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Very nice lineup. But I'm a little curious about the reason for using Holley Dominators for these builds. Because I have never seen any Cobras with Holley Dominators, just the 4150 style (center hung floats) for single carburetor (some with the LeMans float bowls) and 4160 (side hung floats) for dual mount carburetors. Holley debuted the 4500 Dominator carburetor late 1968 early 1969 for Ford to use in NASCAR and Trans Am and it was later released to the public, so there were none before that.

Nice job!

It's probably more politically correct to use Coca Cola than to use Budweiser, Miller, Coors, Schlitz and Pabst as they did in the 70's for some of the AMT trucks and trailers.

Nice and neat.

Coming along nicely.

I agree with the Hasegawa kit, I have it and it's nice.

Yes it does.

I see you got your answer, but it's only the Revell snap kit W900 that's available with that type of Aerodyne sleeper box in 1:25th scale, the closest AMT has is the T600 but it's a newer version Studio Sleeper box, the AMT W925 only has the short 36 inch sleeper box.

Auslowe has, Kit Form Services (KFS) has, American Industrial Truck Models (AITM) has.

Possibly...the Coca Cola license is probably cheaper than Caterpillar. I think the licensing thing has blown out of proportion, manufacturers are so keen about getting out as much money as possible from the brand but they are blind to the fact that they get "free adverticing" from a hobby like this, and that has a value much like the "product placing" they do in movies and TV productions where they give out free stuff to be seen in plain view. How many here have learned about products and what they are from this hobby...I know I have...everyone know Good Year and Firestone don't make donuts, no they make tires...just an example. Of course they want to protect their brand and should do so, but in this case the name is not used to increase the sales...it's a model of the thing originally made a long time ago for crying out loud, so one think they could be a bit easier on the licensing for this kind of thing. Ok, enough ranting.

Interesting. I just replied to your engine question in the Truck Stop section.

Here is a picture of how the Cat 3406 water to air aftercooler looks (the grey part). And here is an example of how an air to air aftercooler can look like. Many call this setup intercooler, both are the same thing as they cool the charged air. To straighten out the questionmarks about this, The Inter prefix in the device name originates from historic compressor designs. In the past, aircraft engines were built with Charge Air Coolers that were installed between multiple stages of supercharging, thus the designation of Inter. Likewise, the After prefix refers to cooler placed at the end of supercharging chain, so for a truck aftercooler is more correct.

Send them an email with what you want and they will get back to you with total, and you can pay with Paypal.

Money...that's the basic reason for the whole thing with licensing. Caterpillar license out to allmost everything from toys and models to phones, boots and clothes and everyone has to pay them to use their name and logos...and Caterpillar is known to protect the brand hard.

They may be light and good in every way but I don't like the look with super singles on a tractor, I think it looks cheap, a real truck should have dual wheels.

The latest reissue from the early 2000's didn't have the Caterpillar name either most likely because AMT didn't want to pay the licensing to Caterpillar to use the name.

Horsepower is not that hard to make in a truck diesel, getting around 800-1000 hp is not unusual if you do it right and you don't even need multiple turbos for that, I believe the strongest regular production truck engine is the Volvo D16 with 750 hp directly from the production line, with a little tinkering you can get it up to the numbers I mentioned. A air to air intercooler is just a radiator often made of aluminum that sits in front of the regular water radiator, the compressed hot air from the turbos goes in on one side and the cooled air to the intake manifold exits on the opposite side, the air tubes on the intercooler can also be at the top or bottom depending on how it fits best for the application.

Well that's old AMT kits for you, the instructions and parts never had numbers in the old days...I built a couple of these (not with Torsion Bars tho') back in the early 80's and did not have any severe problems with them as far as I can remember, so it's possible to build them. The W925 kit dates back as far as 1971 and it's only the first ones that has the Torsion Bar setup and that's where the W925 designation came from as the trucks equipped with the Torsion Bars had numbers wich ended with 25 (925 for the Conventional and 125 for the COE), sometime after the Challenge Transit Mixer kit AMT changed the suspension to the Hendrickson Walking Beam and they should also had changed the number to W923 to be right. The K123 came about the same time and it also had the Torsion Bars at first but was also changed to Walking Beam after some time. Yes the Snowman truck had Torsion Bars, so does the Movin' On truck and the Tyrone Malone Papa Truck transporter if you want to do them right. The chassis and drive train was not changed when they changed the tooling to do the T600 back in the 90's so that's like it was before, the Torsion Bar suspension was replaced with Walking Beam long before that. The Torsion Bar suspension is a bit demanding to put together but it's possible with a lot of patience. I have ordered directly from Auslowe a couple of times and they have good service, last time I ordered the KW Torsion Bar and Six Rod suspensions from them and I got them in a few weeks time.

Looks great!

This engine is a lower hp engine as it doesn't have an aftercooler, 3406 engines over 350 hp had aftercooler, either air to air or water to air depending on version and a 3406B (wich looks basically the same as the A except for the aftercooler) could have up to 425 hp. If a truck engine has two or more turbos it's often a two stage system as Brian said, one or two smaller turbos feeds a larger turbo to increase the boost, that's not that common on road going trucks nowadays, but Cat had the two stage system on some C15's and Cummins also had it with the NTC 475. Sometimes mostly on V8's and V12's you can use two smaller turbos instead of one larger as the smaller turbos spool up quicker.

Jack and Modelroundup is one of the best in the business, I order from him regurlaly and he allways gives great service.

Another legend gone, RIP.

Well I haven't gone in that deep in the workings of the Flame Thrower, now I know more.

I have several of these parts packs but I never noticed this before, but it seems like Revell took some artistic freedom or made it easy for themselves on the supercharged version and put the distributor (wich looks to be a Spauding Flame Thrower magneto) at the back. The only Ford engine that has the distributor at the back of the engine is the Y-block.

That engine is in the Custom kit and the 2 'n 1 kit, the factory stock kit above only has the stock 352 single four barrel option. This is the best FE in kit form IMHO and the '60 Starliner kit is a great donor for other '60-'64 Galaxies and as you say one of AMT's best, period! But, the 3X2 barrel option was not available on the 427, it was for the 390 (M-code '62-'63) and 406, (G-code '62-'63) the 427 was only available with single four barrel 410 hp (Q-code) or dual four barrels 425 hp (R-code) in '63½ and '64. Except for the 3X2 the 2X4 option is also in the Custom and 2 'n 1 kits and the single 4 is in the factory stock and 2 'n 1 kits. The Custom and 2 'n 1 kits also has the medium and long factory cast iron headers, a couple of valve cover options, the oval air cleaner and lots of other great stuff.