Ace-Garageguy

That may very well be, but it would be quite unusual to think of a 7 liter pushrod engine as a variant of a 27 liter SOHC engine. There also appear to be other significant differences between the designs, one major one being that the Phantom engine had a one-piece block while the Merlin's was two-piece, split on the horizontal crankshaft centerline. These sound like very different engines indeed, though both are V12s with wet cast-iron cylinder liners. It may be accurate to say the Phantom III engine was a scaled-down and entirely reworked design very loosely based on the Merlin. Do you have sources? I'm not being argumentative...I'd just like to know the whole story here.

I wonder if it had a backup-beeper.

I'm not thinking that styling is #1 in a warship designer's list of priorities. Besides conventional weapons systems, she's rumored to include a rail-gun in her arsenal...which could give her firepower more like a battleship.

That "L bracket" has a name in the hot-rod world. It's called a "suicide" spring mount. It got it's moniker back in the days when some of the welding and fab work wasn't all the way up to snuff, and the mount, which takes a lot of bending loads from being cantilevered off of the front crossmember...broke off...with pretty disastrous consequences if you were moving rapidly. Still, it's one of my favorite means of hanging a solid, leaf-spring front axle.

How can this be, when the Merlin started life as a 27 liter SOHC engine (2 cams, one per cylinder bank), and the unit in the Phantom III was only around 7 liters, with a pushrod valvetrain, single cam-in-block ?

I was working on Z-cars for a dealership when they were introduced. There was a running joke at the time that nobody had ever seen one with the stock wheel-covers. They were so appliance-like blah compared to the rest of the car, that every one that went out of our place had been fitted with mags

There are Merlins, Daimler-Benz V-12s, and a radial or two in the Airfix (and other) 1/24 warbird kits.

I would imagine that, as she's just coming out of dry-dock, she's far from complete, is lacking a lot of onboard equipment and systems, and of course fuel and water...all of which will make her ride lower.

And "Big Al", an Allison-powered '34 Ford built by the same guy who built the 4-engined Fiat above... Or how about a BMW Isetta with an Allison?

Oh yes...wild and crazy stuff. The "Babs" LSR car in post #8 began life as Chitty #4.

The smaller Ranger engine as used in the PT-19 was an inline 6, the L440. Far as car engines in planes, I worked on a project putting a Chevy LS6 in a carbon-fiber Lancair Legacy. The plan was eventually to race it at Reno with an LS9, but a slicker aircraft design, the Nemesis, came out that could run the same class, and there was no reasonable hope of beating it. Project halted and sold.

Not many. Here's a link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_V-770

There have been quite a few cars built around aero engines. One of the notables was the "Babs" land-speed-record car. In 1926, running a 27-liter Liberty aircraft engine, she set a world LSR record of 171 mph. There's a fascinating story that goes with this car. Arfons "Green Monster" cars were powered by a variety of aircraft engines, from Allison V-12s to jets. This crazy thing from Blastolene runs a 12.7 liter Ranger V12 aero engine as well. There's been no shortage of radial-engined contrivances either.

Define the "question" I evaded, please.

You said, sarcastically: "Totally agree with Harry. It is much easier to force hundreds or thousands of non-technical users to install and figure out a third party browser than it is to fix the website. Use Firefox or Chrome." You're saying the website needs to be fixed to be compatible with a web-browser that's the joke of the industry. I'm saying that anyone with a brain ought to be able to install a web-browser on their own computer that actually works. it ain't brain surgery.

Then YOU pay for the website to be made compatible with IE...which is crapp. Any reasonably intelligent 8-year-old can install Firefox or Chrome.

This is the truth, and a very real and important truth that the knee-jerk electric-car-crowd seem to ignore. But the Tesla has also convincingly demonstrated that a very stylish, high-quality and high-performance vehicle is possible with electric power. Musk is definitely on the right track with his interlinking projects, like Solar City, that aim to take the generation of electricity and distribute it over many rooftops. Guess the Hellcat driver turned off his traction-control, and red-lighted to boot. Would have been an interesting race.

Pizza recipe sounds great. I've been tending to use more and more too, but not to the levels you have attained. I'll have to watch it. Don't need a toxic-garlic-reaction.

Good luck with your project Mickael, and keep us posted on your progress. Welcome to the forum, too.

Beautiful.

You have the right idea, but to get a square and symmetrical frame at the end, you need accurate cuts. To get accurate cuts you need accurate lines to follow. Here's a tutorial I did on the subject, and it's the same way I zee frames on the very expensive full-scale traditional rods I build in real life. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=70728 Of course, if you zee a frame, it won't fit the rear floor any more. You'll have to modify the floor. You have the right idea on chopping the roof, but again...accuracy counts. Cut very carefully.

Couple more minor points...first to address Greg's original question: "Here's a thread... http://www.modelcars...showtopic=97788 using photos to enhance their answers... Why not include a picture to enhance your message and really get the point across?" It's very easy to upload photos here sourced on the web, to illustrate technical answers. Occasionally it can be a little sticky, but there is always a way. Also, photos uploaded from computers, phones etc. are very often not visible to visitors, or even members who aren't logged in. People thinking they're not getting a lot of feedback on their work may want to remember this.

Excellent. Here's another fossil.

Yeah, that $2.99 a month for almost unlimited P'bucket storage is pretty hefty. What can you buy for $3 these days? It's what, about half a six-pack?