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Yes it's slightly surreal, I imagine a neighbourhood where everyone has one, in a different colour!

Looks like yours will be stronger than the real ones! I love 917s but they were no place to have an accident! Brilliant brass work.

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That makes 8 where I come from!

The Revell Orange Crate is the best kit ever, closely followed by their Beatnik Bandit. Most Tamiya kits have good detail. The AMT Munster Koach has risible detail and is utterly wonderful!

As I PMd to Harry, this car was on our UK TV programmes Fifth Gear (it caught fire) and Top Gear (the floor came loose and there was a problem with the fuel injection). At the press launch part of the front suspension came loose and the car veered off the road, and at the Goodwood festival of speed the throttle stuck open. Thanks Harry

Hi Jason Thanks, now I get it. We found that reinforced silicon hose worked fine up to 16/18 psi (having checked my notes), as long as the clamps were properly tight. I never used any more boost that and I never had any problems with it, although after one full season racing and road use the turbo itself (Garret T03) needed a rebuild! I did used to get about 25 or more mpg in reasonably gentle open road use, mayb 8 or 10 when racing.

Yes Ace exactly. Serially two stage boost works fine, but in parallel it cancels itself out. Shiny happy pipes for no reason! I still maintain the blower in that setup would prevent the turbo(s) from delivering anything. But we'll be able to show that because to try it out might dirty the chrome!

On a 2002 turbo (as with most turbo setups) the pressurised air from the turbo goes to the plenum chamber (on mine, via an intercooler) and is mixed with the fuel and on into the inlet manifold pipes. I agree about the old hose! we used what we had and it wasn't good enough hence the new silicon hose which fixed it. Thanks Randy for clearly illustrating what I was trying to get across!

I agree with Ace - when I started racing my 2002 turbo I had big problems with the ducting from the t/c to the plenum chamber using some old hose we found - under boost, maybe .8 bar, it would find any weak spot and open it up and all the boost was gone, no matter which way the tubing was pointing. So that big old bugcatcher would actually become a bug deflector! Silicon hose fixed my problem, but the Camaro is obviously just for show! I also missed the obvious, that the air from the scoop feeds into the turbos - but it looks like the air from the turbos goes up and in above the blower too! So that would still go back out of the bugcatcher. Or if it is fed back under the blower then the turbo might stall depending on how much boost the blower makes as against the turbo In fact at low reves the blower will blow air into the turbo, so the turbo might never be able to overcome that and may never spool up at all!

I was a bit harsh! Moon disks on Bonneville cars make sense, and the simple caps that keep your hubs and wheel nuts free from dirt. Not so the fake alloy type that don't line up with the holes in the wheel behind so they don't fool anyone and reduce the cool air to the brakes, and unless they're held on with cable ties they fall off at the first tight bend: They're too much to my mind, but I'll shut up now as I don't think a rant about hubcaps is what this thread is about!

That's just silly! Like hair extensions and hubcaps...

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Oops Sorry my internet explorer software had a bit of a turn so I have done a few of the same post. Kind of in keeping with the theme!

Too much was never enough for EJ Potter! V8 bike, jet bike, Allison tractor, Allison '57 Plymouth: http://thekneeslider.com/e-j-potter-the-michigan-madman-r-i-p/

That's a labour of love, The sides of the front opening need to slope outwards towards the bottom (I guess you know that!) but the rest is very close, keep up the good work!

I am missing one valve cover though I presume the missing valve cover has now reappeared...?!

Good man! Nothing sounds as good as vinyl except for live shows of course. And all our hundreds of LPs are in alphabetical order, but not the singles 'cos there are too many of them! I know people who copied all their vinyl onto the 'indestructible' CD then lost most of the music as the CDs self-destructed in that horrible digital way. So what irks me today and every day is our kids who play records then don't put them back or worse, put them back in the wrong sleeve! But at least they get played.

This side of the pond we avoid the issue because to us they are transfers, it's difficult to pronounce that more than one way! But I like to read about decals, and I've even got used to 'shooting' paint as a way of putting colour on!

Hi Amanda Does this model have an engine? The body looks good, at least you are actively modelling, unlike me for the foreseeable future!

Fair enough, that's what they are. My point is that some words aren't very logical but have become so commonly accepted that they make sense anyway - 'dropping the clutch', and using the 'correct' word sometimes sounds odd - 'the Hurst Olds did another smokeout'?

I mostly agree - Monogram make models, we build them. But Gerald Wingrove and Kennb make models as well, although that's called scratchbuilding! Now I think I'll go and build a sandwich...

I'd have to go for the windscreen wiper package! PM sent.

Not a dragster either, this one was supposed to go round corners too! Built to compete with the Silver Arrows Mercedes and Auto Union GP cars in 1935, even Nuvolari couldn't make it work. 2 supercharged twin overhead cam straight eights, both driving the rear wheels via a central diff and 2 propshafts. 540 bhp. One did record a flying 1/4 mile at 208mph but altogether two wasn't better than one this time!

That's lovely! Beautiful artwork!