How difficult is it to put S.A.S on 350z??

I am planing to get the 350z track and the S.A.S kit from Chris and was woundering how hard is it to attach the kit on the z???
Tom

My thought from what I have seen:

If Chris made it any easier, he would be building the model for you.

Who is Chris and what does SAS stand for? Thanks.

I can answer that one since I just put one on my 350Z.
I would say its not for the begining modeler nor is it for someone who wants to do there first conversion. This kit is for advanced modelers only. I had no problems removing the parts from the 350 body using the back side of my x-acto knife, the only hard part was the door frame, but I went slow around the curves and it came off fine. Now the kit itself went on without any problems what so ever - except for the hood was a bit shallow from the front clip so I had to put a spacer between the two and fill with putty and scribe my own body line to seperate the two. Also one side of my front clip was a bit of a problem getting to say glued. But super glue and some tape fixed that.
After I primed I did find a few pin holes to fill in the body parts but nothing major.
Chris did an excellent job of making sure the parts fit as good as they do! I will be buying more from him in the future for sure.

Scott

Originally posted by SupercarFreak
Who is Chris and what does SAS stand for? Thanks.

SAS is Scale Auto Style

Chris is FlyontheWall.....aka proprieter and creator of SAS

Originally posted by freakray


SAS is Scale Auto Style

Chris is FlyontheWall.....aka proprieter and creator of SAS

So he owns his own company? :confused:
What cars does he make kits for?

Originally posted by SupercarFreak


So he owns his own company? :confused:
What cars does he make kits for?

I guess you could describe it as owning his own company.....

http://www.scaleautostyle.com

Originally posted by freakray


I guess you could describe it as owning his own company.....

http://www.scaleautostyle.com

thanks for the link and info.

Just finished one of these, not quite as user friendly as the Celica one, the only real problem is that since you remove the bonnet and bumper is making sure it all lines up afterward which it will with a little patience. Will post pics when I can get outside with the model as its been raining for last three days here

Originally posted by sugarcaddy
I can answer that one since I just put one on my 350Z.
I would say its not for the begining modeler nor is it for someone who wants to do there first conversion. This kit is for advanced modelers only. I had no problems removing the parts from the 350 body using the back side of my x-acto knife, the only hard part was the door frame, but I went slow around the curves and it came off fine. Now the kit itself went on without any problems what so ever - except for the hood was a bit shallow from the front clip so I had to put a spacer between the two and fill with putty and scribe my own body line to seperate the two. Also one side of my front clip was a bit of a problem getting to say glued. But super glue and some tape fixed that.
After I primed I did find a few pin holes to fill in the body parts but nothing major.
Chris did an excellent job of making sure the parts fit as good as they do! I will be buying more from him in the future for sure.

Scott


Scott has hit the nail on the head here, this describes exactly what its like to fit. These kits - resin parts in general for that matter - are for the intermediate to advanced modelers, i have made them as user friendly as possible ie with locating tabs that form to the contours of the underside of the kit body and made sure that they don't conflict with other parts such as headlights etc. In most cases I've reworked the areas where the chassis connects too.

The 350z kit is more difficult than others coz both the front and hood need to be replaced. Because one of the unfortunate properties of resin is a very slight shrinkage, you therefore get some tricky fitment issues with these two parts and some filling may be required with thin plastic card and putty, as Scott mentioned.

i'm working on it right now.. praticly finished so I can say it's above average difficulty.. this is not eazy, but could be harder.

You definitly need a lot of time and putty/primer/sanding skill.

the hardest part is removing the old part off the body.. then modding the frame to fit the new body kit (removing some part)