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The carbs will get some aluminum caps and horns. ... time to clean up the Sherline workbench ... maybe I’ll post a photo before the cleanup. Just for laughs ... the cyl head has plug holes drilled at angles - this was a duel plug / cylinder engine - the distributor sits in front of the engine - below the fuel pump and above the water pump ...
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The other side of the cyl head gets angled holes for the carbs... the Amal carb bodies are soldered up from 1/16 thin tube and some .078 tubing scrounged from the back of one of my STUFF drawers ... Next is some work on the cam housings ...
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Cooper barn find
absmiami replied to absmiami's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
Gracias. Saw several running together at the Barber track in Alabama a few years ago. Yes they are small and they sound like a huge swarm of ANGRY bees ... -
1966 Ford J Car Prototype
absmiami replied to Gramps46's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
You’re markings on the body ... was the body too wide up front but scale at the rear ?! That’s a pain ... -
And the NACA ducts aren’t so easy - got to make two small ones on my Lotus ...
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Maybe not .... when Doug Nye did his great History of the Post War Grand Prix car Vol I - about 35 years ago - it included the factory drawings for the Vanwall space frame. Thank you Mr Nye! The current plan is to build a display chassis - as photographed / featured in the book’s chapter on the marque - actually I think that undressed chassis was once on display at the Collier Museum - now known as Rev’s - years ago - I was unable to photograph it then as the museum has always had strict photograph rules - no flash - not a problem today - with I phones - but back then - it was the “””one that got away “”. Anyway - this mite be the chassis for the Rev’s Collection Vanwall . Vanwall only built 5 or 6 .... - there is so much on these cars that I can do a nice job with what I’ve got - but boy would I have loved to have shot a roll of film on that chassis ... oh well ... and the Merit Vanwall kit may make a cameo in this project anyway ...
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How come nobody’s asked me where this engine is going .. ??
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On the right side of the cyl head I’ll make the combustion ports . This engine used Amal single throat carbs in an arrangement very similar to its Norton ancestor ... I mite cheat and use some kit sourced exhaust pipes from Fernando Pinto’s very good Vanwall kit. Not Sure - maybe ...
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The cyl head exhaust ports and flanges under construction ... evergreen strip and lots of liquid glue...
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2 things to pay attn to while making the cyl head. The angle for the cam boxes - should be 60 degrees - and I drilled thru the head for the openings for the coolant tubes - so that I’ve got a pattern to use when I solder up the radiator manifold ...
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Yikes ... that photo of Autolite I with the parachute is wonderful ...
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ok. So far so good. Now on to the cylinder head ...
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“Growing” the engine block - from the display engine photos you’ll see that the block is topped with a row of cylinder castings - I couldn’t quite work out their exact dimensions - but I used .156 evergreen tube - which is 4 scale inches - and a height of .100 - 2&1/2 scale inches in height ... that’s close enough ... the rest is all done with lengths of Evergreen strip and bar and liquid glue ...
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Do not. - I repeat - do not take the measurements on my Drawing as gospel - these are somE guestimates - and changes were made as the engine parts are made...
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I took these photos over 30 years ago - at the recently shuttered Donington Museum - my one and only visit - the display engine has a story to tell - I think - the pumps and distributor are attached to the side of the engine block - they don’t belong there - unless this was used in the team’s rear engined prototype or the Lotus 18 / Vanwall experiment ... maybe it was - don’t know ... would love to know where this engine is now ...notice the hairpin springs poking out from the cylinder head - these are really hard to see once the engine is installed ... what a cool looking engine ...
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Evergreen makes some sheet that railroaders use to make boxcar siding. The HO size is handy for making engine parts that are ribbed - like the Vanwall sump - the ribs are deepened with a razor saw - and away we go ...
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The engine is a scratchbuilders dream - or nightmare ? We’ll see..
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DING DING. ... the photo is from a restorer’s website - I’m not adding the link because the site appears To have some virus issues at The current time [ don’t we all ]. Tony vandervell’s engine was a quirky mix of old and new. It featured Norton’s cyl head design - including those wonderful exposed valve hair springs - poking out under the valve covers.
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Nope. Not that one ... but it is British ....
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Nope. The engine that I have in mind - and sort of on my workbench - is a unique four cylinder Grand Prix engine by ..??..
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Here’s another riddle. What engine is / was designed as a mash-up of four Norton Manx cylinder heads ? ?
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The optivisor is the most important tool on my workbench ...
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Caveat - we will of course be ruining the value of the kits we choose to build - oh well ...
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Once you are done with the Bugatti LSR - would you be tempted to do a build thread on one of your Etzels kits - I’ve got a different collection of Etzel unbuilts - including the Duesenberg Indy car - we could do a combined thread as a tribute to Chris - that was my thought .. . I have strange thoughts ...
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Maserati A6GCS Spyder
absmiami replied to absmiami's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
David. I’ve sent the castor an email - hope the link is current ... Maserati made less than 50 spyders - betting that strada24 Sold less than 50 kits. I’ll post the answer if I get one - either way - it was a fortunate purchase ...
