s2-g2 432 Posted February 18, 2018 Over a year ago I decided to start a Street Scorcher project after finishing a Sand Scorcher build. One night I popped two Street Rover rear wheels under a Sand Scorcher body and really liked the look. I posted in the What Have You Done Today forum a little, but never started a build thread. So, here I am doing just that. I settled on the M03 chassis for the build. I've done a bit over the last year - created a custom mid section for the M03 to stretch it to a 250mm wheelbase designed a mag-mounting system for the body designed custom front wheels and rear hub caps worked on a roof scoop modified my own Shapeways-printed Sand Scorcher engine for the M03 chassis. I'll go through the build step-by-step properly, but for today this was the look that got me motivated to start this build: S2 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Re-Bugged 10150 Posted February 19, 2018 I like that I’d like to do a Street Scorcher but I’m unsure where to start? looking forward to this 😃 Getting drawn to a Porsche too but not many options to run one around here, mostly rough ground. Then I saw this and the old grey matter fired up, 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
s2-g2 432 Posted March 27, 2018 So, after deciding I wanted to put Street Rover wheels under a Sand Scorcher body, I set about modifying the M03 chassis I had to fit the 250mm Scorcher wheelbase. I ended up making a new center section adapter to fit - that makes the wheelbase right about 248mm. I lucked out and got the new adapter right on my first try. The Shapeways printed adapter came out ok: And it fit (front to back, back to front, and straight inline) on the M03 chassis: Next up, making body mounts for the Scorcher body... Also this is around the time I started designing front wheels, rear hub caps, and playing around in FreeCAD with a new variation of my Sand Scorcher flat-4 engine (seen above) for the street machine... S2 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grastens 2795 Posted March 28, 2018 Nice visual of the chassis spacer in action Will be interested in seeing where this goes! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
s2-g2 432 Posted March 29, 2018 22 hours ago, Grastens said: Nice visual of the chassis spacer in action Thank you, sir! So, I had created another animation for my body-mount implementation. I have also been posting pictures from this build on my Instagram account and this is from there... I wanted the body mounts hidden - so, I went with some internal sleeve-type mounts in the back ...and magnets up front. I'm pretty happy with the result - and it seems to hold well while in action. S2 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Man1c M0nk3y 564 Posted March 29, 2018 Cool. I now want one! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
s2-g2 432 Posted March 30, 2018 On 3/29/2018 at 2:42 PM, Man1c M0nk3y said: Cool. I now want one! Get one! Ok... So I wanted wheels with a more vintage hubcap look. I decided I could create a custom cover for the Street Rover wheel on the back and a new complete wheel for the front. Both would have a hubcap that would snap into an access hole so I could get to the axle nut. Front wheel and cap... Rear wheel cover... Front and back with hub caps in place... And all painted up... S2 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grastens 2795 Posted March 31, 2018 What a difference the painted covers makes - it looks spectacular! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Granddad Stinky 975 Posted March 31, 2018 Following. 😁 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
s2-g2 432 Posted April 17, 2018 Ok... so my obsession with the Street Scorcher - other than the big fat rear tires - is the engine that will hang off the back. I've been spending a lot of time in FreeCAD modifying the original Sand Scorcher engine I made for Scorcher 32 (top of thread) The V1 model I mentioned a couple posts ago above came back from Shapeways and fit well, but I wasn't crazy about the uber long pipes I had designed... So, I cut them down a bit and glued some drywall anchor hardware to them to fatten them up... Then I painted that up and mounted it. About this time, I also decided on a two-tone gray for the body and painted that... But, the V1 motor just wasn't doing it for me, so I went back to FreeCAD. Bigger heads and new pipes - Rocket Tails - were the biggest changes for the V2 engine... I also started working on a mount that would screw to the M03 chassis with a tongue that the motor would fit on... Something to make mounting/positioning/securing easier. More on that next time. -S2 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grastens 2795 Posted April 17, 2018 The two-tone grey works well here - it makes for quite a classy car 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisRx718 4470 Posted April 18, 2018 Looks awesome. Will the final car have a gloss coat? I feel it deserves to be shiny! Look forward to the next update 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
s2-g2 432 Posted May 2, 2018 On 4/17/2018 at 8:04 PM, ChrisRx718 said: Looks awesome. Will the final car have a gloss coat? I feel it deserves to be shiny! Look forward to the next update Thank you! It actually has a pearl-coat finish. More on that soon! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
