Building the Last of the V8's. HELP MEH PLOX!

[Jarlaxle]

Went to the theater and watched Mad Max Fury Road the day before last and it stoked my nostalgia. What can I say other then I grew up on the Road Warrior, so I broke out the original and it got me to thinking about building a Ford Falcon V8 Interceptor.
Now I will never have the time, money or knowledge to do such a thing IRL, but thanks to the hard work of the fine folks at CCDA (you) forums I should be able to build one by this time next week. Currently I am busy reading the AAA Guide 2040 (Anarchist’s version) in between stuffing a hippie van full of essential supplies in anticipation of having to leave town due to having spotted a thriller zombie and a bunch of giant wasps battling it out on the upper end of a city. I am simply not dealing with that shit right now. This current character has made it to far (without save scumming NOT EVEN ONCE!!!1!) to go out like that so packing up and moving on.
So I said all that to say this: I should be able to find a new city with a garage and scrounge any remaining tools to build just about any vehicle I want and I want to build the Mad Max Interceptor. I am not very knowledgeable about building vehicles so I will need a from the ground up list of materials and a Special Olympics proof step by step guide on assembling it.
For all this your help will be greatly appreciated. Now, I understand for some of you that will not be enough, so to sweeten the deal whoever does the best job will win the noprize prize! That’s right, you hook me up with what I need and I’ll send to you, tax and postage not included, the awesomest prize to not exist! Void where prohibited, obs.

[dovla]

Well, the interceptor was basically a 4-seat coupe but there is no way to simulate the shortened section of the back seats (in the actual car they’re tiny). The simplest way would be to mod the existing cop car (they come with a V8 sometimes IIRC) by removing the back doors and installing boards instead, removing front seats and installing folding seats instead, removing the blue and red overhead lights. That’s pretty much that.

[Lexx]

Well, the interceptor was basically a 4-seat coupe but there is no way to simulate the shortened section of the back seats (in the actual car they’re tiny). The simplest way would be to mod the existing cop car (they come with a V8 sometimes IIRC) by removing the back doors and installing boards instead, removing front seats and installing folding seats instead, removing the blue and red overhead lights. That’s pretty much that.

WHAT A LOVELY CAR!

This is a great start. As for what you’ll need, start hitting up garages and houses with built in garages for welding goggles, duct tape, acetylene torches and welding torches and all the batteries you can grab. If you want to make it more like the Fury road interceptor, consider adding a cargo box to the where the trunk would be. For in-game functionality though I recommend adding some armour to the front so you can look cool whilst you mulch zombies left and right.

If you can grab the Under the hood skill book. Train it. Then take a hacksaw and start sawing up vehicles in your spare time. Good idea is to stock up a lot of food and water so you can fetch any roadworthy vehicles and scrap them in one place. This gives you necessary parts to play with. And skill increases. Though the new skill system means this will take longer to level up doing so. So if possible search and hunt for more mechanics books in libraries, mansions and such. That’s the fastest way.

And do post your deathmobile results. I have a mind to build one of those spiked war vehicles from the gang with the digger arm that attacked them. Fantastic film. Going to see it again this weekend.

Best of luck scavenging!

[dovla]

If you want to make it more like the Fury road interceptor, consider adding a cargo box to the where the trunk would be.

Ah, very true this. I guess removing the trunk doors and perhaps even the whole back row of frames would make it more like the Interceptor too. Or better yet, remove trunk doors, move the trunks in their space and install rear windshields where the trunks were.

I went ahead and debugged a police car and some parts to see how it works. Decided to add a row of frames and quarterpannels to the front to elongate the hood.

[Lexx]

Have fun with your first foray into motorized death vehicles! Spiked plating and armour plating are also great additions if you have the materials, skill and time and tools to fabricate them. I usually wind up sticking plating and spikes to an RV and turn it into my white trash post apocalypse home on the road.

Looks like a fun ride.

[Jarlaxle]

Thanks for the great info guys. Found two police cars with V8’s and got them back to base. Gathering supplies and reading mechanical mastery. Will update with pics and final product.
Side question, anyone know of an easy to use free screen grab program?

[TheWumpus]

[quote=“Jarlaxle, post:6, topic:9688”]Thanks for the great info guys. Found two police cars with V8’s and got them back to base. Gathering supplies and reading mechanical mastery. Will update with pics and final product.
Side question, anyone know of an easy to use free screen grab program?[/quote]

Print Screen + Paint.

1. Print Screen.
2. Open Paint.
3. Ctrl + V
4. Trim to desired size.
5. ???
6. Profit.

In all seriousness though I like GIMP (GNU Image Manipulator Program). It’s open source, completely free, has some really powerful features (I know almost nothing about most of them but I’m slowly learning), and can be found…

Here: http://www.gimp.org/
Please note that you want to DL from their website direct as SourceForge has been playing sneaky buggers with the download package.

And here’s how to grab a screen cap in GIMP: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2010/01/taking-a-screen-shot-using-gimp.html

[chevil]

If you are using a computer running windows 7 or newer then it has snipping tool. Try it out it is super convenient and surprisingly small number of people know of its existence.

[Steelmaniac]

If you want to build the Pursuit Special V8,you’ll need a large displacement V8 along with a car that is quite different than most of the cars you find in CDDA.

if you dont know it’s the one on the right

The gas tanks have to be placed way back while the rear axle is on the tile before last (there should also be boards there since muscle cars usually have very thick rear pillars 'cause they delicious as fuck). If you want the one from Mad Max 1, put two seats , if you want the one from Mad Max 2, put a box in place of the passenger seat and att extra gas tanks. Find some low size wheels (15" or less) and you’ll be pretty much set.

[Jarlaxle]

[quote=“Jarlaxle, post:6, topic:9688”]-snip-

In all seriousness though I like GIMP (GNU Image Manipulator Program). It’s open source, completely free, has some really powerful features (I know almost nothing about most of them but I’m slowly learning), and can be found…[/quote]

Thanks, I think this is what I’m looking for. It’s amazing how hard it is to find a good free program without also downloading 15 other things that I didn’t want but got tacked on.

[quote=“Steelmaniac, post:9, topic:9688”]If you want to build the Pursuit Special V8,you’ll need a large displacement V8 along with a car that is quite different than most of the cars you find in CDDA.

if you dont know it’s the one on the right

The gas tanks have to be placed way back while the rear axle is on the tile before last (there should also be boards there since muscle cars usually have very thick rear pillars 'cause they delicious as fuck). If you want the one from Mad Max 1, put two seats , if you want the one from Mad Max 2, put a box in place of the passenger seat and att extra gas tanks. Find some low size wheels (15" or less) and you’ll be pretty much set.[/quote]

Okay yeah, now that’s more like it. Special Olympic proof instructions please sah?

[DeWolf]

If you are using a computer running windows 7 or newer then it has snipping tool. Try it out it is super convenient and surprisingly small number of people know of its existence.

Snipping? More or less what is it for.

[Steelmaniac]

Okay yeah, now that’s more like it. Special Olympic proof instructions please sah?

Aight, here it comes.

[Jarlaxle]

[quote=“Jarlaxle, post:10, topic:9688”]Okay yeah, now that’s more like it. Special Olympic proof instructions please sah?

Aight, here it comes.

Yeah man! NoPrize is in the mail.

[chevil]

[quote=“chevil, post:8, topic:9688”]If you are using a computer running windows 7 or newer then it has snipping tool. Try it out it is super convenient and surprisingly small number of people know of its existence.

Snipping? More or less what is it for.[/quote]
Taking screenshots. Just try it you will like it.

[Jarlaxle]

Small update for anyone interested. Moved all items and a police car to a fire station. Kept getting interrupted in old base so now I should be good to go.
Found a cop car with a 7.25 liter V8 engine so gotta find welder and than time to begin.