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Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 (DeA 1/8) W.I.P


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... pedal brake hoses, fuel tank hose and float cable.

P.S Don't mind the handbrake system as it's wrong, I'll fix it later ...

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..found the right curve of the exhausts I dedicated myself to making silencers, which in all the images, restorations on you tube and motor trend I see in a different form from how the DeA kit proposes them, to make them come from lighters ...

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Thanks andmarsh. in the front I picked up the steering levers and the steering gear with the piston, it seems to me all a little too simplified, first I eliminated the screws and built the bolts, because nuts I have a lot but no bolts. to turn the nuts into bolts it is very simple, insert the screw and glue it to the desired height, cut the thread with the excess head, putty with cyan and bicarbonate and here is the set that serves nuts, bolts and washers ...

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... here my attentions have shifted to the steering box and the related piston, first I cut off that tube that comes out of the box and replaced it with the spare tube of the multi-tool, which has an internal thread and the space where the tires go, is also perfect as a measure ...

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... mounted the piston I made the piston dust cover with the mobile part of the straw. For this idea I have to thank my 4-year-old daughter, who asked me for a juice with a straw yesterday, I would never have arrived ...

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... the assembly on the linkages is too stocky and has a very approximate mounting with a screw, I replaced the part of the assembly with a piece of antenna, creating the bolt entry hole ..

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... continuing the work on the front I took the stabilizer bar with rods incorporated all in one piece of plastic. I threw everything away except the swinging part and rebuilt with copper pipes and closed the holes where the pseudo bushings were screwed ...

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... once the connecting rods are finished, it is up to the stabilizer bar, always made of copper tube, I prepared the holes on the floor (in metal) for the brackets and after passing the exam by dry assembly I painted it

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The carburetor, manifold, and head assembly is beautiful.  It's all excellent work but I really like how that particular assembly turned out.  Top marks!!

 

JCH

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50 minutes ago, mirage said:

... connecting rods and anti-roll bar assembled after making the holes for mounting nuts and bolts I positioned the brackets for connection to the platform.

 

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Although your workmanship is beautiful, there is a technical fault revealed in the photo above. The anti-roll bar is incorrectly mounted and shaped. Possibly your reference was of another source. As you have it, the retaining bracket would be ripped off the chassis gusset the first time the lower control arm (which causes the bar to twist and resist the force) deflected. The geometry is incorrect. The bar should have a straighter center section (although it may have a clearance bend in it for an oil pan or the damper) and its retaining brackets would always be mounted in the same direction as the main subframe members. As seen here on an early Mustang:

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The red circles show the brackets and the arrows show they are parallel to the subframe members. The white oval shows the vertical link which connects the end of the bar to the lower control arm.

Here is my bar end and vertical connecting bolt with urethane bushings, attached to the lower control arm. . It is a very similar set-up and geometry to yours:

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I offer this because you have made great efforts to simulate accurate technical aspects of your model.

C

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