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Looks great Chris!!

Looking good Sean.

The biggest problem is to find a '68 Barracuda kit to build from, the AMT (ex MPC) Barracuda kit reissued several times in the last decades is a 69 and the old MPC 68 Barracuda annual kits are hard to find for reasonable money. The 1968 is the only model year for this style Barracuda (together with the 68 Hemi Dart) classified for NHRA (and most others) Super Stock competition with the Hemi so the 69 will not work if you want to be correct as a 69 Hemi Barracuda never was built. But there are some resin casters who does the 68 Barracuda or has a transkit with the front, the hood and rear panel to do a 68 from a 69 so all hope is not lost, but it would be great if Revell did a 68 Barracuda based on the 68 Hemi Dart kit as we need a better one than what's available to us at this point.

I have that kit and I don't see an oil tank anywhere in my kit, it just has an air tank on the frame, a fuel tank and a water tank on the truck bed, as there are no radiator they circulate water from the water tank to the engine and back. After what I can see on the engine itself it's a wet sump so all the oil is inside the engine....so there are no need fro any outside oil lines, if it would have been a dry sump engine you would have had a flat shallow oil pan, a pump at one side of the engine and a not so large oil tank as you only need 5-10 quarts of oil in a dry sump system.

That Toyota is not the current one. The 2015 car looks like this.

The W925 kit has the wrong designation after the change to the Hendrickson Walking Beam but the K123 kit is correct, the K123 designation would have been wrong with the torsion bar suspension tho'. I don't know when AMT changed the suspension on the W925 kit, some say they changed when they did the Challenge Transit Mixer kit, but after what I have found out the Challenge Transit Mixer kit still had the torsion bar, so it must have been after that.

Nice work JT. I haven't forgotten about what we were takling about back in December, I'll get back to you on that soon.

They don't use the Impala anymore, the Chevy is a SS and the SS has a distinct cove on the sides behind the front wheel wich the Fusion doesn't have.

You don't need to worry about oil lines as it's all internal on this particular engine, fuel and ignition are the things you need, this 454 use the same 18436572 firing order as a regular Chevy V8, you can use a 7-4 swap where cylinder 7 and 4 change places in the order, a common thing on Chevy race engines. For the fuel system, I agree with Ace, if you understand the function it's a lot easier to get it right, his post explains how the fuel system works good so if one follow that it's quite easy to plumb. I have a couple of schematic pictures explaining the same thing, these are for Top Fuel and Funny Car Nitro burning engines, the basic layout are the same for other fuels such as Methanol or Gasoline but a Nitro engine needs a lot more fuel so they have more distribution points and larger fuel pumps. So for a Gas or Methanol engine you can disregard the dual fuel pumps and the lines going in to the back of the cylinder heads as that's only used in nitro burning engines, some Methanol engines have fuel distribution both at the injector and at the intake manifold under the blower and some put in all the fuel at the injector only so that's up to you what system you want to use. To further explain how a mechanical fuel system works, the fuel pump allways delivers the same ammount of fuel and you regulate how much fuel the engine gets with how much you return back to the tank, less return the engine runs rich and much return the engine runs lean, and you want to run the engine as lean as possible without burning valves or pistons as a too lean engine does just that. Nitro works quite different as Nitromethane (CH3NO2) allready has 2 oxygene atoms bound within it wich Gasoline and Methanol doesn't have, so they try to get as much fuel as possible in to the combustion chamber to make more power, and that's why they have a lot larger fuel pumps and more fuel distribution points.

I got one of these the other day to complete the 359 "small window" collection, I allready have the original T500-500, the T500 and the T522 Wrecker.

Nice work Jarda, I really like to follow your builds. I agree with the others, it looks better if the top of the sleeper are the same hight as the top of the cab.

Of course I use the instructions. I go through them quite thoroughly when I open the box often immediately after I bought the kit (that's why allmost all of my kit boxes are opened), partly to see what the kit contains and to see if something is missing when the kit is new and it's possible to do something about it, and partly to see how things goes together. Then when I build the kit I only glance at them now and then when I'm not certain where a part will go or/and how they are assembled but most of the basic assemblies on most model kits are quite easy to understand and after 40 years of building and looking at model kits and real cars I mostly go by experience. Another thing...I rarely build a kit "out of box" and when you modify a kit, kitbash and change things around the instructions are kind of useless.

How about the engine in the stock version of the AMT 34 Ford 5 Window Coupe, it's a bone stock 21 stud flattie and has some optional hop up parts. The axles and suspension could also work.

Yes one engine runs in reverse, no problem to achieve, it just needs a cam shaft grinded in reverse and reverse the oil pump If they are coupled together you only need one starter.

Wheels with tires, the 10 hole disc wheels from the AMT Kenworth K100 Aerodyne, the 5 hole front wheels from the Autocar A64B, Dayton wheels from the GMC Astro95/Chevrolet Titan 90 and others, the larger 11.00 X 22 wheels from the White Freightliner. Maybe a kit to do a Single Drive and Day Cab from the Dual Drive Sleeper Cab White Freightliner, AMT has done both versions. Thermo King Reefer unit with tank from the Ertl Great Dane Trailer. Smoke Stacks, Horns, Roof Lights are some other things. Fuller Transmissions, are in several kits. Rear Suspensions, the KW Air Glide 100 from the K100 kits, KW Torsion Bar from the old W925, Mack Camel Back. There are certainly more, but these comes to mind right now.

I also like these Bicentennial KW's. There are more limited edition trucks that can be done. Kenworth had except for the 1976 Bicentennial Edition the 1981-82 Gold Nugget, the 1985 Liberty Edition, the 1990 007 Edition and the 1979 Canada 25 Year Silver Edition, and the 1973 trucks with the gold KW grille bug emblem for the Kenworth 50 year anniversary. Peterbilt had the Patriot paint scheme for 1976 and certainly some more that I haven't found out about yet. Mack had the All American Stars and Stripes paint scheme for their 70th anniversary 1970 and for sure some more, they also had a bicentennial edition as most of the other manufacturers. There are also some limited edition trucks from Australia, they have Bicentennial trucks and Gold Nugget trucks and for sure some more.

As I need a couple of these conversion kits I have tried to order this kit for a couple of months now but to no avail, when I first looked it was out of stock, then the caster took a vacaiton for some weeks and since they came back these kits are still out of stock...irritating.

These side loaders for containers are still in use, at least here where I live.

Unfortunate, I ordered from them and the parts I got were great, I didn't have to wait very long either.

Aha, I have to look into that. Yes the old Revell FC rims are terrible, they were most likely meant to be either Centerline's Auto Drag or Cragar's Super Trick, wich was very common rims on drag cars back then, but they missed the target by about a mile or two when they tooled them up because they don't look even close to either of them.

Over here they are quite common,

Nice!!

The Mustang II FC is the main reason I bought it, and I got this combo kit for less money than the Mustang alone usually goes for on ebay.

The Kenworth 4 bag Dual Air suspension came in 1961 wich I believe was replaced with the Air Glide 100 8 bag, and you could also have Walking Beam, "Monkey Motion" or "Big Six" suspension. But the torsion bar was popular for on highway trucks.

Nice build!!