landman

The shop has just completed a 1937 Chevy 216. It is being readied for shipping, The resin drill press I had purchased came with an optional bench base. I decided to start building the head for it. There is some styrene bits, part of a ball point pen barrel, a big rig hub, part of an oil pan and part of a blower scoop.

More engines. Monogram 1970 Road Runner (looks like 440-2x4) Amt 1966 T-Bird (390 or 428?) Chevrolet ILMOR Indy engine. The car show display set, stanchions, mirrors, trophies etc.

I thought it looks like the engine in the old Mack kit. Wasn't that a Buda?

At the suggestion of Crazy Richard, I added raised buttons to my printed control panels. Added a 51 Chevy block as well.

And a few more. I ended up switching it with the surface grinder as we can see the power head better. The shop is getting busier.

I didn't. It's on eBay.

What is the one on the right? Buda?

A strandard work year is a bit over 2000 hours. So 8000 hours at lets say $80= $640,000 in labour alone. But that guy's work looks like it is worth it.

If you need your truck engine align bored, send it to FTB in the dio section.

Here are a few preliminary photos of the completed line boring machine. It looks very rough in the closeups but reasonably clean in an overall photo. More to fallow later.

Got the level of the bar set. It slides through both towers, the crank bearings and into the drive neatly. All the pins & needles in the foreground will be handles, knobs, etc.

This should give you an idea of where we're headed. This will become crankcase webs

It's almost enough to want to sell my stuff. Not sure what that is doing there, but I can't remove it. Ah well......technology.

Working on the boring bar towers. those are adjustable in real life but will be fixed here, I had to select the block I want to mount in there in order to be able to set the height of the towers. And since the block will be bare, I have to plug some holes. Started making cardboard patterns which will be transferred to plastic.

I have this one, it is 22mm long x 12mm in the widest part. I may have others in the junkpile.

She's a beauty Steve. My first model was a Mustang too. It was in 1958 or so.

Another engine, this time Prowler 3.5 V6. Looked it up, it's from a Prowler kit all right but all the Prowler engines I found on the net look different.

X2 and then some!!!!

I've started on the line boring machine

X2,although my engine is nowhere as nice as yours.

I have added a few to the collection. All four purchased as junk on eBay. Porsche 928 A trio of SOHCs A Ford Nascar, built like this because it was incomplete.

Thanks Steve.

There. There was no carb and only half of one of the headers, so I drilled out ports and boltholes and left it like that. I may redo the back of the bell housing. What is the thing on the lower right front? Fuel pump?

I found some blue blocks online during my research. Might be a Rousch thing though. I'll do this one as you guys suggest steel & aluminum.

While we're at it, are Ford Nascar engines blue or all aluminum?