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Originally Posted by blubaja
I'm not too familiar with the kit, as I said before, or vans of this vintage. But my work van has an access to the motor from inside the cabin. Maybe you can open it up, if you want to show off more detail still.  |
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Originally Posted by Everett56
 Van, hum this comes too mind , if i was custom building this van, i myself would glue up everthing solid from top of windsheild frame down, the whole front clip as one, then make rails outa square tubes that slide into each other and glue these onto the frame rails, then would cut the whole front end off wheels and all right benhind the dash, glue this too one those square frame tubes that slides into the other one, then you can show off the engine by gently pulling the van front too lenght of tubes ,exposeing the engine , trans ect,just a thought i had Everett. would also make a neet trl this way too. |
Hi guys,
an d thanks for taking car e of my demand !
yes I think there must be an access from the cabin I saw that on some pics found on the web seeming to be taken from between the seats or something like that.
I still haven't completely decided if I open the doors or only the hood or if I should build a fully removable part to show the whole front of the car as suggested...
I don't want to cut too much and take too many risks to ruin the kit, I already completely cut more and more the cabin part and now I'm forced to rebuild it completely...
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Originally Posted by Everett56
Hi, you did not say what year van your working on, here in usa , most vans have a 350-350 turbo auto, as general power source, the earler vans came with 4 cyls and 6 cyls, i got a 350 chev , that will slide right in there, it's going on e bay in model parts mon morn as its was the one, i took out my 34 ford monogram model, 1:25th scale, what scale are you working on  ,Everett. |
As I said it before I'm completely ignorant about US vans, and one part of my problem was precisely to identify a year or a serie or a name of that van serie...
most of my search on the web seem to say it should be a van from the early 80's, I often found pics from a 82 van which is really close to the one depicted in the box.
And the kit has a V8 engine with a round airbox above it.
I'm not worrying too much about that anyway, as I don't expect a complete accuracy, but I mostly don't want to build womething that would be completely inaccurate !!
thanks again for your help.
I may start a thread here soon to show you my work on it.