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speedgraflex wrote:Beautiful! Shazam! My interest piqued by the ‘68 Hemi Dart! Oh, man, what a ride that is gonna be. I was derailed on a GT40 purchase on eBay by 1 dollar. That knocked me down. It was such a beast model in 1/16 scale.

What’s next here?

If you wait till August, Revell will be kicking out their last one with their brand new Ford GT kit.

More engine work on the way.............and thanks guys.

I'm waiting on throttle linkage, spark plug wires and the like for any more progress on the engine.

Until then I'm marchin' on with the wheel construction. Since I've gotten the modifications to the rear wheel sleeves from my local machine shop , I've been waiting on the studs and nuts needed for the rear wheels.

I took the base wheel face and drilled all the lug nut holes out a little so the studs would fit.



Here's the lug nuts that I acquired from RB Motion: (if none of you have checked THAT site out then you need to. AMAZING stuff on there)



Lug nuts installed:



And here we are with the wheel face adhered onto the wheel sleeve and a light wash applied to the lug nuts to bring out the detail. Before installing the wheel face I hit the wheel sleeve with some steel wool and then followed that up with some Mothers Aluminum Polish to bring a nice shine to the sleeves. Each of the rear wheels were 8 pieces in total. Fronts were 4 pieces each.

Oh my....

Thanks guys.

Gonna figure out a way to drop it down a little more in the front but the back wheels and tires are right where they are going to sit.

Yeah, that front end needs to be lowered for a proper stance.

I hear ya.................she's a little higher than I was shootin' for alright.

To recap:

Before:



and after the correction. This is about as low as I can go with it but I think it's enough.

Well, you eliminated that gap above the front tire under the fender... which I think was the biggest issue... much better...