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the zero flux hilux cage.
Super quick recap Just a heads up.
This is part number two if you want to see how we got here.
Go watch the first episode of the Dirty E30 Wagon Scale Drift project.
We've got a chassis and it drifts naked,
but it drifts.
Now it's time to slap on.
That scale as, body.
Let's get right into the action.
So how do you take
an a plastics wagon and get that wide body M3 treatment?
Well, just like you would convert the E30 touring in real life you turkey,
get yourself an M 30 body and cut those glorious box flares out of that.
A while back, I had bought a tamiya e30 m3 Yeager Maester body.
It came super damaged in shipping, had crease marks on the body and it was
scratched through the protective lexicon film on the roof and the hood.
It also had pre punched holes for body posts.
Come on, tamiya and boy, oh boy, was I super disappointed when I found out
the tamiya, a grill and light buckets aren't the same size as the plastics body.
Major major bummer.
But I wasn't going to let that let me down.
I cut those box flares out of there
and we were mocking up that dirty throw wide body in no time.
Shewww eee this is starting look, fire bros
that delicious M3 wide body on that dirty wagon e30 shameless plug.
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Here you can see a little demo on some thick lexan Usually,
the lexan on the sides of these RC bodies are much thinner
due to stretching during vacuum forming,
so you don't get these bowing areas as you see here.
On the example, I used a thumb tack to push holes through both layers.
Quick tip.
Measure of the holes on the body, then poke them on that
layer first, then use to thumbscrews.
Push through both layers to hold the panel in place
while you poke the rest of the holes through the two layers of flex
and prepping them for some K-pop R.C body kit screws.
Next, we
mount the body, as seen earlier, the chassis is already set up
and drifting fantastically,
so now is the perfect time to mount the body, making sure clearance
and fitment is optimal.
Got a stance this shOt out as proper as possible?
Yo can't have no monster truck in the front.
I got some amazing front body posts made by overdose.
These are hood pin style body posts.
They don't look like your dad's tired tamiya tt-01
They actually look like the real frickin deal.
They definitely force some serious ice slippage.
It's a solid $20 U.S. for a set.
Of course, I shook myself out of it and only bought one pair.
The rear will be mounted using the Suck My Cure, a magnetic body, cups
and some shoe goo.
Now, this wouldn't be a
capability build without some serious 3D printed parts, of course,
I had to add some flair, some accents to set the built off.
Of course, when scrolling the internet for dirty M30 wagon,
E30 builds.
I stumbled on this cherry
car created by Kystle Saleem, Kaisers
today, junior tuning company called LTO,
which is short for live to off road.
Their E30 kit is the bat assist Asiri that is ever Asiri.
Is that is that a thing?
They're a thing. No.
Obviously, the wide body, but also that sick wing on the back, those louvers
and that minty rear diffuser, all these needed to be modeled
and installed.
I got a package in the mail from monster parts
and all the way from Los Angles Man Los Angeles.
Squeeze a little juice, new thing that you use us a.
That's right all the way to here in the great
white north of Canada.
Jimmy, the owner
operator of Monster Parts, makes some super sick 3D printed parts
for the hobby scene from his crazy, awesome monster truck bodies
to the engine pokies for RC drag cars
dashboards to Ms Ti wheeled barrels,
this dude makes some of the coolest obscure custom parts.
If you want originality at your local drift, track.
Check out his selection of parts.
Find him on Instagram or on Facebook.
Message him there or send him an email and you'll hook you up.
Let's check out what's in this frickin box.
You can use a pen, whatever.
Oh, snap, oh no.
Looks like he'd be a bigger guy to it because I think gearguy send me a bunch of
steals for the Cletus McFarland build.
Man, look at these.
Oh, snap.
So check this out.
Let's get centered in here.
All right. So these are barrels.
So monster parts monster parts is making these barrels for MST
wheel inserts mst makes these kind of universal drift rims
and they come with a barrel and then you can get a bunch
of different inserts to go inside them and monster parts.
These things will look really low profile.
The tires will look really low profile in them, but that's kind of sick.
There's nothing cooler than steel is
on drift projects, so this is super sick.
Can't wait to put these either on the cleetus build or
even on some other build man because they're so sick.
Check them out.
Resin printing is so good.
There comes a time in every project where you just sit back
and look at your creation and either say, Damn,
that looks Swedish or you question your life's ambitions,
I kind of feel smack dab in the middle on this one.
It's everything I'd hoped it would be at this stage.
But will it live up to my internalized hype?
Can I round third base and stick it in for that home run?
So now the nerves set in painting lexan bodies
has never been my favorite part of the process and for good reason.
When I painted the E30, it was a great time.
I lived alone. I had a large space.
I took the time to reflect on my past painting experiences
and really try to embrace the failures.
Tried to audit my skills and laid down a don't be an idiot
and make the same mistakes twice.
Montre if you do want to have like of the ultimate success
painting complex embodies every time you mask
whatever you're going to paint next, you need to just make
sure make absolutely positively sure
that there is no color bleed on any of these handles.
Of course, two years pass and I just blow all that
out of my brain and prepare to curse myself.
Swear at myself and everything to the point of almost no return.
What did I do?
I used masking tape.
It blithering idiot. You idiots.
You idiot.
You idiots. You idiot. You idiot.
The E30 front end has a few complex lexan and folds that make up the front.
Cowl and headlight sections are used to mere masking tape
and try to get the cleanest lines possible.
Basically, as I rested my feet on a bottle of liquid mask,
did I shoot the process of me up and fixing it for hours only to leave
a few black smudges so perfectly ready
to totally mess up my white main coat?
You bet I didn't.
There's a point in a man's frustration where he just tunnel vision himself
into a world of pain
and maybe somewhere deep down inside him.
He realizes he.
And to add insult to injury,
I put the white top on a black tan
and sprayed a little toot of black on a side skirt.
Holy hell, do India do you idiot?
You idiots, you idiot.
So, guys, the project is still pretty wicked, it's a five footer.
Far from good, but good from far.
And I'm OK with that.
That's how we learn from our mistakes, even if I had to learn from them
a few times in a row, son of a bitch
. How can I learn from this?
How can we fix this in the future?
Well, I think I've completely converted to liquid mask on paint jobs.
That is the way.
Also, screw the poison that is to me, a polycarbonate spray paint.
Just screw it.
I should be using my airbrush, which is a whole new learning
curve that is sure to mess up future painting projects.
But at least they can lay it down inside the warmth of my tiny studio.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm just too hard on myself.
Cheers to beer boys already bought another body
using using the sounds of the car.
Guess what car it's going to be?
Keep up out.