LHD Seven

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I usually start with the wheels and brakes on these reworked or fabricated Sevens, this one is no exception.
I milled these cross-drilled directional carbon rotors from raw stock I cast out of aluminum impregnated resin .

[JunkGTZ]

Oh, Boy! More seven fun from you! Looking forward to it.

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They are fun for me...
I milled a set of aluminum hubs for the front brakes. The parts at the bottom of the photo have been acid dipped to create the finish.

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The front hubs are assembled. Again acid was used to make the final finish.

The studs are the only thing I used from the kit and are a press in fit.

[MODEL A MODEL]

​Hello there! What form of acid are you using? -Don

[ScaleMaster]

Hydrochloric Don. It is very aggressive on aluminum. Extra caution needs to be used as it can get very hot and the fumes are extremely nasty.


These are the assembled front rotors/hubs.

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These are the raw machined parts for the rear hubs. Being similar to the fronts sped up the process of making them.

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And the finished assembled rear hubs, studs and rotors. No paint, just treated/raw materials.

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These four corners are ready to be bagged until final assembly of the car.

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I masked off the FORD lettering and filed off the "bolt detail" and drilled for the new hardware then textured the cam cover.

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The lettering was repainted after the final dark metallic gray color was applied.
(The texture looks a lot coarser in the photos than it actually is.)

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This is the steering rack from brass tube and sheet stock. The inner workings of it are made of rod and tubing.

Painted and assembled. The tie rod halves are pinned so the ends can pivot when the rack is slid side to side. I made the bellows by machining a master and casting them with rubber-like resin that was dyed black.

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The front control arms are cast in Zamac as the exact same parts for both sides so the sway bar receiver (on the upper arm) ends up being different from side to side instead of mirror imaged. So I filled them in and reshaped and drilled them to accept the sway bar.
Also the shocks snap onto the lower arms leaving the bottom of the shock eye open, not realistic but easy to assemble. To make it so I can install closed loop shock eyes I cut out the mount from the A-arm and drilled a hole to use hardware like the real cars. I added a brass section to beef up the parts before cut out the shock mount, and to make it look like the beefier optional part.
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[ScaleMotorcars]

Zamac . Thats a new one for me. Added to the sites dictionary.