Ace-Garageguy

Books may have dangerous ideas in them, like "Western Civilization is a good thing", so should be carefully vetted and censored by people too inept to drive a nail into a board.

There are fairly frequent posters on the board, including some who have been members closing on two decades, and have yet to post one single piece of work...even though they apparently have sizable collections and the demonstrated technical ability to shoot and post photos. One wonders what is the definition of "modeler" or "participation" in those minds. But ours is not to reason why. I've heard it's still s'posed to be a free country.

"Laugh at the fools who want to change everything, without knowing how anything works" is not going to be a successful long term strategy.

I got a bag of cat litter. My little furry fella has me trained well.

You're welcome.

Four-on-the-floor (or five or six...) is now a theft-protection device in these days of the increasingly mechanically challenged.

Clearly, the little light on top, in the circle shaped chamber, figures the ignition of the fuel. YES. But is that a spark plug right from it ? Or should it represent an injection, what means it is a diesel engine ? IT IS THE INJECTION NOZZLE. And what is the function of the little cam shaft right below. It's on the same axle that moves the outlet valve. THE LITTLE CAM MOVES THE FUEL INJECTION PUMP PISTON Someone who can explain the system in the T-shaped tube on the right ??? FUEL COMES IN THE LINE TO THE RIGHT. THE BOTTOM LEG OF THE T IS THE INJECTOR PISTON, ACTUATED BY THE LITTLE CAM. FUEL PUSHED UP BY THE PISTON HAS TO OVERCOME THE PRESSURE OF THE SPRING HOLDING THE CHECK-BALL CLOSED. FUEL GOES UP THE TUBE, SQUIRTS INTO THE PRE-COMBUSTION CHAMBER. Thanks anyway !

Yup, those are fuel pumps. 4 of 'em. Fuel slosh is a real problem under high-G braking, cornering, and acceleration, even with foam-filled bladders in the tanks. Multiple pickups in the tanks leading to multiple pumps is an attempt to provide constant fuel flow no matter how full the tanks are, and what attitude the car is in.

It's not mine, but the last customer build I intend to do. It started life as a real SS396, was used hard, drag-raced, rusted, wrecked, and left to rot. Nothing was retained from the original car but the main upper body shell, doors, hood, and deck...and the VIN. Nice way to leave the biz, and the client is one of the best guys I've ever had the pleasure to do business with. And on this one I'm getting the credit for what parts are mine.

If that's addressed to me, the car has a normally aspirated (FAST EFI) Smeding/Jenkins 572, dyno'd at 750HP on a single 4bbl, backed up by a built 4L80E, fabbed Strange housing and 9" out back. https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/sucp-0812-572-big-block-chevy-crate-engine/ https://www.hughesperformance.com/4l80e/

I't represents a diesel engine with a pre-combustion chamber and timed mechanical fuel injection. The cam drives the fuel injection pump so it squirts at the right time relative to piston position. The little light bulb simply represents when ignition starts in the pre-chamber, from rising compression.

House-proud isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Isn't that the truth...but wait...eat soy meatlike-substance and bugs!!!

Who'd a thunk rodders in the '90s through today would be panting after flatheads that were considered scrap metal in the '60s?

I see you're still around. My apologies for the delayed reply. Nope, I have no idea about the little blue race car. It came in with a bunch of other oddball stuff.

I remember that, have a flathead ref. book around somewhere with a deep-dive into those.

Ahh...very nice. The "hamburger" red/yellow lenses look a lot like the round Fiat lights a lot of race cars ran in the wayback too...

Nope. Still living in Ga., have a couple more months to finish up the Chevelle and DeLorean, then at least two more truckloads to take to Az., and 13 cars...but I've found a local car transporter who can haul like 9 cars at one shot and save me some money. EDIT: I've been saying "by Christmas" for at least 3 years, think I'll make it this time.

First project on the bench in the model shop in Az., adjoining the big-car shop where the real one will be built...

With the ongoing '66 Chevelle project. Happy as a clam, as usual...

Below are the parts of the Ford 8BA flathead sourced from the stock Revellogram '50 Ford pickup. Besides internal upgrades, the 8BA engine, the last iteration of Ford's flathead V8, had a separate bellhousing to facilitate adapting a wide range of gearboxes, and a conventional looking distributor that was much more accessible than earlier versions. Both of these characteristics make the 8BA the most desirable flathead for any real performance application. The black bellhousing looks, at first glance, to be very similar to the Hildebrandt (NOT Halibrand) LaSalle gearbox adapter, but after more research, I found it's not really right at all. Below is a real Hildebrandt Ford-to-LaSalle gearbox adapter. Though it looks like the black part above, it's actually very much smaller. To do a realistic looking LaSalle gearbox swap, I removed the bellhousing and gearbox from the engine assembly. Dark blue part is a LaSalle gearbox from a Challenger one kit, light blue thing on the right end is a trophy base from an AMT "Trophy Series" kit. Black part won't be used. In preparation for making a right-looking LaSalle gearbox adapter, I laid in a crankshaft centerline marker of 1/16" styrene rod to keep everything concentric. I'm saving the Ford gearbox as well, so it gets some material added to its front face to replace what was lost to the saw kerf. Just checking to see that everything looks square before proceeding...

Nothing too thrilling, as my bench time is severely limited. But I DID finally find a cast-iron Pontiac exhaust manifold with close-to-right port-spacing to match the engine I'm using, and started making flanges for custom headers.

It's been a long time, but I wanted to say a big "THANK YOU" to everyone who commented and I didn't acknowledge.

Thanks for your interest and comments, gentleman. The Allison LSR project, for anyone who's curious...

Being whiiiiiiiiiined at by emotionally incontinent neurotics.