MarkJ

Thank you, Carl. Much appreciated.

Thanks guys.

Thanks Carl. Just need to find the right size tube or rod and put a top on it and some sort of bracket.

Thanks, Carl. I can't seem to find the coil in the Corvette kit so I might have to make one, But I think the engine might be complete except for painting it and adding spark plug wires. That's all the plumbing I do. I need to put the blades back on the fan too.

Thats it, folks. There is no top for the air cleaner. The hood with a duct built into it was the top for the air cleaner. Whenever they opened the hood, they would throw a rag on top of the carb. I'm not going to model the duct in the hood because I have no ref pictures about how it looked.

You just bend it with your fingers and keep checking it on the pattern and the 1/16 rod is so skinny that it holds it shape. you make it a little longer than you need it for the section you are doing and then trim it on the pattern to get the right length. Then you put it in place on the sticky side of the tape that holds it in place on the rectangular piece of styrene that goes on the head where the header mounts, and then put the liquid adhesive that dries in about 20 seconds on it. I'm using the micro mark "same stuff". I would recommend using a respirator because the fumes are very strong and give me a sore throat and a cough if I don't. Learned that the hard way. I found that they do warn you on the label about the fumes. To me it's an easier process then using solder or wire. It's hard to glue those materials. Thanks for your interest in the build.

Mike, the tubes are Evergreen 1/16-inch rod, and the collectors are Evergreen 1/8-inch tube.

Thanks, I will have to check it out.

I put some putty on the headers to smooth out where they are welded together. I just placed the header next to the engine. it is not installed yet. Don't worry about the fan. i have the blades and will put them back on when I'm through with the engine.

Here is the image I used before making it into a 1/25 scale image.

Got the right header almost finished. Just need to fix where the tubes are put together and add a flange where the collector will meet the exhaust pipe. The left header appears to be larger then the right because it actually is for some unknown reason. I might have to do some adjusting if the left one drags the ground.

Mike and Pierre, the header tubes are evergreen rod and the collectors are tubes. I will have to get back to you on the size. The rods actually are so small that you can put a 90-degree bend on them, and they won't break. I was surprised how small the tubes of the headers turned out to be, but they fit the 1/25 scale picture of the headers perfectly. Thanks for your interest in the build.

Sounds great John. Do you have a link to your you tube channel?

Need to clean it up a bit and prime and paint it. The headers were white on the real car. I don't know if it's some kind of porcelain finish or what. Going to try to do the right header today. In the last picture, the header is not installed. it's just placed in position.

Thanks, Josh.

I found a picture of the headers I wanted for this build, so I took the photo to my graphics program and turned each image of the header left and right profile shots, into 1/25 scale sized images. I then made a double-sided masking tape deal to put the image on one side and use the image as a pattern for making the pieces of the header. the sticky side of the masking tape holds the pieces together and then you hit the joints with the brush from the adhesive bottle. I'm using "the same stuff" adhesive. It's a clear liquid that bonds in about 20 seconds. You then wait 24 hours to get a permanent strong bond so you can work with the piece by trimming and sanding it and even filling it if need be. It's not perfect but the process works and the header will glue to the engine and I'm hoping look better than using solder.

Hopefully tomorrow. I want to make a right-side scale pattern for the right-side header. I also needed to add some more to the left side pattern. I will use folded over masking tape which essentially makes it 2-sided tape to hold the tubes together while I drop adhesive on the joints to bond all the tubes together. I think it should work. The adhesive won't stick to the tape.

After I get the alternator completely mounted and make and install a fan, I can make the headers. I might try making them out of plastic tubing instead of solder. I have a pretty good idea what headers were used and have pretty good ref pictures of them. They are 2 into 1 and the those 2 into a collector. Kind of weird headers

Yes Pierre, it's supposed to be. I don't have a view of the actual pump, so I just made one up from pictures of hopefully pumps from the early seventies. Once the headers are installed you won't be able to see much of it anyway.

Trying to make it look like the engine looks in the ref pictures.