Raoul Ross

IMHO this is the best color for early ChevyIIs/Novas. Looks really nice! Big Thumbs Up!

This one may be easy, maybe not. "I'm looking for marbles ALL DAY LONG!"

I'm in the same boat Bill. I know what it is but can't tell if it's actually a production model or a one-off or a 'tuner'.

So now that I've gotten the crank and water pump pulleys snugged up as far as I can, I need to mount the generator... somehow. The 2 pix at the top don't really show how but there must be a bracket connected to the exhaust manifold somehow. This is where I started. But it's obvious this solution is gonna be a LONG reach. It'll hafta bolt to the front of the head if there's to be enough room for plug wires and have access to the valve cover when it's time to change a gasket/adjust valves. You can't be pulling the generator just to do that! Also looking at the 1:1 pix at the top the alternator sits pretty high anyway. Filed a flat on the bottom and glued a square piece to the bottom. I'll glue the gen to the top of this piece and shape it to fit the head. At this point the realism is slipping and I just wanna get this done. I did a couple mockup shots of the carb and air cleaner setup 'cause I wanted to see how they looked. I know it's a single 4 BBL (meaning it's actually a 409) on a 2x4 manifold but it won't be seen anyway. Tomorrow I hope to the generator mounted and wait for a belt kit I ordered.

While I was in the painting mood I put together the engine stand and SBC from one of the AMT garage series kits. I also wanted to see what the MM 2074 Dunkelblau paint was gonna look like. Painted the engine major assembly. Now back to the 'fun'. It's insanely hard to get pulleys to line up. I needed to extend the crank pulley and make it line up with the water pump pulley... and I haven't even gotten to the genterator! Made a nose for the water pump pulley, which got shaved off more and more as I was worried about total length and fan blade-to-radiator gap. Moar to come!

First thing I wanted to do was lose the Car trans and put a 4-speed floor shift truck tranny in. Yea I know, it's a Ford Top Loader but it *looks* more like a truck trans. Cut off the one and glued the TL on. Pretty close, close enough for a work truck! Ha! Next was tackling the Water Pump. Evergreen to the rescue! Stock pump. Pretty close, a little too far out but I adjusted it here and there.

While I'm waiting for parts for my trailer, I wanted to get started on the truck that's gonna pull it. After that I'll build something to put *on* the trailer but first things first. I wanted to build the '50 Chevy as a Sunoco truck around the '63-'64 timeline and I wanted to put a 348 truck motor in it. I looked around the interwebs for pix of a 348 truck motor and was quite surprised at what I found. What sticks out to you as you look at these 2 pix(the first one is actually a 409)? Look at how tall the water pump is! This was done because the normal 6 cylinder engine was of course taller and the fan was centered in the radiator. The W motors were much shorter so GM had to come up with a way to get the fan more centrally located in the radiator and this was their solution. Looking at the 409 pic, the centerline of the waterpump shaft appears to be pretty much inline with the base of the carb.... this is what I tried to replicate. Man what a job this became. The engine I started with I got from ebay and was touted to be the one from the AMT '62 Bel Air. On with the fabbing!

A car in front of me kicked up a cone he'd hit. I was waiting for it to hit my windshield but it did this instead! Reminded me of this...

... and this is your grandson, A.B. Skywalker! lol

Cat is my daughter's nickname.

That's kinda why I bought it, that and the price was right!

Never Mind, I see the purpose now. I need to read all the words... carry on!

Looks like your Ad Blocker is working.

Hobbylink has pretty good pricing and a lot of the things I look for. The only problem with them is it takes a long time for stuff to leave their warehouse. ScaleHobbyist is my next goto but they have the same problem. My guess is their warehouses are understaffed. I'll checkout Burbank House of Hobbies.

Godfather Part2

I emailed Doug at Round2 today to inquire if the decal sheet for the '34 Sunoco truck is available yet and he said no. I'll wait a couple more weeks and try again.

Great Job Zippi! Just like it's intended to be! ?

I may need to do this stuffing a "348" into the '50 Chevy pickup... Thanx for the excellent 'How-To'! ?

LOL Yea, it doesn't really "recycle" cash, it's more of a MIMO... Money In Money Out. It's used a lot in businesses for checking in/out cash drawers, like a shift change at Walmart, etc. I don't even look at it as "cash" anymore, it's just a part of the job to make the machine do what it's creators intended it to do then move onto the next job. I can see a quarter of a million dollars in a single machine and it doesn't even faze me.

This is what I drive for my job, ATM/Cash Recycler/Safe repair. An adequate vehicle that serves it's purpose, Nissan NV200 It needed some maintenance work that needed a few days to get right. This is what Enterprise gave me for a loaner, a '22 Audi Q5 with 1100 miles on it! I told the Nissan dealer to take their time repairing the NV200, LOL

Maybe some have seen this but I thought it interesting enough to share. http://www.carnut.com/specs/specs.html On the bottom right is engine dimensions, this is how I found this site through a Duck-Duck-Go search. http://www.carnut.com/specs/engdim.html

I have complete confidence in your abilities Zipps, you'll fig'ur it out!