Build Thread 1978 Mercury Cyclone. The pig is in the pen.
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There will be another for the other side. Whether or not it'll match will be the challenge. Nothing I've built on this car that has required I duplicate it has matched so far, so I'm prepared for similar results.
This one went like clockwork. It isn't warped, I didn't burn through, and will require little filler to finish the thing off. It actually looks good underneath.
That tell you anything about how I should expect it's clone to go?
This one went like clockwork. It isn't warped, I didn't burn through, and will require little filler to finish the thing off. It actually looks good underneath.
That tell you anything about how I should expect it's clone to go?
An opinion which I appreciate, and you are entitled to. Thanks for the input.I liked the old scoops better
Now you can return to building that awesome, enviable, gigantor metal building,...cause I got some serious ignorin' to do.
Aww look at you,..using an iPhone/iPad to reply. The "u" and " I" are always getting past the stupid piece of junks auto correct, and the " n,m,b,v,c are always included in the word because they got hit instead of the space bar.
Yeah, the plan is forntwo.
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Aww look at you,..using an iPhone/iPad to reply. The "u" and " I" are always getting past the stupid piece of junks auto correct, and the " n,m,b,v,c are always included in the word because they got hit instead of the space bar.
Yeah, the plan is forntwo.
I don't even recognize those anymore. hahahaha
Probably why I can't learn French.
I can always pick out the English words from the French though. 
Aww look at you,..using an iPhone/iPad to reply. The "u" and " I" are always getting past the stupid piece of junks auto correct, and the " n,m,b,v,c are always included in the word because they got hit instead of the space bar.
Yeah, the plan is forntwo.
Galaxy actually.
Joe
I actually liked the original scoop better, but I'll reserve final judgement until I see them finished. So I'll let you spend dozens of hours blending them in and painting everything and then tell you I don't like it
I actually liked the original scoop better, but I'll reserve final judgement until I see them finished. So I'll let you spend dozens of hours blending them in and painting everything and then tell you I don't like it
The only reason that I like the new ones better is because the entire car takes the shape of a shoe box (long and angular). IMO, the new style inlets dampen that a bit. You have a little bit of automotive feng shui going.
I actually liked the original scoop better, but I'll reserve final judgement until I see them finished. So I'll let you spend dozens of hours blending them in and painting everything and then tell you I don't like it
Hey I appreciate that,..good to know that you'll be there for me w/ an I told you so after its too late to do anything about it.
I hear ya,..kinda thinking the same thing.
Naw,....water getting in is a secondary concern,...remember my mantra...
Ees better to look goo than to feel goo, ju know what I'm saying dahlink?
Seriously, water will fall straight to the ground where the inlets are located when washing the car. Rain is a crap shoot. I don't intend to get caught in it. Driving the car in the Alabama heat is the primary design consideration. That said the rear vents that were built for the old hood to allow the hot air a pathway out are back in as well. What is still up for debate ( albeit in my head) is whether or not I make that side functional because of that.
Roger that, Dapper Dan. In that case, why not go all out and grab as much ambient air as possible?
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What the pictures don't show is that there is already a kind of reversed version of that going on already that acts as a ramp into the mouth of the scoop...
Roger that, Dapper Dan. In that case, why not go all out and grab as much ambient air as possible?
I'm thinking..........
Umm, no.
I fully planned to do something on the car today.....That was yesterday.
The reality of last night changed that plan. Waking up on the bathroom floor at 3:47AM, after deciding staying there was the safest bet to ensure being able to make it to the vomitorium has left me a little shaky.
Probably better to avoid using angle grinders with unguarded .040 thick cut off wheels spinning at 13,000 rpm for today......
Yeah,....I'll just sit and watch Mythbusters.
The reality of last night changed that plan. Waking up on the bathroom floor at 3:47AM, after deciding staying there was the safest bet to ensure being able to make it to the vomitorium has left me a little shaky.
Probably better to avoid using angle grinders with unguarded .040 thick cut off wheels spinning at 13,000 rpm for today......
Yeah,....I'll just sit and watch Mythbusters.
Sorry it's a pic of an SN car
Also sorry you are Hung over
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