big tub resurrection

[jbwelda]

back from the glue bomb heap, heres some pics of progress on this City

Styles project car, Summertime Blues:

chassis is done and awaiting motor:

close up of raised front axle mount, achieving about a scale 3" drop:

heres the Hilborn fuel injection manifold as it came, along with some fuel

blocks i made of questionable quality:

finally a shot of the injection pretty much ready to mount to block:

ive got a music festival to put on next weekend but after that i hope to

concentrate on this for completion by end of august...

oh yeah, "Summertime Blues" = anything painted blue.

this particular car i picked up on ebay for pretty cheap but it was pretty

well glued together with a faded funky silver paint job, and has sat around

for two years or so, staring at me, finally decided to get it apart and do a

quickie rebuild on it. well you know how that goes.

engine is nearly ready to assemble and install in chassis, then its just

finishing up the body and interior, which is going to be stark.

[Smart-Resins]

I love that kit.Cant wait to see it all come together!

[Modellpularn]

Cool stuff! The fuel injection will be wild! That's from the Custom Engine kit, isn't it? I have that as well... I have one that's also been built, and fell apart,..etc. Not complete. Traded it for some spare Lindberg '34 Ford p-u parts from a friend. Now that the Big T is out again, I bought two! One is for the buildup of the tub.

[jbwelda]

hi hans, yes originally i think that injection setup was from a custom engine kit, but this particular one is a resin (i think) repop of that, cleaned up and metalized, plus brass flared tubes. i have two or three of the originals and i picked this up almost exclusively for the tubes, but the manifold is cleaned up a bit too and the metalizer finish is very nice.

the only criticism i have of the injection kit is that the tubes would be better in aluminum, but it was probably easier to flare brass than aluminum. as it is i polished the brass and then sprayed aluminum sheet buffing metalizer on them. look very good i think. also there are guide tubes down inside the tubes that i painted red and it looks like nice detail down there on what would be the injector nozzles.

i will get some more pics up soon i hope...