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After what I have read about these engines the Buick/Pontiac and the Olds are based on the same basic design but Olds took their own way on some things so they differ in the head/valve cover area. Olds added one head bolt per cylinder on the intake side but otherwise the pattern are the same, so if you don't use that bolt hole you can use Olds heads on the Buick block but the other way around is not recomended. But as I haven't really worked on them I can't know for sure. The Jo-Han Olds F-85 is the only kit I can think of that can have this engine.

As far as I know it was Rover that bought the Buick/Pontiac/Oldsmobile aluminum 215 from GM back in 1963 and I believe it was in production until 2006. Holden uses Chevy engines, but of course can the 215 have been the starting point fo the Brabham engines anyway. I don't have the kit so I can't look but the old Jo-Han Olds F-85 kit can have one, in that case it should be the Olds version with slightly different heads and valve covers.

You can do fittings from Plastruct hexagonal rods, they come in different sizes and you can do a lot of fittings from one rod. If you know where things go and what they do it's easier to do it right, to plumb a dry sump oil system you almost have to have some knowledge of how it works to be able to do it correctly and JC's diagrams are a good help on the way. The DSOPSHU diagram on his Fotki album is a bit simplified and they forgot a very important part...the engine itself and all it's hookups, but the other diagrams are better. The ignition system is not that hard, in NASCAR they use one distibutor and two coils and two ignition boxes (mostly MSD 6's) through a switch where one coil and box are for backup, the ignition boxes are often mounted on or under the passenger side of the dashboard. The firing order should be 13726548 and the Ford engines number the cylinders from the front 1234 on the passenger side and 5678 on the drivers side, the distributor runs anti-clockwise, but...as long as you dont split the ignition wires in the middle on the distributor cap one can't really see how you have wired it if you don't go very close.

Very nice build.

One of the best models I have seen of this car.

I don't think Pegasus does any other disc brakes, and the difference in 19 an 23 inch wheels aren't that big, about 4 millimeters total so I think they would work just fine.

Of course you can, here is my version of the old AMT kit built about 16 years ago.

It's not only this country, it's going on over here too. The "political correctness" tends to be more and more silly for every day.

The 348 came for the 1958 model year and the 409 came for the 1961 model year so for a 58 Impala it should be 348. The visual outside difference between them is the placement of the oil dip stick, drivers side for the 348 and passenger side for the 409, the 348 was available with tri-power but not the 409 as it had 2 X 4 barrel instead and the most powerful 409 was rated 425 hp in 1963, otherwise they look pretty much the same. The 409 was enlarged to 427 late 1962 for 1963 and they were called Z11 (under)rated 430hp, 50 cars were built and were developed for drag racing. The Revell 58 Impala is a nice kit and I have a couple in my stash.

In my humble opinion the Monogram brand should only go on the original Monogram tooling kits. The way they do it now it's just confusing, Revell branding on old Monogram kits and Monogram branding on both old and new Revell kits, if you don't know your model kit history you can be seriously fooled. AMT was the same before Round 2 took over, after Ertl bought the brands MPC and AMT every model kit were branded AMT-Ertl regardless of the original manufacturer wich was way confusing, Round 2 has corrected that and reinstated the MPC name, and they have bought Linberg and Polar Lights and added them to their lineup.

Lost count a long time ago.

The 302 / 5.0 engie yes...EFI no. I have several of the original issues of the 3 Window Coupe, the Speedwagon, the Roadster, the Tudor Sedan, the 5 Window Coupe and the Rat Roaster Roadster and I have looked in all of them, the only kits with the EFI setup are the Speedwagon Woody, and the 5 Window kits, No EFI in the 3 Window, the Roadster or the Tudor Sedan. I don't know what's included in later reissues after the original issue tho' as I don't have any of them.

Buzzin' Dozen!! Cool engine choise.

Yes the 55 Sedan kit also has poseable steering.

It looks more like the AMT 55 Chevy to me, the Revell 55 chassis has separate exhaust systems.

Well it's the only 1:25 scale KW W900 full detail glue kit we have available to us right now as the old AMT W925 mold is destroyed beyond use and the old Monogram now Revell 1:25 scale kits are lesser detail snappers...so I hope they will continue reissuing it now and then. But they could do with a break for a while as kits based on the W900 has been out in several different versions lately, the red W900, the Aussie T900, the Dump Truck and the Wrecker, all these in a couple of years. I only wish Revell AG would reissue the K100 and K100 Aerodyne kits sometime soon...the prices on ebay for the old kits are not that pleasing.

I couldn't agree more. Very Nice Build!

I placed an order a couple of weeks ago and got a reply with a paypal invoice a couple of days later, I haven't got anything in the mail yet but overseas mail takes some time.

As far as I know they don't have tubes inside tubes on the chassis for crank case evac purposes, just the chassis tube itself, and the oil vapour in the evac fumes makes an oil film on the inside of the tubing so it will not corrode. A modern nitro engine developes somewhere around 10 000 hp so it's more than enough power to spin the wheels of any size, no start line pad can hold more than 1 500 - 2 000 hp regardless of how well it's prepared so they slip 8 000 hp through the 6 disc clutch they use nowadays at the start to prevent wheel spin and slowly apply more clutch pressure up to about half track where the clutch is fully locked.

I wouldn't worry too much about corrosion inside the chassis tubes, there is enough oil vapor in the crank case fumes to prevent that from ever happening. The "puke" tanks got larger after the oil down penalty rules we have today came some years ago, they have to contain all oil from the engine if it blows up so the puke tanks got larger and more efficient, and the addition of full cover belly pans with capacity to contain all oil from the engine has minimized the oil spillage on the track....but sometimes it happens anyway. Here are a couple of pictures of modern "puke" tanks. First for a Nitro Funny Car And a Top Fuel Dragster.

Yes you are right, I was a bit hasty there...the 289 became available in the Falcon Sprint late 1964 and as an option engine for other models after that, 1963 and early 1964 the 260 was the only V8 option for Falcons. But two Falcons with a 427 were made for racing purposes in 1964, one for Dick Brannan and one for Phil Bonner...and they were campained in the A/FX category and the match racing cirquit...but that's another story.

Yes KFS has most of the parts needed to do a similar truck and their stuff are very nice, but I think it will add up to about the same cost as the complete kit when you have bought everything and you still need to scratch build some stuff anyway. But of course, if you can't get hold of the kit it's a way to do one.

Yes it's most likely meant to be a 260 as the 289 wasn't available in the Falcon, but the people who did it from Trumpeter can not have seen a 221-302 small block Ford engine in real life because the kit engine is very oversize, a real 221-302 small block Ford is quite small compared to other V8 enignes...I have two of them myself, one 289 and one 302 based 347 stroker, so I have hands on experience of these engines. The gearbox is another thing they can't have seen when they developed the kit, it looks like a weird combination of a C4 automatic and a manual transmission, the steering linkage looks a bit weird too, the real one doesn't really look like that. But these are decent kits over all and all we have available to us at this time and your build will for sure be great Angel.

I haven't seen or found one yet but I know they exsist, as far as box art the same thing goes for the W925, all the later reissues has Walking Beam but on the earlier ones you can't see on the box wich suspension the kit has. One can wonder why AMT gave the kit the K123 designation as it wasn't correct when the first tooling had the Torsion Bar...it is correct now tho', the W925 was correct at first but it became wrong when they changed to Walking Beam.

Yes the Ertl Transtar CO 4070A and the Transtar II has not been reissued under any other lable as far as I know, both has Detroit Diesel 8V-71 engines and the Transtar II was released in two versions, one with the same Air Ride as the 4070A and one with Walking Beam.