charlie libby

Your fabrication gets better everytime i look

hi everybody ,thanks for looking ken great to hear from you. thanks for the comments bruce. nice to hear from you tim hope you are doing well. have been out of town to the great state of maine. relatives put a 50 th wedding anniversary celebration together for us and we had a really good time.back to my project again. i have been putting off the front suspension because i didn't know which way i wanted to go. finally made up my mind but its going to be difficult ,but i have started. not sure how it will end up but i have what i think i have some good ideas . the nose and front fenders are in the way. but we shall see. i have the lower arms and ball joint parts made. i made the shifter and the the floor location. andrew i am looking forward to the model car contest in a few weeks. never been to one. this will be a busy month. i am also a voting poll deputy sheriff and i will be busy with that allot thru august as well. thank you all

you continue to get better everyday.gives us something to strive for

been out of touch for awhile. i have been renovating a bathroom for 2 weeks. finally its done.got back to the shop and made a few more parts. andrew ,look at what i added in the window of my shop! soooo nice. got the wires in the other 2 wheels and made the center nuts. working on the optima battery almost done .radiator is almost done . made the screen and trim for the nose. andrew are you going to the show in august. this will be my first model show. can you bring more than 1 car? looking forward to it. grill trim in brass, after plating and after polishing. alternator is mounted and needs a little finish work.i made an exhaust manifold instead of header.thanks for the cool pictures andrew

hi ken,many places, fastener express, ebay, model motorcars, minitaps .com, i am constantly looking. andrew, still good till about 2;30. hi noel,going to do the novi i 1/16 scale and put in in some crazy. it will be fun and different. working on the tranmissiom. its done except a little detail work. got the engine and transmission mounted and did the floor and firewalls. got the seats and some interior panels made. then i kept looking at the picture and just had to do the exhaust. making things fit is alot more difficult than just drawing the picture. alot of things get in the way of other things. here is the floor and the exhaust. i am going to make a finned aluminum exhaust manifold and a split the pipe ro go into the the dual pipes.

did a little assembly today .i just ordered over 200 screws to finish it. i have over 200 drilled and tapped holes in 4 different sizes,00-90 , 0-80 , ,and 1mm , 1-72. thank you all for your nice comments. i am looking forward to the novi also. long wats off.

hello tim and randy , hope you are doing well. quick update. i haven't spent much time in the shop recently. other hobbies and honey do list ,but i got a few things done. still on this engine which is my favorite thing to make. i am going to do a novi v8 for my next project ,Andrews idea. i just received the brass to finish the body but i need the engine and transmission mounted to do the floor and fire wall. i am a little further along than these pictures show but forgot to take pictures. the engine is almost completed. more next week. thanks for looking and commenting ,I appreciate it.

i was always afraid of sliting saws but i have been using them on this car.i always find new ways to do things by following your incredible work.just learned some to night.thanks francis

got most of the blower and blower drive parts made. still got some filing and sanding to do. i can't believe all these parts fit together and bolt to each other. some details left but i like it so far. take it apart now and make all the side covers and breathers. bellhousing and transmission after the covers. i think i will have to mount the engine at an angle with the blower to the top like they did in the indy cars. if i mount it straight up and down the injector will have to stick out of the side panel with some kind of scoop or cover. this is alot bigger than the last one i did. heres a few pictures . all the parts had a pair of holes drilled and reamed to .250 so i could align all the pieces to each other with 2 pieces of .250 brass tubing. i also used them on my rotary table with a small brass fixture to drill and tap all the holes . i didnt count but there is alot of holes. used the same little fixture to radius all the parts. you may notice the blower is on the opposite side of the engine than the picture of the original. these engines were ambidextrous ,just switch the cams from one side to the other. enjoy the pictures . thank you for looking.

thats a really ingenious way to do the u joint. i have to agree with moparman how can you be so accurate .can i use your method?

the supercharger is coming together. i got the manifold 3/4 done and the blower is starting to look like the picture. got a long way to go but it will look good. connecting the blower to the bell housing will be a project in itself. i want to get the so engine and transmission done so i can finish the frame, the floor and the firewall. hope the next update mill have the blower mounted to the engine

working on the blower today . i wanted to make it with as few pieces as possible. 3 pcs for the main section. next are the end plates.

super nice francis

When i worked for jack roush in nascar i was lucky enough to get to his museum in lavonia. Very cool place.

hi randy amazing work . i have learned a lot from you and your your updates. your car will be just a work of art. keep the up dates coming

the engine is coming together. i really like this engine . you may have noticed that.

And i thought building a body from scratch was a lot of work.looks great pierre

hi tim probably just my usual aluminum and brass. with some info from andrew , he was here at my shop today ,maybe some german silver. andrew thanks for the visit and the pictures , always great to have visitors. big John, WOW, thank you so much. that is great. where did you get that from? i am going to have it blown up to hang on my wall.

THEY REALLY DO LOOK ALOT LIKE THE OFFY. sorry about the caps lock. i have a good start on the offy and am excited about the roots type blower. it looks great. sometimes it gets a little messy.

hi tim, so nice to hear from you . this project has been a major under taking, planing as i go along. i have decided on an engine finally. do to engine compartment size i am doing another offy 270 with a super charger.machining the engine is allways my favorite part. i am still struggling with what to do for front suspension. i am drawing up 2 different front ends trying to decide. thanks again for your comments

here is a couple of pictures of the offy i did two projects ago. i thought maybe the supercharge engine. the miller 91 scales to 6.25 inches not including the supercharger on the back or the distributer on the front. dont have enough room. since this has never been a real car how abought a six cyl. supercharged offy or miller, same thing? got the 2 front wheels assembled. got to anodize them tomorrow, and install the wires. andrew allan and john,thanks for your inout,greatly appreciated. also working on the front suspension as well

Car looks great pierre.going to be awesome when its done,glad u didnt give up

hi pierre,noel and allen, glad you are still looking and commenting. thank you for your encouraging words. building 2 more wheels. finally have 4 fenders. got ll the wheel parts machined except the gazillion holes for the wires . about half of those. i came up with a great idea,now that they are almost done. i did a little reseach on ebay for stainless steel needles and found them about .032 dia. 1.5 inches long would be perfect for wire wheels. next time. hey , what about a miller 91 supercharged straight 8? somebody suggested 2 offy 4 cyl together. thoughts?

theres that big giant dime again. beautiful francis

hi francis and randy, still working on fenders . will start on the forth one tomorrow. it takes a few days. i think the tire size is perfect the wheels fit the style of the car well. i am trying to get as close to the pictures as i can. thinking about colors now. got to decide on the engine and transmission and what the front suspension will be. i need the engine and transmission to build the firewall. more pictures when i finish the other fender