The USCP resin engine kit is excellent, and is the engine Hasegawa should have included in the styrene kit. I cut off the ram tubes and plenum chamber and replaced it all with venturi stacks from Model Car Garage. The fuel injection tubes are made from 0.014"clear fishing line, an idea I wish I had thought of sooner! I would have used it a lot more in the past.
The 4-cylinder distributor comes from Morgan Automotive Detail and replaces the excellent USCP unit. I was just too lazy to drill out the distributor for individual wires.
The engine kit includes the inner fenders and the panel above the radiator, as well as battery, brake master, clutch fluid bottle and a few other underhood bits.The clear fuse panel cover is an interesting touch (not installed yet in the pictures).
One issue I should mention with the USCP kit: You need to leave the radiator and bulkhead out until after you have put in the 3-piece grille, because this goes in from behind the body panel, and you'll never get the grille in otherwise.
The tube linking the shock towers is a piece of 2 mm brass tube, bent and with the ends crushed.
The stance looks good with Minilites from Scale Production, with wider tires in back. It is possible I could have lowered it a bit but I think it will look fine as is; the tires fill the fenders quite nicely and lowering it would turn it into a bit of a caricature.
The Hasegawa kit is very detailed. The chrome strip around the body, which most of us would normally do with Bare Metal Foil or a Molotow pen, is made up of 10 chrome bits where trimming the bit off the sprue leads to a bit of black plastic that can show if you're not very careful.
The tail lights are made up of 4 pieces each, two of them quite small.
The resin estate body from ARM is excellent in that the bits from the Hasegawa kit all fit well.
There are a total of 8 flat black grille inserts that are individually glued in place.
Final assembly looms large! Just some fabrication of side windows, and the interior still to build. Stay tuned!
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