What Engine is in the new Ford Aeromax 160

[csxfan2001]

What Engine is in the Italeri Ford Aeromax kit #3891

Thanks,

Brian

[chuckyr]

The Ford Aeromax 106 is a reissue first offered around 1996. The engine is a Cummins NTC 400, which dates back to Italeri's first US truck kit that was first issued in the mid 1980s, the Freightliner FLC 120, which was recently reissued by Italeri.

[csxfan2001]

Thank You

[Q tip]

if there was ever a kit begging to become a Michigan steel train , it would be this ford

[Force]

I believe the engine in the Italeri and Revell AG Ford Aeromax kits (same tooling) was supposed to be a Cummins N14, but it's a bad one as it looks like an older NTC with an air to air Intercooler instead of the normal for NTC Aftercooler.
Italeri isn't known to do accurate kits and they often take shortcuts here and there to save some money when they develop new kits, and the chassis and engines are often the things they save on...so there are lots of inaccurate kits from Italeri and Revell AG as they share some tooling with Italeri.

Edited January 21, 2014 by Force