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#435927 Some Trans-Am project updates...
Posted by Mike K. on Saturday Feb 28, 2015 at 10:01AM
Greetings,

First, a pair of images telegraphing how some work on a '68 Shelby Racing Co. Jerry Titus Tunnel Port 302 conversion based upon the 1:18th Greenlight tool is coming along. This is an old project, with the arrival of some new pieces such as the alternate ARE wheels and appropriate carburetors making the prospect more attractive at present. The fender flares are hand made in resin as is my fashion, whereas the front and rear valance panels are essentially scratch built.



...the topic at Watkins Glen in '68 where Titus won. Very much a forgotten race car, at least the project will display well next to an AUTOart Shelby Racing Co. Toyota 2000GT if nothing else! Given the orphan status of both efforts that year, they'd have much to talk about surely.



...the front valance panel after first casting it in resin prior to reshaping the same. Obviously this is a spare shell, given all I cared about was the clean removal of the shape beneath the headlight buckets. Everything I could plug on the metal part I did with the intent of affording myself a clean slate when I'd 'have at it' in resin.



...reshaped, albeit not yet complete, installed if you will on the new shell w/flares. The lip between the base of the grille seen in the mock up image is not complete, although I intend to add it soon.



...the rear valance panel, overlaying the largely formless standard panel with GT exhaust cutouts. Also seen is the fuel cell housing peeking out below, whereas recently I've employed the services of a local plastic vacuum plater who can afford the treatment to matters such as the fuel inlet resting atop the deck lid.



...looking fierce from a rear three-quarter perspective. CA glue and 1:1 body shop spot putty was employed here, while the results seems bomb-proof. The cage is half-done here, waiting for dashboard mount modification prior to the addition of A-pillar bars, etc.



...and just in passing, my attempt at a reasoned 302 Tunnel Port Trans-Am mill. The intake is pretty raw as seen, although all I've done to this point is create the floor of the intake, the mounting flanges as well as the basic intake plenum shapes. Four attachment points for each of the carburetors will be added for the use of smaller plastic rod mounted straight up, as will the individual ports and mounting points across each intake to head flange. I said it was rough!

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Meanwhile and on the Chevrolet front, I've harbored ambitions to fit out my '67 and '68 Penske Donohue Trans-Am Camaros with proper dashboards given GMP tooled and released them with '69 designs. Before long GMP released the Smokey Yunick Camaro with a more or less correct dashboard, although an enormous tachometer was cast-in to the middle of the dashboard positioned right on the edge of the pad. Not liking this at all, I nevertheless sourced a Yunick Camaro (or perhaps it was a 'Streetfighter' release in GMP parlance?) and carefully removed the tachometer for sanding followed hard on by the fabrication of a fill panel as seen just below the repair/removal effort atop it.



Hope now exists for accurate '67 and '68 interiors then, whereas the gauge pod/instrument cluster seen here is old GMP issue and not final. Thanks for reading/examining this message...


Mike K.




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