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  1. Force
    Yes it's hard to see but it looks like they could have had both Mid-Riser and Tunnel Port, I have seen pictures of both setups in the Mk IV. There is not that many Mk IV kits out there, only the IMC/Testors and MPC kits wich have engines, so that engine option may not be as desirable as the one for the Fujimi Mk II curbside kits, they used the dual carb setup in the Mk IIB for 1967 tho'.
  2. Force
    Yes it should be a louvered vent there. It seems like AMT missed that when they first made the tooling for the COE Aerodyne cab, the Revell K100 kits and the AMT K123 has the vent in place. Here is a picture of the Papa Truck when it was for sale after Malone's passing, Gary Reis has the truck now and has restored it.
  3. Force
    Yes you are absolutely right, I just looked at the color. I looked at my files and the first picture is as you say car No 3, Chassis J7 driven by Andretti/Bianchi wich did not finish the 67 LeMans race. As Mad Mike says, the single carburetor version for the Mk II should have this early style of the 4150 with the "LeMans" float bowls wich also can be seen in his engine picture above.
  4. Force
    I'm not 100% sure but I think the Mk II and Mk IV had medium riser heads and intake manifolds, the high riser came in 1963 but was mostly used 64-65 in NASCAR and Drag Racing, I don't know if the high riser was used in anything else. The Mk II was raced at LeMans in 1965 but none of the cars finished the race...and we all know the story for 1966.
  5. Force
    They are cool!!
  6. Force
    The Mk IV dual carburetor setup was a one year only and they didn't have that style air cleaner, if they had air cleaners it was small round ones, one on each carburetor. Ford used the Holley 4160 style carburetors mounted backwards, they will not fit otherwise as the float bowl will interfere with the distributor if mounted the other way, you have drawn in the 4150 style carburetors in this picture and they will not physically fit on a Ford FE dual carb intake manifold as they are too large, the 4160 is smaller and has only one metering block, the 4150 has two metering blocks and that and the upside down V shape where the fuel goes in makes them too long for this application. Here is the dual carb setup on the 1967 LeMans Winner, car No 1. The Mk IV had the carburetors mounted in air boxes and here are a couple of styles used, here is the No 4 car. Here is car No 2. Here is car No 1 again now with the air box mounted.
  7. Force
    Sooo Nice!!! You have even put in the correct dry sump setup, this one I'm hopefully going to buy at least two of. The HRM engine is also a small block for Mk I so this will probably be the only FE conversion engine for the Mk II and it would work for the Mk IV too...the Mk IV had dual Holley 4160 carbs tho'.
  8. Force
    Build it...that's what they are made for.
  9. Force
    Drag Radial slicks are used in the Stock and Super Stock Eliminator classes today...and the stock and super stock racers are very serious indeed. The radials are more stable on a heavy car and often quicker than traditional bias ply tires. I have a couple of close friends here in Sweden who only use drag radials on their race cars, one of them has a Super Stock 68 Camaro with a 396 Big block, a national record holder bought from USA some years ago, and the other friend has a 68 Hemi Barracuda in the SS/AH class with a Joe Allread built 426 Hemi (Hemi 3) bought complete from Jim DeFrank when they stopped racing Hemis in the super stock class after Joe Allread died, he also owns the Allread built Hemi 1 engine wich he bought a couple of years earlier from DeFrank as a spare engine.
  10. Force
    I couldn't care less wich one is supposed to be "better". Even tho' I own a Ford both GM, FoMoCo and Mopar each has done several cars I like and would like to have.
  11. Force
    The one on the movie truck looks to be gold with black ribs and letters. Here is a couple of pictures of one of the movie trucks used for most of the outside shots. "Tod Engels" truck from the first scene in the movie also had a gold grille emblem, it's a bit hard to see but the background is gold and it seems like the ribs and letters could be chromed or maybe all gold. Here is another 1973 truck I found were the emblems are all gold. As for the Torsion Bar suspension, Auslowe in Australia has it in resin.
  12. Force
    It's not a 427, just a 289-302 small block with Gourney Eagle heads...but it looks great. Although a 427 FE for the GT40 Mk II and Mk IV would be nice.
  13. Force
    I don't care much about the wheels rotating, I want my models to stay put and not roll away so I often glue the wheels onto the axles. But if you still have the axle piece you can glue it back on to the axle but drill a small hole in the axle and the broke off piece and insert a bit of wire to pin it in place and glue with super glue and it will stay on there better. I can't guarantee the wheel will roll after this opreation but you can at least get it in place.
  14. Force
    Yes I know that the AMT version has a centrifugal supercharger and most of the Allison engines had that...but as you can see in my pictures the P-38 Lightning had exhaust driven General Electric turbochargers to try to improve on the otherwise quite weak high altitude performance of the Allison V-1710, so it's just another version of the engine.
  15. Force
    Some even had turbochargers.
  16. Force
    That would be cool. I don't know if anybody has done the old Kenworth 4-bag air ride from the late 60's - early 70's either, it would be a nice addition for the AMT Kenworth kits as it's from the right time period.
  17. Force
    Now we're talking, looks great!
  18. Force
    Some newer engines are available from the aftermarket, Moluminum has the C15, Auslowe has both the N14 and a "Signature" 600 Engine, and A&N Model Trucks has the later ISX15, as most of the AMT truck kits are from the early to mid 70's these engines are too new for most of them but can be used for later re-power. Otherwise the newest engines available in US truck model kits are the International Maxx Force 15 in the Moebius Lone Star and Pro Star, and the Detroit Diesel Series 60 in the Italeri Peterbilt kits.
  19. Force
    Kenworth had mostly all engines white up to 1975 and Peterbilt up to 1984, most were white but I have seen engine manufacturers original colors before and white painted engines after those dates...so it's up to the builder what color he want to use. Original engine manufacturer colors back in the day were yellow for Cat, Cummins were beige, Detroit Diesel were Alpine Green.
  20. Force
    I just got my first order from KJ the other day and I have to agree with everyone here, super nice parts and absolutely perfect service, I will order more from him in the future.
  21. Force
    Maybe the owners doesn't want to put up the money to make the quarter mile track safer, after all it was at Raceway Park, Englishtown Scott Kalitta lost his life 10 years ago. They shortened the competition distance for the nitro classes to 1000 feet after that but they go faster and quicker today at 1000 feet than they did then on the quarter mile, the difference is 320 feet longer braking zone, but that may not be enough in the future.
  22. Force
    There is not that many 1950 Mercs done either (one or two), no coupe and none recently. It's relatively easy to do a '50 from a '49 but the grille with parking lights, the dash, the rear window,, the side trim, the hood and trunk trim, the hubcaps and the rear bumper guard and some other small things is different from the '49 so you have to get that from somewhere...and The Modelhaus is no more for parts. To do a '51 from the '49 tool involves more work as the differences are a lot more. I think the '50 is cleaner looking than the '51 because I don't really like grille, the rear window opening and welded on rear quarter panel extensions on the '51.
  23. Force
    Well an eight-mile is better than nothing at all.
  24. Force
    Yes...and make it a 1950. I saw that car at Bill Papke's shop in Huntington Beach, Ca in 2012, under restoration when a friend of mine bought some parts for a 1950 Merc 4-door hi just bought...But Papke died from cancer very soon after so I don't know what happened to the car after that.
  25. Force
    Tragical, I read Irwindale in California wich was up for demolition was saved for now, but I didn't think Englishtown would close down with the herritage that track has, 48 years with National Events it's one of the oldest in the calendar.
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