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Post by 440gtx on Mar 17, 2010 19:12:20 GMT -7
I finally got a body on my AW chassis and made some runs. The best pass was a 1.241 and the slowest was a 1.287. These are fairly consistant runners.  The body is an AFX cuda. I had to cut the front axle and the body mounts out. I glued in new body mounts and opened up the rear wheel wells. One other thing that I had to do was to narrow the front by cutting the back side of the front wheels. Now they are tucked up under the body. |
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Post by dave hochallanged evans on Mar 18, 2010 1:36:39 GMT -7
where can we find diffrent 4Gear bodies?
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Post by 440gtx on Mar 18, 2010 4:10:58 GMT -7
where can we find diffrent 4Gear bodies? Autoworld makes the Grand Am body Aurora made a Vega, a Grand Am for the 4 gear and they made a pinto and a cuda for the standard chassis. I converted the Cuda body to the 4 gear with no trouble. Sam is making some F/C bodies that probably can be converted to the 4 gear. Scottman has a line on some bodies that a guy makes. Maybe he can post where he's getting his. 440 |
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Post by scottman2007 on Mar 18, 2010 6:26:30 GMT -7
Hey 440 Scottman here ,sam is right I know this guy who makes awsome 4 gear AFX funny car bodies,1974 vega,1978 Corvette,1982 Corvette,Monza Bodies,Chargeres,Cudas,all funny car bodies and he does some great Decals.Here is his email HairyCanaryJr@aol.com .
Tell him scott Turner sent you.
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Post by 440gtx on Mar 19, 2010 20:37:24 GMT -7
Just for fun, I tried the AW 4 gear at 25.6v with the cuda body and silicone tires.
The first run was with no traction mags and it spun the tires really bad but still ran a .927.
The second run I put 1 magnet back in the chassis, and it ran low .8's
For the third run, I put the second mag back in and it slowed down to high .8's
There was no front end hop, that I could see, on any of the passes.
I'm thinking on down the road, we could run these with a modern AutoWorld F/C body at the higher voltage and call it Top Fuel F/C. As easy as the magnets push in and out, this would make two classes for one chassis. Low voltage no magnets and higher voltage with magnet. It's just something to think about.
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Post by scottman2007 on Mar 20, 2010 10:29:03 GMT -7
Sounds good to em 440.or run stock top fuel funny car,and do new chassis,traction mags one or two and silicon tires,pre 1985 body for nostalgia,then do same thing for modern funny car bodies
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Post by johnbalich on Mar 20, 2010 20:14:44 GMT -7
I'll read this whole thread and get up to speed, but I am definitely in for any scheduled race>
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Post by scottman2007 on Mar 21, 2010 13:54:04 GMT -7
Thats good john go to the sign up thread and sign.
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Post by 440gtx on Mar 24, 2010 0:30:59 GMT -7
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Post by johnbalich on Mar 24, 2010 9:20:52 GMT -7
This is a very cool site. Another site which has tons of VERY early dragsters as well as many 70's Funny cars is wediditforlove.com
Some picture caches are free and some for a nominal membership.
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