firewall and the extra putty squished out. Once it half set up, I trimmed off the extra and allowed it to dry. One of my favorite tools is this 1x2x3" iron block. It's very heavy, dead on for being Square. It's impossible to hurt. Plus it's not alot of money. I use it constantly as a 3rd hand, a quick height gauge to transfer graph paper lines vertically. I solder with it. etc. Highly recomended! I soldered up some brass as I try to make an intake manifold. The same company that makes the little tubing pieces also makes this very small silver-plated spiral wire. All of this is to make perfectly spaced welds around the intake. I coated the parts with acid then floated solder over it's suface. Finally soldered the wire along the tiny channel I developed when I soldered the brass stock together allowing me to countersink the wire slightly keeping the wire very straight. It's just an experiment to see if it's an effective way to make highly visable welds. I've tried putty too. Edited March 7, 2012 by jmpsebring
Prostreet Posted March 7, 2012 Posted March 7, 2012 Nice work on the upper cage Jack, What the heck is the first picture of?
jmpsebring Posted March 7, 2012 Author Posted March 7, 2012 trying to make a sheet aluminum intake manifold out of brass. Sonny and others make these manifolds and they leave all the welds visible like artwork as opposed to grinding down the welds and polishing to a shine. I tried to post photos with the reply above them. Something happened and I lost the images. So I posted the photos again. I'm too tired to worry about it tonight.
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