Prostocker II
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:34 pm
Well I finally got this done. At the end of the video for Project: Prostocker, I had said, "To be continued..." and a couple people have asked me what happened with that, well here's what happened:
Project Postocker was a pretty impressive car at the time, I think I've only seen a few that can compare. Hue35 fell in love with it, and wanted one, I wanted him to have one as well, so he commissioned me to build him one. My only guidelines were that he liked the wheels, it had to be 27mhz, and it had to be crazydave style. So I had decided the sequel to the vid had to have two cars dragging, but it took me a lot longer than I thought.
I went through a period where I burned out on bits, then I built up a Prostocker II, but it just didn't go right, it had to many problems to list. I realized I was just trying to copy exactly what I did before, and was just going through the motions. I decided it had to be a Dodge, to build up some rivalry behind the two cars. I looked at some pictured of old Challengers, and got a picture of what I wanted in my head.
I started with a door card from the Stardust casino. It's set to be demolished this year, so that makes it kind of an artifact of our gambling nature, which relates back to drag racing. Gives the car mojo. The front end is from a Precious. It had good steering wires. I filled the front end with Zip Zap guts, and dual steering springs. The rear end is from a Zip Zap SE. Hardly used, I killed that damned car right away. Altogether a solid basis.
I painted the chassis with Ultra Flat Black Krylon enamel, for that primered look. I used the Hot Wheels style wheels in all four corners, because I think it was the rotational mass of the aluminum wheels that was screwing with PSI. I trued the rear wheels by attaching them to an axle, and spinning them with a drill on a piece of sand paper. Then stretched Tomy pullback rubber over them. After several failed attempts at making front wheels that are true, I ran out of Hot Wheels. So I shaved them down really thin to fit inside zip zap hubs, they work perfect now.
The ZZ SE rear end goes up inside the body, looks cooler, but I had no where to hang my wheelie bar, so I made tiny little hangers, and even put itty bitty stops on them to hold the bar just above ground level. Hard to see in this pic, but its the best I could do. Just try to imagine.
So here it is the end result, but I gotta tell you, I'm not happy with the paint job. Too much white. I should have made Red the dominant color, buy honestly, I was just thinking about the easiest way to mask it. I might repaint it before I send it to Hue.
So there you go Hue, I finally built your car. Give me a few weeks to give it a going over, and possibly repaint it, but its yours, and I'll send it out soon.
Project Postocker was a pretty impressive car at the time, I think I've only seen a few that can compare. Hue35 fell in love with it, and wanted one, I wanted him to have one as well, so he commissioned me to build him one. My only guidelines were that he liked the wheels, it had to be 27mhz, and it had to be crazydave style. So I had decided the sequel to the vid had to have two cars dragging, but it took me a lot longer than I thought.
I went through a period where I burned out on bits, then I built up a Prostocker II, but it just didn't go right, it had to many problems to list. I realized I was just trying to copy exactly what I did before, and was just going through the motions. I decided it had to be a Dodge, to build up some rivalry behind the two cars. I looked at some pictured of old Challengers, and got a picture of what I wanted in my head.
I started with a door card from the Stardust casino. It's set to be demolished this year, so that makes it kind of an artifact of our gambling nature, which relates back to drag racing. Gives the car mojo. The front end is from a Precious. It had good steering wires. I filled the front end with Zip Zap guts, and dual steering springs. The rear end is from a Zip Zap SE. Hardly used, I killed that damned car right away. Altogether a solid basis.
I painted the chassis with Ultra Flat Black Krylon enamel, for that primered look. I used the Hot Wheels style wheels in all four corners, because I think it was the rotational mass of the aluminum wheels that was screwing with PSI. I trued the rear wheels by attaching them to an axle, and spinning them with a drill on a piece of sand paper. Then stretched Tomy pullback rubber over them. After several failed attempts at making front wheels that are true, I ran out of Hot Wheels. So I shaved them down really thin to fit inside zip zap hubs, they work perfect now.
The ZZ SE rear end goes up inside the body, looks cooler, but I had no where to hang my wheelie bar, so I made tiny little hangers, and even put itty bitty stops on them to hold the bar just above ground level. Hard to see in this pic, but its the best I could do. Just try to imagine.
So here it is the end result, but I gotta tell you, I'm not happy with the paint job. Too much white. I should have made Red the dominant color, buy honestly, I was just thinking about the easiest way to mask it. I might repaint it before I send it to Hue.
So there you go Hue, I finally built your car. Give me a few weeks to give it a going over, and possibly repaint it, but its yours, and I'll send it out soon.
