Pictures from 2008’s Spring Fling Mopar car show in Van Nuys are up!
We only attended Saturday as the price of gas made this a one day event for us. Although I didn’t have plans to buy anything, we found the exact tach I have been wanting; a discontinued Mallory Pro Tach 1 657 with built in rev limiter and shift light!
I got it for 65 which is a good price considering that it usually goes for over $40 + shipping on eBay for USED.
Photography at this event is harder than other car shows since the background is almost never clean (people walking around in back ground and reflections in cars paint). I’m trying this new gallery feature with Wordpress…
For the Rupp’s paint we decided to use Urethane since it is the most common and is likely what we’ll be using for my Dodge when she’s ready for paint. We found all the supplies at a small auto paint store that we just happened to drive by on the way to somewhere else. For the quart of paint, and all the other supplies it cost about $130 total for all the supplies we needed. A lot of money for a little bike, huh?
My pictures are up, this year I shot in mostly RAW and spent about 2 hours in post processing, mostly experimenting.
This year was great! DynoMax was there with the dyno and I was able to get three runs in (two for me, one of my dad). At the DynoMax Power to the Wheels dyno I witnessed a (roughly) 10% increase in horsepower and torque from last year’s self-destructing engine!
We stayed at Circus Circus this year and were satisfied with the room. We were put into the Manor, actually the very farthest room from the main Circus Circus building. Literally, the farthest possible, but the room was big and everything worked (mostly, shower drained slowly).
Rupp parts have become rather expensive lately, seems we are one of many Rupp restoration projects. Of the many parts we needed for this restoration is a 1971+ Rupp rear fender.We found a good front fender off eBay but the rear fenders are just too expensive for our budget so we make our own.
Magnum starters are interchangeable with LA starters. Magnum’s up to 1998, after that they use a different electrical connection but otherwise the start is the same as the earlier Magnum starter.
There should be an option to adjust the size and quality of the thumbnail in the same area as where you upload the image. I’m going to research this since the quality is too low and I’m sure others have had the same idea.
Over at www.hobbyfanatics.com is a thread by an amazing scale model builder featuring the Evangelion girls on race bikes in sexy race attire.
I found this some months ago and have read it twice, these sort of threads, known as Work In Progress (WIP) threads always interest me even though I don’t take part in the hobby. Seeing how much work and time goes into these and the creativity the builder has inspires me to do the same, if not building models then something along the lines of complexity and creativity.
Don’t forget to put “&fmt=18″ at the end of the URL (for higher res) if you follow this to YouTube. KOTOKO’s HAYATE no Gotoku!
btw: I increased the size (dimensions) of this video by modifying the second set of object sizes in the URL given by YouTube. 87% ratio, I chose 460X403.
 We used a wire wheel and sandpaper to strip most of the paint off the engine then used Dupli-Color Engine primer, paint, and clear coat. We cut CD print sticky paper to make a ring to cover a small amount of white paint we sprayed on the engine before the black, after taking the sticky paper off, we have a white ring similar to what came on the engine from Rupp. This picture is before taking the paper off.
 We also made an intake manifold from some metal tubing and the mounting brackets the previous owner used. We slid the adapters into a pipe we bent with a coating of JB weld as a sealer/cement. Then we used body fill to help make it look like one piece instead of three, and painted it on the engine.
Inspired by Danny Choo’s figure photo shoots, I decided to try it myself and of course, I did so with my favorite figure.I also plan on another photo shoot with the ComicCon version of this figure in the future.
