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Re: American Racing Conversion Sprint Car

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Not much to report since the whole house has been sick minus myself. Really have been procrastinating lately. Did manage to swing up to the race fab shop to go over the tub. It's funny as I'm in there with this toy with a Prostock in the front and a Troyer sportsman in the rear. He said he never worked on a "race car" that small. But the man is an awesome fabricator. Said he'll try to fit it in the next couple of weeks. So I guess that allows me to finish my CE, rebuild my buddies Pemberton and possibly start cleaning up the parts for this project.

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Great thread so far John. Hopefully you can get the chassis deal worked out because that car needs a new life for sure!

It's funny that you posted the Moody Sprint Car plans, I was watching those for the 3 times they listed them, finally I hit the buy button...going to frame them up and put them on the workshop wall. Roy was a innovative man and the handful of time I raced at Monee he was always appreciative that we made the long trek. Sad that he is not with us anymore, he LOVED the sprint cars.

But...if you guys want to see if they have the hoods still, contact Greg Z. (DirtOval.com vintage forum) and see what he has left. Has anyone seen a Moody Electric sprint besides the one in the magazine?

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and the same user had some bodies they were selling...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rc-Sprint-Car-Bodies-/271384173903

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So another goodie came in for this car.
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So onto polishing. Question, should I install the RE RE transmission as it's all new in the packages or a 6 gear (w/ black idlers) out of the parts car????

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Can't leave anything alone.
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So the old trans here has the bearings and black idlers...thinking someone knew what they were doing. I didn't inspect it fully so don't know if the gears were filed or not. I think I'll steal the bearings and clean them up for the sprint car and use the Re Re parts in the Rogue case. Maybe the old trans will be used to update my old Caddy. Any thoughts on this?

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Are you planning to run the car?

If not then I think the aluminum case deserves Thorp 48p gears.

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I would love it to be a shelf Queen buti think I'm gonna have to run it. Lol.

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Missing the spline plate. Agh. Well now I'll have one incomplete old 6 gear transmission laying around.

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So my plate didn't line up perfectly to Chris' trans case. May have been my plate was a little off. Simple grinding fixed it. I love the tight tolerances. Can't wait to give it hell!!!
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Looks good, can't wait to get my trans case and wheels from Chris! Are you building a mid motor car? If not looks like you were blinded by the shiny aluminum!
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Lol. Yes definitely a mid motor car. I'm a picture posting whore anyways and purposely posted this pic on his transmission thread just to see how many would catch it.

So the car came with a "Lightened" motor plate. I wasn't too happy with some of the smaller holes. So I just redid it. I'm not completely happy with it, I'm not showing great results with the Easy Off. So to finish off the ano, I hit it with some sanding discs...120. Then I basically blocked with 100. I put a little polish on it for now but really need to get some finer grit sandpaper. Looks good from a distance. Pictured with original plate received with the car.
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I work on it here and there...mainly between PT and workcall or lunch. I'm also thinking of taking a break from polishing and organizing parts. I haven't decided if I should run short or wide front arms. I'm thinking about picking up some wide whites. I think I have enough white parts to put it together but I'm tempted at treating it to Re Re parts like the arm mounts in particular. Possibly the rear arms, castor blocks and spindles to start fresh. But we'll see.

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Fab guy called me up and got the tub bent and cut. Now I just have the task of not screwing up drilling the holes.
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Looks like the chassis came out really nice. :)

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Re: American Racing Conversion Sprint Car

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It's pretty close. Jesse usually works on repairing real race cars and not something this small. I can't wait to finish it and show him. He still doesn't understand what this is or how it becomes a sprint car. Lol

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