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mamadoesn`tletme wrote:Found the shock towers

I did get your PM Jose.... I tried replying but just as I went to send it my computer crashed - it was quite a long message & had attached some pictures so kinda gave up

Good score on the shock towers - what are your plans for them? Are you intending to use them on a project? The front tower I believe is virtually the same as the 94 one, though I think the 94 production part is flat around the outside of bottom legs where as the WCS part is a continuous radius. The rear tower is of cause WCS specific but the part you have is the production part as differs to the one on my car - there is a radius to the inside of the cutout forming the 'legs' of the tower where as mine is a sharp square cut - also the two holes on mine are slightly larger & in a slightly different position.



Oh, & this week I have mostly been sticking on my spare pair of 'Red' wheel discs onto my one pair of original pink wheels....





I'm still not convinced as to what were the correct colour discs used on Masami's car, Red or Pink?



Pink dots used on Reggie's tribute/replica car (hope you don't mind me using your image Reggie)



Anybody out there know what was the actual colour of these? Obviously as they are flourescent the camera tends to lie when capturing the true colours.

Hmmm, your cars wheels with the dots ( isn't that the biggest pain in the a#$ cutting the dots!!) Look just like rno' s pic, I might have to change up.

Dan:he,he,that is Ok. No,I do not plan to do anything..I would not have time and/will to start this car from zero. I saw them in a shop, and just in case I bought them.
Haven`t you though about asking Hirosakasan directly about the wheel colors? He speaks English. Isn`t he working now in Yokomo?
Good job with the wheel dots

Charlie don't surf wrote:Hmmm, your cars wheels with the dots ( isn't that the biggest pain in the a#$ cutting the dots!!) Look just like rno' s pic, I might have to change up.

Well it wasn't too bad - I measured the wheels/ribs & drew out those guides & printed them onto the tracing paper, which makes the cutting out of the dots much easier

Yes, I agree (I think) that my 'test' wheels do bear a good resemblence to those on R-No's picture.... but on other pictures of Masami's car i'm not so sure ... but R-No's picture is also probably the most 'crisp' of the images i've seen.

Big problem I have is that I attempted to dye my white wheels last weekend - after a successfull test run with an old white AE wheel I took the plunge & stuck in my wheels - unfortunately I think I left them in for just that little bit too long and they've come out virtually red They are a lovely vibrant colour but unfortunately the wrong colour..... so it looks like i'm going to have to source another set of virgin white wheels .... Reggie, did you ever find that ratio/recipe from when you achieved a good match??

@ Jose' I suppose those towers would come in handy for raising a few $$s for future projects for you..... there's actually a front tower on ebay at the moment. Good idea for contacting Hirosakasan - there's probably a few questions i'd like to ask of him - especially with regard to the colours on the shell - like is the green metallic & are the coloured areas painted in flourecents?? By the way how are you? - did you move away from Japan in the end or are you still living there?

That's very impressive, you taking the time to cut out those wheel disks to fit the ribbed wheels. Great attention to detail!

Anybody out there know what was the actual colour of these? Obviously as they are flourescent the camera tends to lie when capturing the true colours.

The more I look at my pics and the more I think the dots are actually red rather than pink.
Regarding the body colors, yes the green is metallic. None of the colors are fluorescent. Just bright.
Hope this helps

Dan, I picked up your Email but have yet to reply sorry but yes I'd also go with red dots

R-NO wrote:

Anybody out there know what was the actual colour of these? Obviously as they are flourescent the camera tends to lie when capturing the true colours.

The more I look at my pics and the more I think the dots are actually red rather than pink.
Regarding the body colors, yes the green is metallic. None of the colors are fluorescent. Just bright.
Hope this helps

Arrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!

R-NO wrote:

Anybody out there know what was the actual colour of these? Obviously as they are flourescent the camera tends to lie when capturing the true colours.

The more I look at my pics and the more I think the dots are actually red rather than pink.
Regarding the body colors, yes the green is metallic. None of the colors are fluorescent. Just bright.
Hope this helps

Thanks for that info R-No.... its a great help - looks like i'm going to have to invest in some paint (I already had most of the colours but they were mostly flourescent ) Its good to have feedback from someone who has seen the original car in the flesh.

I think i'm going to stick with my red dots then.... just now its what to do with my wheels? I could just stick with what I have since little of the wheels are visible once the dots are stuck on.... I might even try to boil them in with some clothes whitener to see if that makes them fade a little?? Or just start again if I can find a second set

Matt, no worries - you must have e'mails coming out of your ears with all the parts/cars that you seem to be collecting judging by your blog

My intention with this build is not to create a true replica - more a tribute to Masami's winning car... so maybe i'm being too anal in some respects... my original car, it seems, has its own interesting history so I don't want to change too much chassis-wise from how I recieved it

My only problem at the moment is funding - with my recent un-planned break in work & now much reduced earnings might mean that spending on this project will have to stop for the time being

Charlie don't surf wrote:

R-NO wrote:

Anybody out there know what was the actual colour of these? Obviously as they are flourescent the camera tends to lie when capturing the true colours.

The more I look at my pics and the more I think the dots are actually red rather than pink.
Regarding the body colors, yes the green is metallic. None of the colors are fluorescent. Just bright.
Hope this helps

Arrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!

Sorry Reggie..... & I know just what a time consuming effort it is sticking on those dots

Now I have to find the red ones , too bad because I have more pink! Ah well, better to know! And I did get this for my build............................NIP. And soon that "other thing"

nice work on the wheel dot's dan, any some pic's of the whole buggy brother, can't you find any photo's of the original racer's baliston wcs? putting her back to that would be very cool.

GJW wrote:nice work on the wheel dot's dan, any some pic's of the whole buggy brother, can't you find any photo's of the original racer's baliston wcs? putting her back to that would be very cool.

Gary, yes the car is now in one peice.... but i'd like to finalise a couple of parts before 'unveiling' it so to speak - so watch this space

I'm afraid I have no idea what the car looked like or trim that it was running - i'm not even 100% sure the car ever raced at Basildon... How I recieved it is as far as I know how it was run, i.e with that box-art esque' shell (it did cross my mind that it may have been a promo car?) I know the name of the racer who had it since the 90s - but it is doubtfull he had it from new, but likely that he aquired it from someone who may have been of a World class standard. I love to obtain a full entry/car list.. it may narrow it down as to who may have driven it.

The wheels that I dyed came out too dark

The ribbed ones on the car I dyed next too original Yoke ones for comparison


Hopefully got some more white ones coming to have a second go at getting them nearer. Going to have to have a play around with some different colours/ratios to try & get the colour correct.

mate i think those original pink rims are very light/faded, the ribbed look closer to masami's surely dont they