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Good to see you back modeling Rickard.

Nice work as usual Rickard, are you done with the house?

The "stick-like" thing poking out from the cam cover you are refering to is a cam driven mechanical fuel pump (or fuel pumps if there are two) feeding the fuel injection system. Top Fuel and Funny Car engines doesn't use any water pumps as they don't have any water in them and dry sump oil systems are more used on Pro Stock, Competition Eliminator, NASCAR and that type of engines, but Funny Car engines have a dry sump oil system to be able to mount the engines lower in the chassis without the oil pan getting too close to the ground. Here are a couple of pictures on Hilborn FI systems. And here is a typical dry sump system.

A while ago I showed my new car but it wasn't really as I wanted it, I got the wheels and tires I have been waiting for yesterday and mounted them today, now I'm satisfied with the stance and how it looks. Before with the old 14 inch wheels. Now with the new 15 X 7 and 15 X 8 inch wheels.

As far as I know they only raced the Mk IV at only two races in 1967, Le Mans and Sebring, and only 6 cars were built, 1968 and 69 they went back to the Mk I as the rules were changed to maximum 5 litre engines and Ford themselves got out as a factory team.

Isn't the white one a J-Car because it doesn't look like a Mk IV.

The only kit I have ever given up on is this one. It's a modified reissue of the Orange Crate kit and if the Crate is difficult this one is even worse as it doesn't build up the same way...well some things are but other things doesn't. I bought it back in the 70's and I thought it looked cool but it was unbuildable at my age, I think I was 13-14 years old at the time, I've got one more (and a couple of the Crate's) and will give it another go when I feel up to the challenge.

Nice, I built that one a long time ago back in the late 80's and I still have one more in my stash. Wich version are they?, the rarest are the first issue with Air Ride, the later ones had Walking Beam.

I have to order one soon.

I don't have this one and have looked for one on ebay but the prices hasn't been right...soon I can get one for a better price.

I built the Revell AG KW K100 flat top a long long time ago...back in the 80's when they first came out...and I want to have another go, so this is welcome as the prices on ebay for all Revell AG trucks are ridiculous. The only difference with the flat top and the Aerodyne is the roof section wich is a separate piece from the rest of the cab, the top bunk is also included in the flat top kit if I remember correctly and I think even the roof windows are in the kit. Maybe they will reissue the K100 Aerodyne soon too.

IMHO the best looking 427 SOHC so far is in the AMT 33 Willys kits, the one in the MPC Malco Gasser isn't that bad either, the one in the AMT 66 Galaxie is also workable. The SOHC from the Jo-Han Maverick is a hybrid as it shares the engine block and heads with the Boss 429, it does not do that in the real world...the 427 SOHC is based on the FE family and the Boss 429 is based on the 385 family, two completely different engines, the valve covers/cam covers are not the correct shape and the plug holes are not in the right spots ( a common fault with many model kit SOHC's)...but on the other hand...no kit SOHC is perfect. But this thread is kind of old...allmost 10 years...so the original poster has probably allready chosen the engine.

Nice Mack.

Nice build, a AMT R-series is a lot better than the old Ertl kit would have been as the DM is totally wrong, and you have used the only usable parts from it. If you go by the movie sound track the "Rubber Duck" truck would have had a Detroit Diesel 2-stroke engine, but the pictures tell a different story, the truck has a dual intake tube air cleaner so the engine should be a ENDT 676 "Tip Turbine", and you hear the 4-stroke engine in some places in the movie where they haven't replaced the sound...same goes for the air horns, you don't get that high pitch tones that are in the movie sound track from the long horns the Rubber Duck truck has, they have a much lower pitch sound wich also can be heard in some places in the movie.

Nice truck!

That's why I wanted to give out the correct information, I know there aren't many Scania's over in the US and has never been allthough Scania has done some attempts to market the trucks in North America from time to time, and nowadays the leaf sprung trucks aren't that common overall as air ride suspensions has pretty much taken over completely. I grew up with the old Scania's as a couple of my neighbours had them with this exact rear suspension system when I was a kid, one neighbour had a LS 76, a LS 110, a LS 111 and a couple of T 142H's at different times, another neighbour had a LBS 141 (and some Volvo F series after that), and I have built the Italeri Scania's and noticed the misstake right away.

Yes he had a Cobra replica there.

All FE engines except the 427 SOHC looks pretty much the same regardless of displacement as they all are from the same basic design. The thing that are different for the late 1963 406 and all 427 engine blocks from the 332-352-360 (Truck)-361 (Edsel)-390-428 blocks are the cross bolted mains...and the 1965 forward 427's was "side oilers" with casted in outside oil gallery on the drivers side of the block ...otherwise they pretty much looks the same except for valve covers, intake systems and air cleaners. The 427 had a variety of cylinder heads, low, medium and high riser wich is the shape of the intake runners, and intake manifolds for them, there was also a tunnel port version but they are very rare, the low and medium differences are barely noticable but the high riser are quite higher...and of course the SOHC Hemi wich looks totally different as it only shares the engine block design with the others. The engines in the AMT 60 Ford Galaxie Starliner kits represents an early pre 1965 version of the FE and can if you have the 2 'n 1 kit be built as a bone stock 352 or 390 with single 4bbl carburator, a 390 or 406 with 3X2 bbl or a 427 with 2X4 bbl, there are two sets of cast iron race headers, short for for the 406 and long for the 427. The first stock only version kit only has the 352 1X4 bbl wich also could go as a 390, the custom kit has the other two versions the 390 or 406 3X2 bbl or 427 2 X 4 bbl, and the 2 'n 1 kit has all three versions and you get two complete engines with this kit...in my opinion these kits has the best FE done in kit form so far, and this kit also has the best 9" rear end I have seen. The AMT 66-67 Fairlane/Cyclone engine are later versions of the FE with different valve covers and intake systems and the 427 version of the 66 Fairlane has 2X4 bbl, these engines are also quite good. The AMT 62 Thunderbird also has a decent 390 FE. The Revell 428 engines in the 69-70 Mustangs are also not bad and you can find a nice high riser 427 in the 64 Thunderbolt kits.

Yes I do...but it's not a hot rod...it's a 32-33 Rockne.

Italeri has done a mistake on the instructions regarding the rear bogie on the Scanias, part 55 is drawn the wrong way around and should be turned 180 degrees to be correct. The L shaped outer parts on that beam should be above and free of the triangular shaped parts at the rear of the springs and not glued to them for the suspension to work and move freely, parts 47 and 48 is the hydraulic cylinder, part 49 is the pivot that actuates the motion of the lift and part 55 is the beam that pushes down on the triangle shaped parts when you want to put more weight on the drive axle if it's slippery or lift the third axle from the ground when the truck is unloaded. The way Italeri has drawn it the lift wouldn't do anything as the #55 beam wich isn't attached to the springs in any way on a real truck goes down when the hydraulic piston goes out. Here is how it should look to be correct if the third axle (lift axle) is on the ground.

Yes a Challenger chassis would work fine if you could find a good one, but there are not many good ones available for 1:25th scale. Revell has two Challengers, the old Monogram 1:24th scale T/A kit and the diecast based 1:25th scale one, the 1:24th chassis will not work on a 1:25th car, and the diecast based chassis is a bit crude and you have to cut loose the engine bay from the body to use in the resin body as it doesn't have one. The thing about using either the Revell Sox & Martin '70 'Cuda or the old Jo-Han Sox & Martin '71 'Cuda as a base for an E-body Mopar Pro Stocker is that you get most all the parts needed to do an early 70's Pro Stock car, if you use any other model as a base you have to source many parts like the engine with all hop up parts, wheels and other things needed from other kits.

No it had a Challenger chassis, the Challenger and 'Cuda chassis are as Steve says pretty much the same except for a slight difference in wheelbase, the Challenger chassis is 2 inches longer than the 'Cuda wich equals up to slightly over 2 millimeters in 1:25th scale.

A Peterbilt 379 we passed just south of Modesto CA on Hwy 99 a couple of months ago. Another 379 spotted on I 5 by the Outlets at Tejon just north of Grapevine CA at the same trip. A Peterbilt 379 we passed over the Tejon moutain pass around Pyramid Lake on I 5 north of Santa Clarita CA. A Peterbilt 362 on Hwy 91 just east of the I 710 the same day. Allt of these were Peterbilts, I didn't see many good looking KW's that day. A day later, Peterbilt 379 Tanker. This is not how you want to see a truck. A couple of trucks from your neighbourhood Clayton, Peterbilt 379 and 359 at a friend of ours place up in Hesperia CA.

Nice progress so far...I love them old Pro Stockers. I think you know already but for those who don't, the wheelbase on the Challenger is 2 inches longer at 110" and the 'Cuda only has 108", so to be correct you have to lengthen the chassis 2 millimeters behind the front seats to get the front wheels centered in the wheel well. What Challenger chassis would you use Kevin? The Jo-Han or Revell S&M 'Cuda chassis are IMHO the best options if you want to do a 70's E-body Mopar Pro Stock car. As far as I know there are no 1:25 scale 1970's Challenger Pro Stock kits out there with a decent chassis and drive train, and except for the wheelbase differences the chassis are the same for both the 'Cuda and Challenger

Replicas & Miniatures Co of Maryland has parts to make the Revell 32 chassis more stock, or should I say more traditional, with rear transverse leafspring, unfortunately he has no website but you can get hold of Norm at this address: Replicas & Miniatures Company of Maryland 317 Roosevelt Ave., S.W Glen Burnie, MD 21061 He can also be reached at his email: replmincomd@aol.com