Post by ChrisV on Nov 24, 2007 17:50:10 GMT -5
Hi!
Thanks to Erik ("kruzing") here's a couple of pictures of one of my latest projects.
I'm building an Austin Healey Modified Sportscar (a drag racing class with rules similar to the gassers, except they were allowed to run with 25% engine setback - gassers could only have the engines set back as far as 10% - and they were allowed to run non-stock fiberglass bodies).
The project is based mainly on the old Revell Healey 100-six kit from somewhere around '58-'61, so it has a multi piece body, but to my great surprise, a quite high detail level.
The Healey kit was born as a 100-six BN4 body-style, but I figured that a 2+2 configuration wasn't really very sportscar-like, so I converted it into a 100-six BN6 (two seater).
A rebuilt Revell Parts Pack 283 with B&M Hydro and a 6-71 Blower is going to provide motivation for this little monster.
I still haven't decided on how to do the headers, but it will be some sort of fenderwell-style.
The odd glass part on the hood is an Indy car windshield, that I'm going to use as an air-deflector around the blower (Almost all of the drag-Healeys I've found pictures of had similar hoods).
I'm going to build an all new frame from styrene rods (once my LHS gets them in the right dimensions).
It will get an Pontiac/Olds rearend from the AMT '33 Willys, and a tube axle mounted with either friction-shocks (early thirties ford style...) or a bizarre quarter-elliptical leaf spring setup I've seen on another old Draggin' Healey.
Tires are from Revell's "Miss Deal" Studebaker, and the wheels are from Lindberg's Little Red Wagon and AMT's '63 Corvette
Thanks to Erik ("kruzing") here's a couple of pictures of one of my latest projects.
I'm building an Austin Healey Modified Sportscar (a drag racing class with rules similar to the gassers, except they were allowed to run with 25% engine setback - gassers could only have the engines set back as far as 10% - and they were allowed to run non-stock fiberglass bodies).
The project is based mainly on the old Revell Healey 100-six kit from somewhere around '58-'61, so it has a multi piece body, but to my great surprise, a quite high detail level.
The Healey kit was born as a 100-six BN4 body-style, but I figured that a 2+2 configuration wasn't really very sportscar-like, so I converted it into a 100-six BN6 (two seater).
A rebuilt Revell Parts Pack 283 with B&M Hydro and a 6-71 Blower is going to provide motivation for this little monster.
I still haven't decided on how to do the headers, but it will be some sort of fenderwell-style.
The odd glass part on the hood is an Indy car windshield, that I'm going to use as an air-deflector around the blower (Almost all of the drag-Healeys I've found pictures of had similar hoods).
I'm going to build an all new frame from styrene rods (once my LHS gets them in the right dimensions).
It will get an Pontiac/Olds rearend from the AMT '33 Willys, and a tube axle mounted with either friction-shocks (early thirties ford style...) or a bizarre quarter-elliptical leaf spring setup I've seen on another old Draggin' Healey.
Tires are from Revell's "Miss Deal" Studebaker, and the wheels are from Lindberg's Little Red Wagon and AMT's '63 Corvette