Ace-Garageguy

Gotta agree with ya there...

Gypsy's never-acknowledged love child from her affair with a golf-cart back in 2003 or so.

I did this one. If you like it, I'll tell you how. (It was built to represent Thompson's Challenger I as it appeared for its bare-metal press introduction in its first, non-supercharged iteration).

Real hot-rodders in the olden-days (when I was young) put alternators on their engines when they became available because they charge better at low revs...and REAL hot rods (as opposed to poseur pretend wanna-bees) are about function. They were, by the way, still making nailheads when alternators came out. Far as the carb sticker goes, everybody knows an El-de-brock (note spelling; I see a lot of mouth breathers spell it that way) sticker is worth at least 5 HP. The air filter on the first photo looks like a period sand-cast CalCustom (or that ilk) part. They were rough as cobs, and the outer flanges (visible) were "brushed" (with about a 40-grit stone). And far as block-hugger headers go, people WERE capable of welding back in the olden days too. Not every set of headers came in a box from some factory. Lotsa guys made headers that fit in close to the engine out of necessity. Like me. (Try putting a Chebby 327 in a Triumph Stag. ) .

What pleased me most today was Ed's Tuesday Arizona-sky picture. Please keep them coming, sir. What an incredibly beautiful place to live, and thanks for sharing your view with us.

Measure it. If it's 1 mm in diameter, it's about 1" in 1/24-1/25 scale. If it's 1.5 mm in diameter, it's about 1 1/2" in the same scales.

Looking good.

From looking at the instructions, it appears to me the spring eyes have to be rolled into the primary spring leaves by the builder...so what's to prevent a reasonably competent modeler from simply making new, longer primary leaves out of brass strip stock to get the length required, maybe making a second leaf too if necessary, and using the rest of the kit as is?

Great fun !!!

My favorite cars, so I have to love the logos...

Man you guys are good. Lotsa really beautiful work here.

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I mos' debinitely know dis one. Best remember to PM you this time, too.

I recall seeing in-out boxes on drag cars in the way back. It gives you a "neutral" essentially, so you don't have to sit there with a really heavy clutch depressed and the engine running. Another possible reason would be to provide a single gear ratio that's different from 1:1. 1:1 is all you'd get with a clutch alone.

If I'm seeing everything in the photo correctly, this really wouldn't work at all in reality. Turbo/carb setups can be either suck-through or blow-through. Suck-through would have the carbs upstream of the turbines like this (sorta), but the output of the compressor side of the turbos (which would include fuel that was introduced by the carb(s) would have to be ducted back into the intake manifold, which would also have to be sealed from the carb. A carb bolted to an airbox, floating in space over what looks like an ordinary 4bbl manifold makes no sense whatsoever. A blow-through installation normally has the carb(s) in a sealed box downstream of the turbos, but upstream of the manifold, and the turbo-compressor outputs blow nothing but air into the box, through the carb(s) (where fuel is introduced) and into the manifold.

It's definitely Lenco, either a direct drive in-out box or a planetary "reverser". A scattershield would really be a good idea, too.

Favorite shot AND the closest to being finished...

What a beauty! Wow, wow, wow.

I agree the interior is better than the outside, but then again...REAL aircraft sheetmetal work is beautiful. It doesn't have wonky edges, gaps, and jerky curves. It's as good as you get, and this is a very poor imitation.

My model bench is actually pretty neat at the moment, but the big-car shop out back looks a lot like that. Kinda hard to get much done in a mess of that magnitude. Maybe next weekend I'll have some time to clean and organize. Yeah, right.

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Apparently these little grilles are part of some special floral arrangement promo by Teleflora... Honestly, I usually eat Kosher dogs and lunch meats, just 'cause I'm not wild about all the oddball junk in most processed meat products.

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I don't get the connection either. I never have seen a B-17 made of rusty junk, covered in bubblegum welding and sporting fake parts. Guess I'm just not cool enough to understand.