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I thought the new tool 57 Chevy dissappeared when they moved production from Mexico to China. The last new tool 57 Chevy was the Coca Cola version and the one with the pink and white 2 door post car on the box art, both from 1998.

Nice work so far James.

Okay, I read about the engines at the link and they do work...except for the turbos wich are dummys without rotors.

Yes it does...it looks very good...I just thought I would give out the information if anyone want a 1:25 scale NTC 400

Great work Pavel. Regarding the NTC 400, you could have used the dual turbo NTC 475 from the Revell AG Peterbilt 359, Kenworth K100 or T600 and leave out one of the turbos and you will have a 1:25th scale NTC 400.

The Potvin blower setups are for the Chevys but you could use it on the Hemi if you want to, but the intake manifold would probably not fit on the Hemi so most likely it has to be modified, the tubes could also be too short. Otherwise the Hemi comes with a regular blower setup.

I believe Melbourne Model Truck Accessories http://mmtaer.webs.com/truckparts.htm is out of business, I have bought from them once and they had nice products but when I tried to order again about a year ago I didn't get any response and I tried several times.

If we go by that almost all Revell AG trucks must originally have been U.S. kits or designed in the U.S., all the versions of the Peterbilt 359's, Marmon's, Kenworth K100's W900's and T600's and some of the trailers issued by Revell AG are 1:25th scale. To my knowledge the only trucks from Revell AG issued by Revell US was the Peterbilt 359 "Will Do" Wrecker issued 2013-14 and now the Kenworth W900 Wrecker.

Nice work!!

The engines has dual turbochargers, intercoolers and superchargers so it's a bit busy and kind of overkill...it's probably possible to have this kind of setup on a real engine but these are most likely fake and don't work as it's a movie car, they are just there to look cool. The War Rig looks to have two supercharged engines too but I belive the original diesel is still there and drives the truck as black diesel smoke comes out of the the stacks on some places in the movie. I remember lots of the cars in the old Mad Max movies that had different carburator, injector and blower setups screwed on to the top of the hoods and was non working.

I belive Snake pulled your chain a bit I have never seen any Dodge 'Cuda's either...only Plymouth's. You are on to a good start anyway and I will follow your progress with interest.

They have missed one of the most important parts of the engine...the oil pump, all Mopar B and RB engines has the oil pump in the outside of the block low on the drivers side and the mount for the oil filter is also the end cover of the oil pump. The oil pump is the part shown in white on this picture.

If you are going to build a period correct dragster from the 60's the engine block would be cast iron, some racers did paint them but the cast iron engine blocks were short lived in the Nitro cars as they couldn't be that easily repaired if you threw out a rod, and many didn't bother to paint the blocks...so what color you choose or if you leave it bare is up to you. Aluminum Hemi's for Nitro racing didn't come until the early 70's, Keith Black did his 426 based version in 1974 as Greg stated and Donovan did their 392 based 417 in 1971...before that they used stock cast iron blocks as stated. The aluminum engines are bare and I would maybe use an aluminum metalizer paint of some kind, or one of Alclad 2's aluminum finishes, their website http://alclad2.com/

Nice work Sean.

As Jesse says, these Top Fuel Dragsters are not that hard to build if you do them straight out of box...it's when it comes to correcting things to make them accurate for today it gets a bit harder as it involves some modification of parts and some scratch building...and if you decide to detail, plumb the fuel system and wire up the ignition system you have to know what you are doing to get the right look. But the model kit itself isn't that hard at all and you can allways get a couple of them, build one for practice and do the others when you feel up to the challenge...a bit like learning by doing.

Another hurdle is accuracy. How accurate do you want your build to be as the Bernstein and Schumacher dragster kits were way out of date even for the time they came out. They needs lots of work to be up to date, mostly the engine wich needs a lot, new set back 14-71 blower, new MSD Pro Mag 44 magnetos, new fuel pumps, new valve covers with covers over the spark plugs and some other stuff. The rest of the car need a new 3 element rear wing, a new one piece front wing, a head protection shield and new wheels. If Revell had done all necessary updates back in 2002 when these two kits were new they would have been nearly accurate even for today 13 years later...but unfortunately they didn't.

It works for me too.

If you are looking for pictures of early 90's nitro engines you can tell if they are early by wich type of magnetos they have, the large MSD Pro Mag 44's werent used until about 1996-97 before that they used smaller Mallory Supermags. The fuel system was also changed from dual Enderle style fuel pumps to the Sid Waterman Bertha style pumps they use today in the mid 90's.

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The old bad Monogram 69 Camaro kit is 1:24th scale and the later 90's Revell kit is 1:25th scale and that's the easiest way to see the difference. I think I have read somewhere that the Revell 69 Camaro (wich is a very good kit by the way) has it's roots in the old Monogram large 1:12th scale kit and was downsized to 1:25th scale when it was tooled up in the 90's...I could be wrong but I think it has gone through my head sometime.

Very nice work Tyrone, I'm amazed!

The engine options in the Polar Lights Ford Talladegas and Mercury Cyclones are a FE 427 wedge and a Boss 429 "semi hemi", but no 427 SOHC as it wasn't allowed for NASCAR competition.

Great build of one of my favourite cars.

Me neither, nothing at all until the stuff arrived some weeks after I ordered.

Just for the record, Tyrone Malone did not build the Defiance, he bought it from the original builder Jerald McBee from Oregon back in the early 80's. Before Malone bought it and painted it pink it was brown with yellow, red and white stripes.