Hotwheels Custom JUN Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X

11:06 PM
Thanks everyone for the waiting. I hope not to disappointing everyone either
Well, the most difficult part in the process are the masking for green stripe on the yellow color base on the both sides of the Evo X. It took 6 times masking on and off, spraying alternately in between.

The overall custom built lower skirting and rear GT wing kits are on experimantal stages and still not perfect yet especially on the GT wings with added brackets.

As for the side skirting and rear diffuser, i've added it to the Evo X and it's slightly not the same as the original JUN Evo X version.

The rear height of GT wing are raised up higher than the standard setting.

here's the completed custom JUN Evo X, enjoy...











 And the real JUN EVO X. sample pictures are courtesy from auto otaku.com.

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Custom Hotwheels Honda NSX Mobil One JGTC

1:13 AM
Sorry for the long and delay in posting of my custom work lately.
Currently still busy with my office work which requires me going to the site project for some supervision and solving technical issues arises from time to time. Sometimes ended up going home in the late midnight...everyday. Hope that the project will complete sooner and everything back to normal for my free time..which i enjoy most in customizing model cars, .....haha.

Here's another of my complete custom 1/64 scales Hotwheels Honda NSX Mobil One JGTC in white color.
Original casting was embossed with Acura logo. I've sanded it and replaced it with Red Honda logo on the front bonnet and some touch up to the rear engine.
Others are added side mirrors and speed machine's co-mo wheels.

enjoy...

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Hotwheels Datsun 240Z Custom Devil Z Version 2

5:03 AM

The owner of these new version has been waiting long for these 2nd and update version of my previous Wangan Midnight Devil Z. He has been happy to received since then when he saw these latest work.


Here are the latest improvement, Custom make side mirrors on the front bonnet, carefully chrome spray on the window frames trimming on all sides, choice of two different rubbers wheels set and lastly twin steel muffler at the rear end.


enjoy.......



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Miscellaneous Debris

8:37 AM

Much going on lately. Here’s a run-down:

Joe, Bow, and Randall ran the Snowspeeder at the debut race of The Ridge. They had a blast, worked through a few issues, and placed 15 of 45.

We’re prepping the MRolla for the September Thunderhill race. Other than checking compression and fluids, no maintenance, much less upgrades, have been done to the front engine. The water pump held on through the Denver race but was dribbling, so this weekend Paul and Will got to work on that. When they opened the covers they discovered that the timing belt was far gone. Very lucky this didn’t fail on track. I’ve never seen one so worn and still functioning.


We often find ourselves struggling to get the main pulley nut off our 4AGE engines. This time we fabricated a tool allowing us to hold the pulley and still torque the nut off with a breaker. It was handy this weekend and should be in the future.


While Paul and Will did the water pump and timing belt, I started rigging a new manual kick-down control for the rear automatic transmission. I used a bike brake lever and cable, and shortened the shift lever in the process. What you see is the manual shift lever for the front engine’s manual transmission, that also has a grip lever that will control the shift RPM of the rear automatic transmission. It will shift at about 5300 RPM when the lever is released, and at about 6500 RPM when the lever is activated. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but we are optimistic this will improve our climbing and low speed corner exits significantly. Our secret (but published on our Farcebook page) weapon!

In non-racing news, I’m getting a new garage. In the last two weeks my old shack has been demolished and removed, concrete pumped, building and roof erected, and electrical installed. Some roofing, hanging the doors, and parking concrete will complete the project. This will allow me to house the “nice” car, as well as a project car, and a bunch of bikes. The additional concrete will be used for additional parking and parts car storage.

Knowing an increase in capacity is forthcoming, I have already obtained enough vehicles to surpass the additional space. I picked up a rusty but straight Corolla FX which is wimpy, carbureted, with disposable brakes and suspension, but has some body and interior parts that will be useful. Then in exchange for deliver of a giant old V8, an AE82.net fellow gave me an FX16 GTS, which looks like a good candidate to receive all the best parts from the three hatches.

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Hotwheels Custom 56 Ford Coca Cola Van

12:49 AM
Just concluded in the Creepsterz Custom competition for the month of Jan/Feb 2013 contest.
Not bad for the result as end up 2nd placing overall for the staring of the year 2013.
The casting are Hotwheels 56 Ford. The works are cut out and installed all the doors opening includes the rear door.






The work in progress before completion


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So We Did This Race

5:54 AM
OK, it's the new year and we're excited about the new racing season and new projects. Dusting off the blog I realize there's a bit of a back log of posts to work on, namely the September 2012, 24 Hours Of Lemons at Thunderhill.

Mostly I needed an excuse to post this photo.
We hadn't been to Thunderhill since 2010. Personally it's a favorite track where I've had a lot of seat time, and I usually have few driving errors there. I was looking forward to seeing the MRolla perform there with the long fast front straight and several other high speed sections.


The only significant change to the car was the spiffy little kick-down lever we rigged up for the rear automatic transmission. Readers may recall that combined manual and automatic shifting dynamics are one of the more complex, interesting problems with the twin-engine MRolla. After too much thought and not enough testing we had settled on a static kick-down cable position that left us wanting more RPM on some steep track sections. For this race we rigged a simple bicycle brake lever mounted to the manual shift lever, and connected to the automatic kick-down cable, allowing us to grab another thousand RPM when we felt a little greedy. On track this worked great and gave us noticeably improved acceleration and climbing.

Unfortunately the rear engine was not up to the task of the additional RPMs. It puked oil and coolant from the seals and head gasket before the two hour mark. We opted to finish the day on the front engine only. We were out of any serious competition, but the car was handling great and front engine running like a top. At the end of day one we decided to just finish the race on one engine and start drinking rather than attempt any overnight mechanical heroics.

Image from www.murileemartin.com.

There were no other mechanical problems during the race and we placed a surprising 56 out of 166. I was impressed with how stable the MRolla was as a front wheel drive. I think much of the stability I had attributed to the all-wheel-drive is actually a characteristic of the nearly even weight distribution.

And Will did this. Image from murileemartin.com.

Oh yeah, and Joe/Bow/Randal ran the Snowspeeder. Finished 11th. Really it was the Snowspeeder's best finish ever, given the large, competitive field of cars. It placed 9th at ORP 2011, but that was against only 37 cars.



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Work In Progress Custom Hotwheels JUN Lancer Evolution X

7:25 PM
Another custom Hotwheels Mitsubishi Lancer in the line, known as JUN Evo in Japan
and one of my favorite custom Evo X car.
here's the WIP as shown below.

sample pictures are courtesy from auto otaku.com

And the casting are from Hotwheels 1/64 scales Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
 The end rear spoiler cut off, some sanding applies to even the trunk surface.
 Next, scratch built custom GT wing, measured and place the frames in the holes which have been drilled.
 After the original paint stripped, fresh new primer coat and white spray paint applies.

 And some masking work on the green stripes, the pictures below are the finish coat.

Thanks for looking, will upload the complete custom JUN EVO later.

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