Ace-Garageguy

Cool. One of my favorite bizarro Detroit spaceships.

A great many nail polish colors are lacquer too. There's a huge color selection, different from store to store. I've been picking up bottles of it for $.99 at the thrift store to experiment with. And if you're a little insecure in your masculinity, you can get your girlfriend or wife to buy it for you.

You can put the distributor in any old way you want and number "one" on the cap becomes the terminal the distributor rotor happens to be pointing to when #1 cylinder is at TDC firing position (as long as the distributor shaft engages the oil-pump drive). All you have to to from there is to get the rest of the wires in the proper sequence ("firing order"). As Force says, you just need to allow sufficient swing or rotation room on the distributor housing so you can set the timing without having the vacuum advance can (if the engine even has one) interfering with something. Simple as that sounds, I've seen "mechanics" crank and crank and crank an engine for hours, with it popping and spitting out the intake...scratching their heads like chimps and mindlessly swapping wires around. Sometimes, it's really a good idea to actually UNDERSTAND what you're doing.

The Hellcat blower is not directly visible in the engine bay. Though made by Japan's IHI, the installation is visually unique to the Hellcat. Not terribly hard to scratchbuild something that looks like this, and to do the other visible mods to make a passable model. PS. One of our clients took a ride in one a few days ago with a factory rep. Word is that it's really more like 735HP. Impressive.

No. Most times one shows up, she seems to have a mustache...and not a "girl's" mustache.

You got your ultimate girls in their ultimate cars... Marilyn... Sophia... Rita... Paulette Goddard with her Rolls Phantom II... Diana Dors owned a '49 Delahaye... ...and a Caddy ... ...and apparently liked to sit on Maseratis... Kate Moss drives an old Merc... ...and whoever this incredible babe is...she may not own it, but I'd certainly buy it for her. And then you got your "get-the-girls" cars...

Great looking model. I especially like the work on the engine...great contrast between the correct-looking glossy engine and the metalizers and black bits. Very nice.

Looks like there's the nose of a shoebox Ford sitting on it, too.

Got an HEI distributor, a fuel pressure regulator, a rebuild kit for a Rochester 2GC (from my '63 Olds) and a 20" generic turbo muffler...all to convert my old '89 GMC longbed to non-EFI and get it back working for a living. Also "got" the template made for the adapter to mount the 2GC to the EFI throttle-body manifold. Now just have to carve it out of 1/2" aluminum plate. Tired of having lazy vehicles sitting around on the dole.

M3 Roundish fenders... M5, more square fenders... Based on that, yours does indeed look like an M5.

So, um, you couldn't have turned off the valve and drained the system BEFORE it froze? I'm not being mean. I have some exterior water lines that are temporary during my house renovation, the forecast was for sub-freezing temps for several days last week, and I just closed all the supply valves and drained the lines. Now I don't have to blame anybody.

Looks like an M3 to me. Here's a wikipee article about it and the IH M5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Half-track

Fine fine work on that tub. Really nice.

We've got some moron who thinks he's Ken Block driving his pickup around the neighborhood sideways this AM. Jeez. Are some people REALLY stupid enough to think to themselves "I saw a man on youtube driving wild so I'll go out and do that in a residential neighborhood with kids playing, pets running around and people out walking" ? Yup. Moron.

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So, because somebody "never got in trouble for it", that makes it OK, eh? BS. INTENTIONALLY scaring or startling someone can have tragic consequences. WHAT IF the guy had been so startled, he fell off the loading dock, landed wrong and broke his back, and was in a wheelchair for the rest of his life? Pretty funny, huh? If MY boss had done that to me, I'd have ripped him a new one, filed a complaint with HIS boss and OSHA , and gone on to find another job. With adults.

Great looking model. What jumps out at me is the very realistic-looking exhaust residue behind the cowl and on the wing root. Perfectly executed, and really brings that plane to life.

Yeah, the teams have the money to hire the talent that can do the work right.

Valspar, Rustoleum and even John Deere also sell rattle-cans of JD yellow paint. Apparently there are more than one JD yellow though.

Maybe this... Krylon Products Krylon 1816 John Deere Yellow Farm and Implement Paint - 12 oz Aerosol ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or... Spray Paint, New John Deere Yellow, 11 Oz. 8-20957 Spray Paint, New John Deere Yellow, 11 Oz.

Or maybe it says "greetings Earth men. My mommanem had a ol' ford jus' like dis one back on Uranus. Wanna sell 'er cheap? Y'oughta 'cause the paint's scratched."

I used to use Elmer's wood glue. Takes a long time to dry and all the parts have to be jigged or pinned as it sets up, but it's very strong...stronger than the old Testors tube glue for wood models. It was casein back then, PVA today. i also had good results adhering the tissue covering with Elmers. Again, it takes patience, and has to be entirely dry before the water-spritz shrinking begins. Sig still makes both butyrate and nitrate dope for model planes.

Look in some "Switchers" kits if you have access to any. The carbs, stacks and blower you have on the tree, with the spike on the stack and the holes in the carbs and blower, are pretty much trademark Switchers parts. I have the '32 Sedan / Phaeton Switchers kit on the shelf, just looked in it. It has the same parts tree as your blower / engine tree, but it's chromed. The large chrome tree in the kit pictured below also has 4 of the wire basket-mags you have (2 deep, 2 shallow), plus a pair of deep and a pair of shallow 5-spoke mags that match yours.

You know they're building new ones again, right? http://www.morgan3wheeler.co.uk/smallsite/smallindex5.html