SPA Modeler

Progress on this thing is super slow due to my not wanting to get ahead of myself and have fit issues. For instance, I glued the exhaust into place yesterday and I found a small glitch this morning when test fitting the cab onto the chassis. The rear of the cab contacted the mufflers so I had to trim the cab to fit onto the chassis correctly. So far it's coming along ok. I'm going to run the exhaust straight out the back and am going to start looking for some either AM exhaust tips or I'm going to fabricate my own and use a little chrome alclad on them. Anyways here are the beginnings of the tailpipes.......



The stance is dead on so far in regards to how I wanted this to look overall. I keep getting closer and closer to having this thing done in time for the Austin show in October...............

Outstandng. As it is, looks like some of the veee-hickels on the road out here.

Looking great!!

Thanks Lyle and Medicman! I've now got a plan for the exhaust exits so I'm going to have to go to HL tomorrow to pick up the necessaries. I'm also going to have to re-work that outside tail pipe in order to make the piping straight after the muffler. No worries, I've got plenty of solder.

Your progress may not be rapid, but it sure looks good.

Thanks stik!!
Well I've got the beginnings of the tail pipe routings and am at another decision point as to where I'm going to go with the exhaust. First off here's todays progress...



I have two options at this point and both will involve chrome exhaust tips. Option #1 is to drop one outlet per side which will look great from the top side but looks a little funny on the bottom side to me.



Option #2 is to drop both outlets on the same side which looks more uniform to me on the bottom side but to me doesn't look as good from the top side. I never was too big of a fan of same side exhaust exits though.....



I've still got to go pick up my aluminum exhaust tips today so I've got a little time to think about it.

I'd go with the #1 option. You're not gonna see the bottom side anyways.

I like the look of a pipe on each side myself... now two pipes on each side is even cooler...

Thanks for the comments stik and Tom! I'm slanting towards option #1 it looks like. I did go out today and get the aluminum tubing I needed from HL.



Here's how it looks right out of the package..



So I cut a section and chucked it up in the Makita drill, grabbed some steel wool and went to town...........



After the steel wool treatment I grabbed some Novus #2 and a polishing cloth. I dabbed some Novus on the polishing cloth and spun the drill up again on a low/ medium speed to polish the "tips" up. Here we are now with some nice exhaust tips. You can see the contrast between the side that was chucked up in the drill and the polished part. I'm happy!

Nice work. Do you have one of those tube bending tools that HL sells?