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Using my last stock of 0.5 mm bolts. -will there be more ? I’ll try to find out .... also using RB motion hardware and resin 3D printed bolts - these are tiny and with very fine detailed. - I’ll paint them with a mix of floquil colors for a gun metal finish ...And some brass for contrast ...

Edit II. abs Miami ...

Edit : thanks for staring ... and Miami

Yup. ...

Thank you for sharing. Made my day ...

The paint finish on the block is Alcad semi-matte aluminum. Might be a little too dull - not sure - but I’ll paint the engine accessories with a brighter finish to contrast ... the valve covers are painted with hardware store flat black - again it’s impossible to know what exact shade is correct ...

Using my last stock of 0.5 mm bolts. -will there be more ? I’ll try to find out .... also using RB motion hardware and resin 3D printed bolts - these are tiny and with very fine detailed. - I’ll paint them with a mix of floquil colors for a gun metal finish ...And some brass for contrast ...

Valve covers and fuel pump... the valve covers are drilled and prepped for a bunch of bolts ... the fuel pump is made fro evergreen stock. - based on photos of a pump that I took on a different climax engine. - the restored car appears to use a slightly different pump - but it’s hard to know what the arrangement was for the Tasman season so I’m winging it ...

Not to mention Coconut Grove ...

Body Color ? I like them in gold ...

Gracias Now would you please dirty up your workbench some more ...??

The seams are very convincing what is you hand tool of choice to bend the pipes. And I assume that you anneal the metal first - have you found pliers that will bend the metal with only a limited amount of tool markings in the metal ? ? I’m about do do something like this on my Lotus ....

.007. ?? Holy cow. That’s scale ...

Yup this is cool ...

Looked again ... exhausts are 1/16 ?? are the pipes copper or brass and am I color blind ?

Yup questions - the exhausts are copper - right ? What are the dimensions ? Looks like .080? weld seams - made with nickel silver Wire ? and the fuel lines - nickel ? Dimensions - .012 ?? ??

?? ??? keep going ...

Bout ready to do some painting ...

Before painting I’m adding dozens of bolts to the block and the cyl head. Doing this now so I can limit my handling of these parts once they are painted. Using .020 and .025 bolt heads and nuts from RB motion, Master Club - those are the plastic bolts on the exhaust manifold flanges. These are really very sharp castings. Some scale hardware bolts also used.

The air box is not used on the restored car. - and it’s a safe bet that the actual air box was binned at the end of the season - or when the 32B was sold to an Australian privateer at the end of the season. But there are a handful of photos available online - and the design was a pre-cursor of the air boxes used on the Ford DOHC Indy winner 6 months later.

The carbs will be pegged into an air box that team Lotus used in the Tasman series ...

When I made the master - I made the body of the carb just a little too tall . So I’m performing a Weber lobotomy. I sawed the cap off - sanded away about .020 - and then epoxied the cap back on - and then the same on the second carb.

You are referring to the old Revell ? Kit ?? Don’t give up. It was very detailed and has great potential. And one of my favorite cars. more on the engine. - the 32B used side draft Webers - which was the general choice for the Climax FPF. I’m using some castings of a Weber that I made years ago.

Latest GSL posting just swam into my email box ... May 5-8 2022 and yes, it is the last and yes, Bugattifan , you’re invited too ...

Not to beat a dead horse ... ok. Why not the great salt lake contest will have a category for these creations ... so ....