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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

Yes because a little bit bigger looks a lot better than a little bit smaller kit scales or not true scale The difference with this engine with the TH400 behind it completely assembled from the water pump pulley studs to the back of the TH400 is 3 mm longer. There's a lot of confusion in the difference between the two scales cuz people base it off of what they see in kits which is not accurate anyways I had someone discussing my offenhauser talking about how it was smaller than some kit's 1:24 version but bigger than another kit's 1:25 version. Now I wasn't exactly sure what to say to that because how can it be smaller than 1:25 but bigger than 1:24. So the reason I started 124 was cuz I did research and it just seemed logical from what people were saying that if you're going to pick one of the two to go with the slightly bigger because in true scale there is such a little difference why I stay that way compatibility with the thousands of parts I have.

You didn't upset me, just a statement. I do get more pestering than I care to deal with and I assume you wouldn't and I don't dislike requests or suggestions but some people think I need reminding if what they want weekly.

I do and to everyone else yes that engine is huge IRL. And heavy enough to decommission my old engine stand. I will be very honest when I got that thing home and heard the noises my engine lift was making picking it up and decided I needed to move my boom arm back I decided that that was not just a normal V6.

I can promise you pestering me to make an engine will make it take five times this long in fact this engine wasn't made because a certain someone pestered me about it every time I released an engine So I kept putting it off to spite that person which I know is not a good thing to do but I did actually reach out and not many people seem interested in it. And this was already being worked on when you made your post that had nothing to do with that post it just happened to be that you made that post about a week after I bought the engine.

Yes it's on my thread

4bbl version of the Pontiac

Done with the stock version

Pontiac V8 listed at Stock Pontiac V8

More progress

More progress

Here's where I am at on mine

Progress

Working on this project

I don't yet...

I am not 100% sure but I think it was really big stuff like fire engines.

What a lovely day

Something different than normal is coming

New 13B Wankel variant

So something new completely not really relevant to building a model but it does support me. I have a new Merch section on my website.