Post by SKR on Jun 11, 2009 14:28:06 GMT -7
Time to start seeing what everyone is up to in their Garage for the Gasser Summer Nat's. Please post pictures here of your projects in the early stages.
When I think of Plymouth Fury, I think of Rapid Richard. Richard brought his family's 62 Plymouth Fury by the shop to see what we could do to get it ready. Since Altered wheel base bodies are NTRA legal this year we thought we'd take advantage of that and help out his weight transfer by Altering this Family treasure. This project here is going to be old school, crude, back yard style and if it looks Fugly to you at the end....... then you probably should be on the tuner/import boards instead of here
So with that being said...... Let's chop this mother up!
Richards mint Fury
As you can see the wheel base is much longer than a Tjet's even at it's longest wheel base setting.
Made some guide lines for the new wheel base. The tool shown on the dremel is one that I used after making my initial cuts to smoothen things up a bit.
Always use safety glasses when working around power tools. No joke folks! You only get one set of eyes. Take care of them.
I used a cutting disc and chopped up to the lines.
After smoothing things up a bit.
I took some .030" styrene and free handed some lines similar to the opening that we will be filling.
I super glued the styrene filler panels on and used a round stone dremel tool to open up the wheel well a bit.
Next time we will fill in the new panel with some filler and smoothen things up. I will make a casting of this and finalize the details before making the final master mold.
Until next time from the Gasser Garage..... Keep the front end high!
When I think of Plymouth Fury, I think of Rapid Richard. Richard brought his family's 62 Plymouth Fury by the shop to see what we could do to get it ready. Since Altered wheel base bodies are NTRA legal this year we thought we'd take advantage of that and help out his weight transfer by Altering this Family treasure. This project here is going to be old school, crude, back yard style and if it looks Fugly to you at the end....... then you probably should be on the tuner/import boards instead of here
So with that being said...... Let's chop this mother up! Richards mint Fury
As you can see the wheel base is much longer than a Tjet's even at it's longest wheel base setting.
Made some guide lines for the new wheel base. The tool shown on the dremel is one that I used after making my initial cuts to smoothen things up a bit.
Always use safety glasses when working around power tools. No joke folks! You only get one set of eyes. Take care of them.
I used a cutting disc and chopped up to the lines.
After smoothing things up a bit.
I took some .030" styrene and free handed some lines similar to the opening that we will be filling.
I super glued the styrene filler panels on and used a round stone dremel tool to open up the wheel well a bit.
Next time we will fill in the new panel with some filler and smoothen things up. I will make a casting of this and finalize the details before making the final master mold.
Until next time from the Gasser Garage..... Keep the front end high!
