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I order them from a couple different aftermarket sites Tim. Sometimes I use the Model Car Garage pulleys, and sometimes I use the Parts By Parks ones. Either work with just a little modifying and planing out for fit, on almost any model. Thanks alot Joe my friend. Hope to get a little work started on the chassis before the wife hauls me off camping this coming weekend lol.

As for delamination, havent had it cause me that problem. As for being campatible, why not just use Tamiya's acrylic clear since your using their paint, and it mixes the same as their paint does. I don't use a paint booth either, I just paint in my open room on a stand.. yup lots of fumes during painting, (thats what a mask is for) and overspray everywhere, but thats what I built this room in my garage for anyways, it's a mess just the way a working mans room should be lol.

Morning everyone, got the Nova Wagon 383 stroker engine done today. I added a red MAD distributor with yellow wires. Made the plug wire boots out of pieces of red heater hose. Added heater hoses with vintage photo-etched hose clamps from the Model Car Garage and a starter wire. Installed the fan belts and fan, and aplied Slixx oil filter decals on both engines. Here are a few pics of the completed wagon engine. The filter for the air breather was made by cutting a piece of white printer paper and wrapping it around the breather, then a piece of red mesh frabric that I found at hobby lobby was cut and gluded over the paper. I thing it worked out pretty good myself. The air breather it'self is a aftermarket supplied one I bought at the Local hobby store. I beleave it was made by Scale Repro's PLus. I know when I bought it, I bought 3 or 4 of them just to have on hand. I did make the are breather removable on both engines for display purposes. And finally here is a pic of both completed engines. Next task will be to start working on the chassis and suspension for both Nova's I'll post more as I start working on them. Thanks for looking guys and as always, comments and sugjestions are welcome.

Thanks Mike. As far as thining down the fan blades, no need to really, unless your working on a really old kit that came with a super thick fan. Most kits fans are thin enough that once sitting in front of the raidiator, you don't really notice them. But if you really worry about apperence with the fan, there are some really nice and cheap aftermarket ones out there. Check out Model Gar Garage's web site, they have a few, as does detail master.

here are a few pics of the 327 finished motor.. Next up is to finish the Stroker engine for the wagon.. One engine complete, still need to drill out the ends of the breather tubes. Next it's on to complete the wagon engine More as I get it done.,

I finished up the first of the two motors today. It's the Nova SS 327 for Pop's Toy. In order to make the breathers removable, I had to scratch make something that would allow the breathers to sit on the carbs correctly and level as well as make it so they could be removed for display. To do this I used some evergreen large tube about the same diameter as the carb tops. I trimmed off the atachment tub from the kit supplied breather and scraped away the chrome from the area I needed to glue the ring I made from the large tube. I applied a little bit of regular model cement to the area I wanted the ring to sit, this allowed me to have a little bit of time before the glue dried to position the ring in the breather so it would sit correctly and level on top of the carb. Next I prepped the distributor cap and plug wires with wire lumes and boots and glued the cap to the distributor base. I then made a set of heater hoses from scale heater hose material from the Model Car Garage. I later added vintage hose clamps. Once the plug wires were run in thier proper firing order and the heater hoses were atached, I made and installed a starter wire, and attached the fan belts and fan as well as the tranny lingage. A few pics of the finished Nova SS 327 engine in the following post

Oh how I know that feeling with the back issue Steve. Been there myself these past few weeks lol. Nice work on it though. You know what they say... No Pain No Gain lmao.. that isn't supposed to apply to us modelers though darn it.

Nice start on both builds Gerald.

Small update for tonight guys. Been a busy weekend and a warm one to. I got the Nova SS (Pop's Toy) engine about to the same point as far as detail and assembly as I did the wagon engine. Now that both engines are at a point where I can finally do the final detailing work on them, I hope to have them both done in the next few day. I'll explain my concept for removable air cleaners when I make the next post on the final detail work for the engines. For now here is a few pics on both engines progress. Both engines with air cleaners just setting in place. Getting things ready for the engines final detailing. I'll have more to post in a couple days.........

Thanks Joe buddy Thanks for the kind words Mike. I'm sure you could detail a carb every bit as well as I do. Tt took me a little time and patience is all.

Nice work so far Steve. You have alot of patience, to do that much masking. But it sure looks like it's paying off.

I like where your going with this one. I think your ideas for the interior work really well. I'll sure be watching as you go along.

Nice start. I think the color really works on it. I like your dash detail as well. Keep up the good work.

Morning Tim. I like the color choice for the body. As for spaz stix, strip it off the bumpers and grill and re-do them with alclad. Use testors enamel gloss black or Alclad's gloss black as a base coat and once you apply the alclad chrome, do not go over the chrome with a clear coat or sealer, it will dull it down. I've had the same issues with Spaz Stix in the past, so now I exclusively use Alclad chrome for re-chroming exterior trim like bumpers and grills. You just got to be careful about handling the parts once coated. So I alclad them, then set them aside in a safe place. That way I dont have to handle them until the very end of a build, and then I put them on the model last. As for your trunk, It is coming along nice. If you deside in the end to go with a fuel cell, I would either scratch make one, or look around on the net, there are a few aftermarket resin cast ones made for drag cars that may be just what you are looking for. Just do a google search for "1/25 resin cast fuel cells" and see what it comes up with. You should be able to find one that doesnt have a molded on filler tube, allowing you to add your own.

Everything is really coming along nicely Joe. I can;t wait to see what you do with the demon. But I'm likeing what your doing with this one that's for sure.

Check the previous page for the first post in tonights update. Next the pulleys were removed from all the parts and everything except the carb got detail painted. Once the paint dried on everything, it was all assembled and then the stock kit valve covers were added. I mocked the carb up in place to give you a idea of how it will look. There is still lots more to assemble and detail with it, but the next few pics should give you an ideal of how it will look. Here are the two Nova's engines side by side in different stages of completion. More to come as I get things done. Thanks for checking out my builds and as always.. comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Thanks alot for all the encouragement everyone.Got a little time on the work bench this evening, but did't get as much time as I would have liked. My plan was to try and get as far with the Nova SS 327 engine as I did with the stroker engine for the wagon. Well I didn't get quite that far, but I made some progress toward it anyways. May take a couple posts to get all the pics in, so bare with me. I started by assembling the block and tranny and getting it seam sanded and prepped it for detailing and paint. I removed the molded on fuel pump and dug a better one out of my parts bin. I also removed the molded on linkage from the tranny (since I'm planing to add photo-etched linkage to it).I also plan to give the Nova SS a engine dress up, while keeping ot basicly stock, by adding aftermarket pulleys and a upgraded carb system, I also will not be using the kit supplied alt and starter. I dug a better detailed alt out of the parts bin and added scratch made brackets to it. I also dug a power steering pump out of the parts bin and prepped it for a aftermarket pully. In the first pic below you can see the basic parts and pieces mocked up. In the pic below you can see where I removed the molded on fuel pump. And in the pic below you can see where I removed most of the molded on linkage rods for the tranny. In the pic below is the power sterring pump, Alt, and fuel pump mocked up. The pulleys will be removed for painting. Next I started work on detailing the carb. I added linkage, a choke plate for the front two barrels, and added some drilled out round rod for the rear two barrels, then drilled out the holes for later adding the fuel and vacuum lines. I'll finish up the carb detail later on. Continued in the following post............

Nice color combo

Very Very Nicely done Steve.

Really nice work Willard. Love your detailing.

What can I say? OUTSTANDING!

Me Really LIkey! reminds me kinda of a Austin Healey Sprite and even, sorta, like my MG-Midget

Very Nice!

No problem Tim, I'm pretty much the same on the Nova builds lol.. A little piddling here and there but not alot of bench time. I hope maybe I'll get a little in tomorrow. But it depends on how my honey do list goes.

I really like your machine work.