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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.

Well if you don't want chrome plating it's very easy to remove, it's a lot harder (and more expensive) to do it the other way. I'm also going to get at least get one or two of these when they come out.

I thought I had commented this but it looks like I haven't. Great build from one of my favourite movies, I'm planning to do one myself one of these days.

Cool build, it looks great!

I believe you mean 377, Peterbilt has not come up to the 900 series yet as the highest model number in the Peterbilt lineup is 587. The only kit manufacturer I know of that does a Detroit Series 60 is Italeri and it's in their Peterbilt kits, Revell AG did rebox some of the Italeri kits and issued them under the Revell name and the 377A/E is one of them.

Interesting thread. If someone does good looking front wire wheels for dragsters I'm in for some sets.

I'm not taking away that it's a nice model because it is and I do like it. I only think the "Gasser" term is recklessly used nowadays for cars that doesn't fit within the gasser rules, just because the front is up in the air doesn't automaticly mean it's a Gasser...it needs more to be that. Most of the drag cars had the front up high back in the day before the "wrinkle wall" slicks came out for easier weight transfer and many of the cars people today call Gassers are in fact Altereds.

It seems to be converter dollys in all of the AMT kits containing the short Trailmobile 27 foot trailer...I have one kit of a single pup trailer with one dolly and one dual pup trailer kit wich has two dollys, one for each.

Looks to be a little high in the front for a Gasser, I believe the centerline of the front of the crank pulley couldn't be raised more than 24 inches from the ground in the Gas classes back in the day.

Nice, I love the old #28 paint schemes. You know Revell recently issued full detail 2017 Ford Fusions and Chevrolet SS kits don't you.

Well I have a couple of them Ertl trailers so I knew what I was talking about. The Great Dane Reefer and Dry Goods trailer are basically the same except for the reefer unit, fuel tank and front panel.

The BJ trailer was a Brown and has a curbside door and a Thermo King reefer unit wich the AMT Fruehauf trailer doesn't have. I have seen some use the Ertl Great Dane Reefer instead as it has both a curbside door and the right style reefer unit, just add some Evergreen half round .040 strips to even out the ribbing on the sides and it will look quite close, the curbside door is not exactly at the correct place but it's better than no door at all. As for the truck chassis if you want to do the original BJ truck from the Papa Truck, the Papa Truck frame is 250 inch wheelbase and the BJ truck had a standard 180 inch (wich the Revell truck has), the difference is 70 inches, divide that with 25 to get it to scale...just over 71 millimeters.

Looks promising

Hasegawa has a nice Willys MB with the Bantam trailer.

How the magnetos are made is different depending on manufacturer , some has a regular distributor cap, some has the plug wires come out of the sides of the magneto and some just under the top, so it's best to look at reference photos for the particular magneto. As we talk about distributors. There is a reason why they are placed where they are, the distributor is driven from the camshaft through a sprocket and the distributor drives the oil pump in the engine, so on OE cars the distributors are right above the oil pump. So most of the Ford engines has the distributor at the front of the engine pointing straight up and the oil pump are under inside the oil sump, Ford Y-block has it at the rear at an angle towards the passenger side and the oil pump is on the outside of the block on the bottom drivers side, the flathead V8 is different as the distributor don't drive the oil pump, the distributor is mounted at the front of the timing cover on the early Flathead V8's and the later 8BA-CM has a angle drive on the upper timing gear and a regular distributor is placed at an angle on the passenger side. The Mopar big block including 426 Hemi has it in front of the head on the passenger side at an angle and the oil pump is located at the front bottom outside of the driver side of the block. Buick 66-forward and Cadillac 67-forward OHV has it the opposite way, distributor on the drivers side at an angle and the oil pump outside of the block at the bottom of the passenger side. Chevy big and small block, Mopar small block and early Hemi, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Cadillac 49-67 OHV and Buick Nailhead has it straight up at the rear of the engine and the oil pump under inside the sump. On many modern cars there are no distributors at all, they have coils for each cylinder and the ignition is timed from the computer through sensors on the engine.

Very nice and clean build.

Of course. I took out one of my Thunderbolt kits and measured, the two fabric inserts for the Thunderbolt back seat are 19 mm wide and and total length with the seat and back rest is 44 mm, and the space between the vertical black lines in the pattern are close to 1.5 mm. The sides and middle of the back seat and the rest of the interior is vinyl and can easily be done with paint. I have wanted to get the decals I suggested for a long time for my 62-65 Max Wedge and Race Hemi and Thunderbolt builds and I thought others would like to have them too, but I haven't found them anywhere on the aftermarket and I thought someone would make them as I think there is a market for them, but nothing so far. If I had the skill to do them myself I would have done them a long time ago but I'm not that familiar with design programs for computers.