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I blame this one on JC's thread in the general Section. Folks continue to post some really cool rides there.

My favorite Porsche has always been the early '70's 911 Carrera. Love the flared rear-end without any bolted on fender junk. I have a Fujimi 911 Carrera RS '74  in the stash that will combined with a Tamiya 911 GT2, after market engine, wheels/tires, seats  and whatever else I can throw at it to give me a classic 911 look with updated "guts".

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 The plan is to use the more modern chassis and suspenion of the Tamiya kit to update the 911.  Then we stuff a "Mad Mike" 911 flat six motor into the curbside Tamiya chassis.

The interior, inspired by the Singer cars, will be a combo of the two kits along with after market stuff.

The Fujimi kit is the Enthusiast Model re-released a few years ago. Pretty standard EM kit with a couple hundred parts and a ton of mold lines:)  The Tamiya chassis looks to be right on as far as wheel base goes.  Some triming of the chassis and redoing the wheel wells should get me close.

 

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Starting with the engine.

The Fujimi kit has a great motor that builds up nicely to represent this.....

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We want to 'Hot Rod' it to more like this......

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The Mad Mike motor is an actual 3D print, not a resin casting. The glue of choice is the same,  super glue. This engine is just a few well detailed parts....

 

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 I'll save the air cleaners for another project.  This engine does not come with a transaxle or exhaust.The throttle bodies will work great with the mechanical fuel injection system I want to build. The Fujimi kit will provide the Bosch F.I. pump and the transaxle.  I will make up a set of headers. 

 Here is a pic of the throttle bodies and linkage that I want.

 

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I am painting as I go on this one....red for the upper air channel....

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Parts for the linkage and bases for the velocity stacks...

 

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Fujimi Borsch F.I. pump is nice piece that just needs some details added and the shutoff and enrichment solenoids removed. Also making up the gears and belt for the drive system...

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Nice work - great looking engine. I do have a question, though, concerning the upper air channel you have painted red. A lot of the kit instructions say to paint it red, but I see a lot of engines with it in natural metal. The yellow car and engine behind the white car in your pictures above have them. What is the difference? In what color do they come from the factory?

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A great builder with great taste in cars.  This will be fun to watch Randy and I want to add to the fact that its so nice to see you back posting here.  The pump looks killer and when I looked at the engine I can't help but note that the "fan" in the shroud will look great in metal.  wink-wink.

Seriously though, nice to have you back.  Tim

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9 hours ago, SSNJim said:

I do have a question, though, concerning the upper air channel you have painted red. A lot of the kit instructions say to paint it red, but I see a lot of engines with it in natural metal. The yellow car and engine behind the white car in your pictures above have them.

The fan shrouds pictured above are natural (unpainted) fiberglass not metal. I’ve only had multi owner modified or repaired Porsches so mine have all been natural or black.  I would think factory color would vary from year to model. With the quality of Randy’s work, and the level of detail, I’d guess he has the correct color.

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2 hours ago, FredRPG said:

The fan shrouds pictured above are natural (unpainted) fiberglass not metal. I’ve only had multi owner modified or repaired Porsches so mine have all been natural or black.  I would think factory color would vary from year to model. With the quality of Randy’s work, and the level of detail, I’d guess he has the correct color.

I wasn't questioning whether he was correct. I just wanted to know why the variations in color. I've seen many a picture of 911 engines, and they vary in color. Never having seen a Porsche engine in person, I have no idea about them except what is shown in kit instructions. It just seemed strange to me that the top of a 911 engine would be red. I had no idea it was an upper air channel/fan shroud. Thanks for the material information - the pictures I referred to looked bronze-ish to me.

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2 hours ago, SSNJim said:

wasn't questioning whether he was correct. I just wanted to know why the variations in color. I've seen many a picture of 911 engines, and they vary in color. Never having seen a Porsche engine in person, I have no idea about them except what is shown in kit instructions. It just seemed strange to me that the top of a 911 engine would be red. I had no idea it was an upper air channel/fan shroud. Thanks for the material information - the pictures I referred to looked bronze-ish to me.

My apologies I was complimenting randy’s work not suggesting you were questioning it.  Now that I think about it maybe only the s cars had a red shroud, that’s what I meant about his work, there’s more chance randy is correct than I am. I love the cars and have had a few but I’m by no means an authority on them.  I do recall one of my early ones (‘70) having a green shroud, pretty sure that one was factory. And as a further bit of possible misinformation I think the colors were in the gel coat or resin, not painted.

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Hi Folks,

Trevor, Glad you're on board for this one!

Thank you nigel.

Kurt , Thanks, always enjoy your modeling adventures.

Sonny, I know I have the winning Lotto ticket right here for my Singer :)

Pat, Glad you like it Mr. Engine Man!  The linkages are some printers plate for the bell cranks, RB Motion tiny bolts/nuts/rod ends and some albion nickel silver tubing. 

Thank you Daniel !

J.C.  Appreciate the comment my friend.

Gareth, thank you for that.

Thank you David!

Codi,      Sure, send me down that rabbit hole :)  it does feel good to post something. I must say you continue to raise the bar with your efforts in the Drag Section.

Thank you Mike !

Steve,  appreciate you checking in on this one !

Fred,  Thank you for the info,  I'm jealous, never have owned one!!!

Jim,   Good questions and I just learned more good info.  Maybe that site considers all the air cooled years early, did they switch to water cooled after '89?

Digging thru ref. pics and I'm finding yellow , green and red so far....

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Some progress...

Using 34 ga. wire for plug wire.  RB Motion distributor cap boots.  These are cool in that they have a small dia. opening for the wire then a larger opening for the dist. cap, basicly goes together just like the real thing...

 

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