Charger up

[TWINSET]

Overdone it with the projects again []

Got an HPI Charger shell for my Rage chassis

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[richytanimal]

Excellent!!! Love the big American shells[]

[Floyd]

Im glad Im not the only one to get rid of those silly looking lexan side pipes . Did the Cuda'neer give you any insperation for that ? It looks great , definately love your paint job . Kind of like the bigger brother to mine []lol ....

[Petrolhead]

i may have disagreed with you in the chat, but it looks just great! Colour is excellent!

[TWINSET]

Floyd, Cudaneer was a push, I'd had the shell for a while, but nothing to bolt it to.

I did have a Pro-Line Peterbilt reserved for the task, but it looked stupid, so the Charger got cut.

On yours, is the blower a seperate piece? Mine is molded into the hood and needs cutting off to remove - I woulda preferred the smooth hood on mine, dunno why HPI had to mess it all up.

As for the lexan pipes - GOTTA GO! they don't actually show pics on the HPI site with them on, musta learnt their lesson!

Allie; with age, comes experience - If I tell you something, it's law []

[Floyd]

Yup , mine is molded in as a part of the body too , but it is inset into the hood a little bit so you can cut it out and use the stock air ram that came with it too . The air ram was molded with the blower scoop so the Cuda body lets you go with either the blower look or the more stock look to it ...

[TWINSET]

Ah ok - yours looks like a simpler cut job than the charger one, the shape of the hood plug on mine was quite strange (not straight or symmetrical), and looked a pain in the butt to do, so I didn't

[Floyd]

Im suprised HPI didnt make it easier to cut it out on the Charger . Im kind of glad I didnt go with the Charger now , I allmost did . Definately going to be easier for me to stick that Parma Hemi in the Cuda than it would on the Charger . Once my camera recharges Ill get a closer pic of the hood so you can see the inset a little better . You can see it a little bit in the one pic there .

[TWINSET]

I can see it from the shape of the plug chap, the Charger one is a real stupid shape, that I couldn't see me cutting out right.

Also, the hood woulda had a funny shape outline in the middle of it, whereas the Cuda is at least symmetrical

The Charger plug doesn't act as anything else (yours is still a scoop of some descrtption, which I coulda lived with) so it woulda looked a bit funny

HPI only show one view without the blower, and it aint too easy to see the 'patch' in it;

Whereas the Cuda looks well passable;

[Floyd]

Ack! Yah , I see what your saying with the pics . Oh well , all in all you still have an extreamly great looking setup [] I still like your paint job over my stock Cuda green ( ok its actualy Tamiya's Park Green but looks close enough to the stock Cuda color ).

[west coast customiser]

if you added the mambo 40 series wheels and spinners that would look minted!!!!!

AMERICAN CARS +SPINNER = WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TWINSET]

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Originally posted by west coast customiser

if you added the mambo 40 series wheels and spinners that would look minted!!!!!

AMERICAN CARS +SPINNER = WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Get therapy []

Saw a 1:1 with spinners today, very wierd til you work out what's wrong

[Floyd]

Im with you on this Twinset . Its got to be a younger generation thing , that and those god awfull 22" and 24" wagon wheels all the little kiddies in the states seems to think looks good on thier cars . That has to be the ugliest thing Ive ever seen in my life , but thats just my own opinion , if its your thing and you like it , go for it . Just dont try and convince me it looks good :-) lol