Schteve Hammann...

[Brandon]

You are a madman... I forgot how many incredible crazy brain farts you've had over the years, and your gallery posts jogged quite a few memories and smiles... you are the maestro of the "Li'l" style and chopping things up. Awesome. Thanks for taking the time to post those...

[stevehammann]

Thanks Brandon,

I've always drawn inspiration from from all the talent on this site. Haven't been around much or built any plastic in the last few years because general life and full sized projects have supplanted the 1/24 scale toys but i have plenty of fodder left in the hobby room for when I get the itch again. I'll probably find some more pics to upload. Right now I am scrambling to consolidate all of my old external hard drives and jump drives because a brain TURD updating my laptop to Windows 10 wiped out my main backup 2TB external hard drive.

Until then, here is what my current focus is on. Much like Brandon, I can't help but have multiple projects at once....

1965 ElCamino my son Joe and I are building for me to drag race.

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272" rear engine slip joint twin turbo LS2 Top Dragster that Joe will drag race.



1966 Shortbed For my wife.

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And then there is the occasional recycle project like this coat hanger at the shop....

[stevehammann]

Just ran across this old thread and thought I'd do a little updating. This is the result of some weight shaving and increased horse power. We only got it out once this year and went down to LS Fest again. The car ran well even though the weather was horrible with high temps and high humidity. We still managed to run our personal best of 10.66 @124.95 MPH with fairly fat jetting and backed it up with another identical pass.



My grandson Wes got to come with us for the first time and we had a blast.



On another note, we found out that we had the BADDEST golf cart on the property thanks to the 420cc engine Joe swapped out at last years LS Fest. My Grandson Weslee (we call him "Buddy") and I were out on a cruise to cool down a little because it was so hot. We stopped to look at something at the manufacturers midway and two guys who obviously had been enjoying some adult libations rolled up on us in their golf cart and asked if we wanted to race. They said they had been following us around and wondered what we had in the cart because it sounds so mean. They wanted to drag race for 100 feet and wanted a couple of cart lengths head start for a dollar. I asked Buddy if we should and he agreed. We lined them up and had a by stander flag us off. I nailed it and within one cart length of them moving, Buddy and I had already caught them and were pulling away when I slowed down for some pedestrians that had no idea what they were walking into. The guys paid up the dollar bet and I figured we were done.

The next day they came by our pits and admitted they had raced 18 other carts and won them all which made us the king of the hill with one pass, LOL. Then they said they were coming back next year with a Polaris powered golf cart and they would come looking for us. Guess we may have to step up our game just in case.







Any fans on here of Arrested Development?

[stevehammann]

We wanted to eliminate the alternator and ad an electric water pump, so we stepped up to a 16 volt battery this year.



We had a perfectly good 12 volt battery left over so the golf cart got an upgrade.



Since we needed a way to cool the car down while we charged the 16 volt battery between rounds, I came up with this.
It is a 12 volt power tap that only hooks up to the water pump and radiator fans.



Connection on the car is this pigtail which is wired to the cold side of the disconnect switch so it does not back feed into the 16 volt hot side of the switch.
Then we just use a heavy duty extension cord with two male ends to make the connection. It only takes about 5 minutes with the engine off to cool it back down to 100 degrees.

[stevehammann]

Well, since I've gone this far, I may as well show you another ongoing project. The tow rig we use is a 1998 G30 Short Bus. It has a 6.5L Turbo Diesel with a straight pipe and we have turned up the wick on the turbo. We just can't leave anything alone, LOL. Like everything else in life, it is a work in progress.



Even though it shares most mechanicals of a normal G30 series truck, because it started life as a cab and chassis, it has a completely different frame so Joe built a stump puller of a trailer hitch so we can drag 10,000 pounds of trailer, tools, and race car down the highway at 70 MPH.



And of course we had to letter it up so we "roadkilled" it for the Hot Rod Magazine Zip Tie Drags and we also added the "DOT numbers" and "Not For Borrow" instead of Not For Hire to match the other lettering that came on the bus.



After we yanked all the passenger seats out and a good scrubbing to get various stains out of the floor, we laid new vinyl on the floor and built bunk beds in there for over night stays at the track.

[kabdriver]

Haha, that licence plate on the golf kart 😂

It's really cool to see these 1:1 projects of yours Steve - thanks for sharing! That bus is bitchin'! They all are, actually!

[flounder]

Liken' that short bed from way back, Steve. What's the progress?

[stevehammann]

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GGRRRRrrrr, Pissbucket is allowing access again, but very limited.

[Brandon]

that is all pretty cool. The golf cart is awesome.

[stevehammann]

Flounder asked for an update on the wifes truck, so here is a short version....

I bought this wrecked '99 Siverado because it had a nice 4.8 Liter LS and 4L60 trans to graft into the '66.
It was hit hard in the passenger side front and shortend up the passenger wheelbase 10 inches. Luckily
the motor mounts broke and let the engine float where it needed to go.



When we started getting into the resto, we realized early on that this truck needed a good acid dipping.



We blasted the frame with aluminum oxide which works great but you need a high dollar respirator to use it.



We new the cab would be swiss cheese after the acid dip, so we built this rotisserie to hang the cab on for
5 axis access and installed a bunch of x braces to keep the cab square when we cut out the floor.



The good thing about acid dipping is, it shows you all the bad spots you will have to repair.
The BAD thing about acid dipping is, it shows you all the bad spots you will have to repair, LOL.



After acid dipping, the cab is coated with a temporary sealer so it does not immediately start rusting.



For the most part, the sealer works as long as it does not get wet.



These last two images may disappear because they are still hosted by pee Bucket.
The rear cab panel was nearly rotted in half. This is the only panel that is not
repopped for these trucks so we had to build it from scratch in 5 different pieces
and weld them all together.



Here is the cab with body work finished and ready for primer sealer.

[flounder]

Wow. What a save. That was a holy mess. Thanks for the update, Steve.