Cut down wide track car! *PICS* Update 1/3/10
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 8:27 pm
I've wanted to build one of these for a long time, I even went as far as to buy the arms from Dynotech a couple years ago, and then sold them to a member on here. Anyway, I decided this time around that there's going to be some follow through with the project! I think the worlds car I'm working on is giving me the inspiration, not to mention the other builds similar to this one that have been completed over the past year. I was fortunate enough to get enough nice parts with my worlds car to make this project that much more of a reality as well.
Here's how she sits right now, the Tub is a very nice, almost shelfer quality B stamp that I proceeded to cut down by 10mm, the nose plate was a NIP 10T plate and the motor plate was a pretty clean one I had floating around that somone did an awful job of cutting up, so with some careful dremel work and filing it came out pretty nice as well. The white bulkhead was a really nice one that had a similar fate to the one on that gold tub I recently sold so it went in the mill for some sexy clean up where the ears were taken off with a hacksaw. I kinda wanted to do some Rulux wheels but then I decided I wanted this car to kind of mimic my worlds car since I had enough white parts left over from the team car I picked up that donated it's chassis, so I picked up some yellow B4 wheels and proline bowties. those will be driven by the B44 cva's and RPM truck carriers. I have a white case stealth soaking in the simple green right now that will go together with new bearings, diff, and that titanium topshaft I came across a couple weeks ago. The rest of the build I'll kinda figure out as I go along, I have some new 1.32 and 1.02 threaded body shocks and some truck towers that I'm going to play around with, not sure what I'm going to use for steering yet, would like to find a houge set, but I don't know how realistic that is.
Here's where I'm at after about two hours of goofing off.
Here's how she sits right now, the Tub is a very nice, almost shelfer quality B stamp that I proceeded to cut down by 10mm, the nose plate was a NIP 10T plate and the motor plate was a pretty clean one I had floating around that somone did an awful job of cutting up, so with some careful dremel work and filing it came out pretty nice as well. The white bulkhead was a really nice one that had a similar fate to the one on that gold tub I recently sold so it went in the mill for some sexy clean up where the ears were taken off with a hacksaw. I kinda wanted to do some Rulux wheels but then I decided I wanted this car to kind of mimic my worlds car since I had enough white parts left over from the team car I picked up that donated it's chassis, so I picked up some yellow B4 wheels and proline bowties. those will be driven by the B44 cva's and RPM truck carriers. I have a white case stealth soaking in the simple green right now that will go together with new bearings, diff, and that titanium topshaft I came across a couple weeks ago. The rest of the build I'll kinda figure out as I go along, I have some new 1.32 and 1.02 threaded body shocks and some truck towers that I'm going to play around with, not sure what I'm going to use for steering yet, would like to find a houge set, but I don't know how realistic that is.
Here's where I'm at after about two hours of goofing off.
