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Old 2008.10.05, 03:38 PM   #1
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My Custom Gumball 3000 Enzo

For your pleasure (and mine), my new custom Enzo Ferrari in 2007 Gumball 3000 Rally dress.

Last week I received a new Firelap 2.0 with a white Enzo body, and this past Friday I had a chance to race it. This was my first race ever, and of course I came in last, but the little Enzo did fair pretty well for itself.

This weekend, after I cleaned it up,buffed out some of the scratches and race damage, I thought it would be cool to dress it up, so after looking at a few hundred pix of various Enzo's (99% of the red), I came across the pix of the Gumball 3000 race cars. The 2007 race had some pretty cool looking cars, including an Enzo (red of course), so I thought it would be cool to make a white one just like it.

So here are the results. In the process I also added some of the decals that the Firelap/iWaver body lacks like the Ferrari badge on the nose, the silver prancing horse and Ferrari name on the back. Except for those, all the Gumball specific sponsor decals are black and gold just like the original counterpart.










...and finally the original inspiration.



Hope you like it.
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Old 2008.10.05, 03:56 PM   #2
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... the chassis too...

I thought some of you might want to see what's "under the hood" so to speak...




Specs:

iWaver/Firelap 2.0 chassis & Electronics
Stock Front suspension
Atomic Stock/BB motor
Atomic rear damper
3Racing Medium H bar
3Racing aluminum motor mount
3Racing ball diff (inner tuner)
Yeah Racing bearings
Yeah Racing gold lock nuts
iWaver Blue anodized aluminum wheels
Team Orion 900HV batteries
Kyosho radial wide 20° tires on the rear
Kyosho radial narrow 30° tires on the front

As you can probably see in the pictures, the outside of the left side tires are pretty well worn (lots of hard right turns on the track).

Anyway, the race was a lot of fun, and although I lost the final race, this little thing put me in fourth place on the first 2 qualifying heats. After that it was about the lousy driver, not the car.
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Old 2008.10.05, 09:07 PM   #3
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that's pretty cool where did you get the decals?
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Old 2008.10.05, 09:54 PM   #4
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that's pretty cool where did you get the decals?
I made them myself. I searched the web for as many detailed images I could find. Some of the logos, like adidas, Ray-Ban, Mequiars, T-Mobile, etc. are fairly easy to find.

Others like the Gumball logo were a little hard to find with high enough resolution for printing at 600dpi, but whatever I couldn't find that was usable I ended up drawing or tracing in Adobe Illustrator.

Once I had everything, I had to scale everything using some photos for reference. I then printed everything on my Alps MD printer on "water slide" decal paper. The Alps printer is unique in that I can print using special dry transfer ribbons which, besides the standard CMYK colors, also come in white, silver, gold and other metallic colors. So it's uniquely suited for decal making.
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