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I believe those 10 spokes are in the last issues of the old 1966 Mustang HT and they are in the recently issued 1966 Fastback wich was based on the HT and this kit is based on. I might get the Shelby myself, but not for that reason.

Yes you can't compare Dodge and Plymouth that way as Dodge tends to have a slightly longer wheelbase than Plymouth. Some examples are the Dart/Barracuda A-body, 3 inches difference and the Dart is longer, Challenger/'Cuda, same E-body platform but the Challenger has 2 inch longer wheelbase, the B-body Dodge Charger and Plymouth GTX/Roadrunner has a difference in wheelbase of 1 inch and the Charger is longer. Likewise for Ford and Mercury, the Mercury Cougar has longer wheelbase than the Ford Mustang even tho' they share the platform, difference 3 inches.

I agree, if we didn't have the old AMT kits we wouldn't have anything at all. The truck model market is too narrow for Round 2 to retool all old truck kits and still make money of them, keep in mind that many of them were developed and first issued in the early 70's (first AMT truck kit was the Peterbilt 359 California Hauler in 1969) so I'm affraid we have to work with what we have. Round 2 did retool one tho', it was a truck kit where the tooling was modified to another kit and it couldn't be done anymore. This kit is the International CO4070A originally done by ERTL back in 1973, so Round 2 back engineered the kit from an old original kit, did some modifying to get it even better and issued a totally new tooling kit of that truck in 2021 and it's very nice. The original CO4070A tool was modified to the International Transtar II CO4070B in 1976 and that tool wasn't among the tooling Round 2 got when they bought the plastic kit tooling from Tomy who still owns the ERTL brand, so it might still be with them, it has to be around somewhere because AMT/ERTL issued that kit as late as 1996. Well back to the original programming. 😉

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Yes it's quite complicated, here is how it goes together if you have the AMT original kits. There are torsion bar sets on the aftermarket and they are based on the original AMT parts, but the suspension mounts for the axles are allready attached to the axles and makes it a bit easier to do. This is one set from Auslowe.

The AMT Kenworth W925 (and the K123) was first issued back in 1971, so it was quite old when I built mine back in 1979-ish (Matchbox era), I don't have any pictures of it tho'. The early issues of the kits had torsion bar rear suspension but it was changed after a while, most likely for the second run of the kits, it was changed to the walking beam they still have today. So if you think the walking beam and axles were fiddly to put together you should try the torsion bars, they were really fiddly so that's why they changed. A fun thing is that the W925 had the correct suspension when the kit first came out with the torsion bar suspension as the chassis designation *25 stands for torsion bars, so now when the suspension is changed to walking beam it should have W923 chassis designation. The K123 had wrong chassis designation when it first came out as it also had torsion bar suspension and should have been K125, but it's correct now as the *23 chassis designation is for most all dual drive suspensions including air ride except the heavy spec walking beam and 6 rod wich were *24, and the torsion bars *25. The *21 was single drive and *22 was single drive with push or tag axle regardless of suspension type. Look forward to follow your build.

Yes it's the same kind of aftercooler and can maybe be modified to look like a Cat unit.

Don't worry Brenton, I will be 61 soon and I built one when I was a teenager and didn't have any big troubles with mine as far as I can recall. It was the Movin' On version and I still have it on my shelf.

Yes the 3406A was available with a water to air aftercooler and had an output of 425 HP. And yes you can add an aftercooler to the Revell engine, take off the intake manifold and replace it with...well the problem is that I don't think anyone on the aftermarket does a water to air aftercooler for the Cat 3406, it looks the same for the B block by the way. Here is how it looks on the A block.

When it comes to the Cat engine it depends on wich era it is, the 3406 in the Revell snap kits are an A block wich came 1973 and was made up to 1986 and was replaced with the B block 1987. The B block has the injection pump in the middle of the engine block lengthwise and the B anc C has it right at the front cover and a larger cone in front of it and the air compressor was mounted further up, otherwise they look pretty much the same. Another thing, the Revell engines doesn't have an aftercooler so it's a lower HP engine, the ones with aftercooler had up to 425 HP.

Looks great.

Nice build of the old ERTL trailer...because that's what it originally is. AMT had Fruehauf, Trailmobile, Loadcraft, Haulaway and Wilson trailers, no Great Dane wich were ERTL trailers.

Not a very exciting month, I have unbuilt kits of te ones I like in my stash already...several of them.

The KTA 19 is a huge engine as it's both long and tall, 19 litres displacement and up to 600 hp. And as Steve say, it's not that easy to get it to fit in the White-Freightliner kit.

Yes you will see an increase in price, the import tariffs falls on the importer/retailer who have to pay the tariff on their prices from the manufacturer in China or from whatever country they get the stuff from that Trump has put tariffs on, and the importer/retailer will forward their increased cost to the end customer who have to pay more for the product...that's how it works.

Just type in White Freightliner WFA or Freightliner FLA on google or any other search engine and you will get lots of pictures. The engine in the White-Freightliner kits is a Cummins NHC 250, a naturally aspirated Cummins 855 cui engine, transmission is a Fuller Roadranger. Here you can find some of the information you need on the engine, this is not exactly the same but it's a Cummins 855 cui engine and most of it is pretty much the same except for the turbo and aftercooler wich the NHC 250 doesn't have. https://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/model_magazine_articles/car_modeller/cm05_jan_1991_cummi/ Here is a typical brake system. https://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/model_magazine_articles/car_modeller/cm03_sept_1990_truc/ The White Freightliner has wedge brakes tho' and they are slightly different than the more modern S-cam brakes. Here is a search on this forum on brake systems and you can learn a bit there. Browse around on the modeltrucks25 fotki albums and you will get lots of information there, lots of instructions and other useful information. https://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/ And of course on this forum where there are lots of information.

The bank angle is important to get the engine to run good without inbalance and even firing, the most common is 90 degrees for V8's and 60 and 180 degrees for V6 and V12. For the V10's the optimal bank angle is 72 degrees for an even firing engine but there are 90 degree V10's like the Dodge V10 and I don't know how they solved the even firing problem with a 90 degree bank angle. Caterpillar cheated when they did the diesel 3408 and had a split journal crank where the big end of the rod pairs are not in line with eachother on the same crank pin and that way fooling the engine wich is 60 degree bank angle to believe it's a 90 degree engine and get even firing that way.

Nice work. These builds up to pretty nice models but they are by no means correct for what they are supposed to be as the chassis is all wrong for a Mopar NASCAR car.

No they didn't run that fast back then, I believe the 1/4 mile speed noted as the fastest were by Dom Lagana in 2017 at 338.35 mph and the second fastest was Tony Schumacher 337.58 mph back in 2005 wich was the National Record as I don't believe Dom Laganas was. This according to Draglist. But Brittany Force is not fastest in NHRA with her 341.59 mph, the fastest NHRA National speed record still belongs to Austin Prock in a Nitro Funny Car with 341.68 mph set last year at the Pomona Finals, the same speed as Bob Tasca III set in a Funny Car at the Bradenton, FL test and pro shootout sessions last year but that wasn't a NHRA sanctioned event so he did not get the record.

I have so many rims I like so I can't list them. Not much over 16 inches tho'

Yes I know how to do it, it just takes time. But I never heard the term English unit before, just standard for the inch and metric. I hope you don't think I don't appreciate your work because I really do...and the conversion bit is not a big deal, I'm used to it.

Yes the engine in the Revell Peterbilt and Kenworth snap kits are Cat 3406A engines with no water to air aftercooler, so it's lower HP engines but with the aftercooler they were available with power ratings up to 425 hp, the A model was also a pre combustion engine when it came in 1973 but the later A models was direct injection. As Ron says the most noticable difference between the A and B models are where the diesel injection pump is located on the engine as shown in the pictures, the C model wich is partly electronic also have the injection pump at the same location as the B and the final version of the 3406 the E model (there are no D model) is fully electronic and has no injection pump. The E model also has 3 rocker covers instead of 2 on the earlier A, B and C models and looks more like the later C15 that replaced the 3406, and most were air to air aftercooled, also known as intercooled, with the cooling element in front of the engine radiator.

Good work. Now I have to convert it to metric for it to make sence to me as I find fractions and decimals of inches very confusing.

Ohh I knew he had taken a brake for some reason but I did not know it was so bad.

I only did some orders with Jamie and his stuff was very nice, I did not know that it was so bad, I hope he will recover and I'll keep him and his family in my thoughts.