Texas_3D_Customs

I didn't take it as you were upset by it commenting on why it is the way it is If I could produce these in bulk quickly the price wouldn't be this high I try to keep my price is fair for the amount of time I put into it was just stating why it is the way this

You have to understand unlike a kit this is not injection molded by the thousands with little human interaction A lot of time goes into doing this and I work many many hours serve busy season but it's a whole different level of detail than you're going to get with injection molding. And like any other custom made handcrafted and I know a printer did it but there's still a lot of manual labor that goes into these It's going to be at a premium.

Well the way things are going I don't know every time I think I'm starting to catch up I have a Rush of orders and I can barely keep up so unless things change and I don't have to work 14 hours a day

I guess the heads are reminiscent of Pontiac heads that's about it

Late to the party but...

Have no idea what possessed me to do this but I kinda like it

To put it more bluntly I do not make toys in my garage I make replicas

I think you're just supporting exactly what I said though where did this engine come from What kit did it come from What aftermarket supplier That's all relevant just cuz one thing says it's 124 and another thing says it's 125 doesn't really mean much in less the person can tell you this is accurate scale and by accurate scale I mean you knew the size of the original down to the millimeter and then you scale it down appropriately to be true scale let's take the Pontiac for example obviously I scan the engine my scanner is accurate within 0.2 mm that's ridiculously accurate for what we're talking about now I scale it down to 4.17% not 4.00% but that is the difference between the two so I can say that it is true scale 124 accurate within a hundredth of a millimeter. This conversation and I'm not saying you're not on my side I fully realize you are though most people are not on my side but I can get hung up on the very fine details in fact I need to be hung up on the extreme details of exactly what I'm doing because in my opinion that's What makes something a high quality product the fact that you went to the extremes of making sure you're accurate down to the order of less than 1 mm at full size

That may be the case but that is why I went with 124 over 125 cuz just a little bit bigger and I mean it is such a small amount is always going to look a little bit better than just a little bit smaller there are two different ways to look at the difference in sizes you could say it's 4% bigger and this is true but it's only 0.17% different from real scale. I don't know why this is such a big deal if you do the actual math on the difference it is very minute a lot less than 10%

All versions of the Pontiac V8 that I will do for them foreseeable future are all on my website now The only thing I may add is a different hat for the blower other than that I think I have plenty of selection at this point

I am almost done with this platform but not yet

Not really my style

What engine is that?

But I will do this

Maybe

Almost done with this platform but here's another version

Yet another Pontiac version

Nope not going to do it. For some odd reason this seems to be a hot topic with this engine most people want me to take power steering off take off this take off that make a race engine but with this engine everybody wants the AC compressor The problem is how fragile and complicated everything will get to do it look at the real engine and think about that in scale. More than anything it's going to be the thinness of the mountains where it mounts on and the belt itself.

I'm sorry that's not how I read it and I guess I'm confused because I get a lot of people hating on me because of the scale thing and they'll point to this kit or that kit and from the picture I'm looking at it looks like the Nova on the right the engine in it is too big That's my opinion though It's hard to say but 99.9% of the time people want to argue with me that there's a big difference and that's how I read it

And since you want to do a comparison here is a faithfully recreated 124 scale DZ inspired small block Chevy and an AMT Nova SS kit No I haven't fully built it No I will never have time to finish because this is what I do I work out here all day long I hardly ever see my kids anymore because by the time I'm done they're off at soccer diving or in bed but here's a true comparison 1:24 scale engine accurate 1:24 scale late on the chassis inside the Nova SS kit that's 1:25 scale.

So I have an even better example, my Hellcat engine. I do sell a 1:25 Charger version, it lines up almost exactly with the original non-Hellcat version, but the reality is that the engine itself is no different in size than the 1:24 version, the change is actually the blower and oil pan. They are shorter because the Hellcat oil sump is significantly taller than the RT/SRT oil sump and the blower is also reduced in height to fit under the hood. The length and width are exactly the same only those two parts are different and it mainly due to the kit not being designed well and the hood is not made to accommodate the tall blower from the Hellcat. Size matters but not how its viewed by the average person. Judging scale based on what someone calls scale X or Y is not the same as talking about doing something in accurate scale made from precise measurement/scanning of real 1:1 items and faithfully reproducing them at true scale. If it was the problem that you are making it out to be, why then have my engines been used in countless builds and look great?

Okay I will tell you So where did that 1:24 engine come from, can you guarantee that it is actually 1:24 scale and I mean accurate scale not just it came with a kit it came from this person whatever where did that come from. There are other issues here like engine placement. The Camaro you have the distributor sitting up against the firewall but The Nova there is a significant gap between the firewall and the distributor but looking at these two pictures which the quality is not very good and hard to see for sure it actually looks like your Camaro The engine is indeed larger looking at the valve covers they look longer than the Nova. But let's get down to actual numbers not hey I've got a picture here's a kit this is what I'm showing you but let's get down to real empirical data. A 1:24 LS with the transmission and all the accessories are on it, the difference in total length from the end of the tail shaft to the front of the water pump is 2 mm The width is 0.75 mm wider and the height is a about the same I think it's closer to 0.9 mm taller. So if we're going to take real empirical data the difference in the total length including the transmission is about the width of a quarter, when I say with I don't mean to diameter I mean from the front face the back face. So tell me total assembled engine 2 mm, you're going to convince me that that is noticeable and it really matters that much, Because If you're going to tell me that the width of the quarter over the whole length, I'm not saying 2 mm to the front I'm saying if you split it right at the bell housing 1 mm forward 1 mm back, and the same with the width you're talking not even half a millimeter on each side. Yes I'm going to do everything in metric because I'm an engineer. The point being I can have this conversation a million times and people can swear that I've built kit X with engine Y from vendor Z and it's way different I've also seen pictures that someone took of Offenhauser engines all kit made and the 1:24 kit engine was smaller than the 1:25 kit engine So explain that one to me.

Another Pontiac V8 version

You have to slice it for your printer

So there's like nothing I can do about that I can't make an engine in 10 different "scales" but I have seen my engines used in plenty of 1:25 kits without issue