Time Attack/Circuit Racer Mitsubishi Evo V

[mugenhb]

Stunning work, I have always wanted to do a brass chassis, and you sir have rekindled my love for modeling. I think I will attempt a shot at a similar project.

love it keep it coming
Steve

[mike@af]

Thanks for all the kind remarks.

Originally Posted by jaykay640

Nice!!!!
I have no clue about that sort of car but your work on that frame looks waaay promising!

Thanks for the compliments jaykay, I'm very inspired by your work!

Originally Posted by willimo

Holy mother....! How did I miss this?

I don't know what's more astonishing, the fact that Mike's building something, or how fantastic this is going to be! Stellar work so far on the tube frame. What an amazing car this will be!

Haha, hey Will! It is rather astonishing that I'm building something! Thanks for the compliments!

[robrex]

Wow!

[gasdriverca]

Very nice intricate work there !

[mike@af]

I've spent some time designing the front suspension geometry, which I have of course overcomplicated. Instead of the standard vertical strut in the front I am going to build a double wishbone push-rod suspension typical of F1 and LMP cars. I spent a lot of time planning on paper and drawing in 3D SolidWorks before doing anything on the front. Now I need to machine 4 more of those control arm mounts.

I have also done some extensive work on the cabin/rollcage area. The roof structure maybe be familiar to those of you into WRC. I have used some smaller diameter tubing for a lot of the secondary supports similar to the what I'd do on the 1:1 Cages I've built. I also started the floor pan using .015" Brass sheet.











One thing that I've found quite amazing is I have used 13ft. (4meters) of brass tubing so far, and yes, it is 1/24 scale.

Enjoy!

[jano11]

Wow!

[Decs0105]

That is still brilliant !!!

[remingtonbox]

AWESOME! Where do you get your brass rod?

[white97ex]

Looking good Mike! I pulled out that scratch built "tire" that you sent some time back for me to look at, and wondered if you had been building.

[mike@af]

Just a quick update of tonight's progress. I've started working on the wheel wells. I used .015 brass strip for the wheel wells. I annealed some .032" Diameter rod to simulate bead rolling. You'll notice that the insides of the well are missing a giant square chunk. This will be filled styrene since it needs to have holes for the control arms and suspension components to poke through, styrene is just a lot easier to cut to that level of detail instead of brass.



I do need your input though. I'm not sure if the bead rolling is out of scale. I keep think its too big because I know mathematically it is too big and I am extremely tempted to redo it. Here it is apart of the frame, I'd like to hear your thoughts.

[Robi J]

Truly awesome... excellent craftmanship !

(and very nice photos)

Robi

[white97ex]

The bead rolling does look a tad big. What are you planning on painting the Chassis with? If its a paint that is going to spray heavy, it will probably come out looking perfect in the end

[Mikezibit]

great work, I`m impressed




Mikezibit

[mike@af]

Thanks for the kind remarks!

As some of you know I am a perfectionist, this can be seen in redoing the wheel arches. I removed the bead rolling and then I actually trimmed the wheel arches to make them a little smaller. I then resoldered everything and added some .020" rod to simulate the bead roll. It still didn't look right. I then removed the .020" rod, and then soldered some .015 rod which did the trick. I also went from three bead rolls to two.



Here I've laid the original wheel arch with .032" bead rolls to the new wheel arch with .015" rod.


I have also completed a majority of the work on the frame. All the brass work on the main part of the frame is done. I really need to start doing a lot of styrene work to fit the body to the frame before I can finish the front end mounting for the bumper and headlights.








As you can see I've removed the hood using photoetch saws. The front portion of the body sits up on the wheel wells just resting on it. This will soon be taken care of by notching the fenders to get the body to sit flush with the frame to start the rest of the fabrication. Also note the markings for the new wheel arches.



I really like this picture, it looks mean with those massive wheel arches.







Enjoy.

[rollin80s]

this one is going down in the history as the badest 1/24 brass caged time attack beast!!

just one question, what do you use as a torch? is it a jewelers torch?