Ace-Garageguy

Seems like we're seeing more and more of that these days...

^^^ Kewl, all of 'em. I still love the traditional stuff, but the mix of styles and technologies is fascinating.

Looks good, particularly because the flutes in real headlight lenses are on the inside, and the smooth clear over-lenses you've shown do a good job of recreating that appearance when used over the old-style chrome lenses.

I think that anyone who's honest with himself, and who is capable of seeing the forest as well as the trees, will have to consider the idea that these days, people who are both smart enough and tough enough to run things effectively are in seriously short supply...and that those who possess both characteristics are rarely universally appreciated.

Thanks for the info. Much appreciated.

What irked me today? Pretty much everything in the news. I'm really beginning to think everybody on Earth is drinking Brawndo now.

Everything will be fine. Really.

I really have to wonder what kind of echo-chamber some of these marketing wizards live in. I know there's a theory that repetition in advertising has the power to get inside your head and get you to buy stuff, but I personally don't know ANYBODY who's not put off by a product that's constantly screaming at them. There's lotsa stuff I simply will not buy because I hate their marketing "strategy" so much. EDIT: K&N now sends me several emails a week pushing crapp I have no interest in, just because I bought one semi-custom filter from them. There's a good chance that NEXT time I need a trick filter, it WON'T come from K&N.

Yes, that's an option, but I do pay attention to wasting other folk's bandwidth...little things like NOT quoting entire posts, including all 15 photos, as seems to be prevalent here. MCM has been unusual in allowing us to post pix directly on their servers, and though they seem to have plenty of storage, I don't want to abuse the privilege.

Being that huge, they're more like 1/8 or 1/10.

Yup, or some other streaming medium.

There are a few more of the historic LSR cars out there...and though they're not all in 1/25 scale, the shapes and dimensions are there for someone wanting to scale 'em up... And of course, there are the old Hawk streamliner kits that can form the basis of something else entirely... And here... https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Local-Business/LSR-Productions-Models-History-297411047264048/

Yeah, it really irks the jell out of me that you can't turn a radio or TV off.

You're correct, of course, but I wasn't clear. What I should have said is that in a random group of cylinder heads including stock and aftermarket, it would probably be possible to find a 1/2" variance in length by design...not poor casting work and sloppy tooling. Not too far back, I worked with a shop that did extensive work with these engines, and I seem to recall seeing variations in length between 21 and 24 stud heads, and particularly longer ends on some of the unusual aftermarket alloy heads we saw. I could also be wrong...but for Casey's purposes, having that 18.75" nominal length for a head should allow him to get an engine that looks close to scale-correct.

So...pretty close to the 18.88" I derived from the photo. Roughly one to two tenths difference in 1:1, or about .004"-.008" on a 1/24 scale model. I'd say that's close enough. EDIT: Casey, as Raymond says, the ends of the cylinder heads were not usually machined, on OEM or aftermarket parts, and overall you could probably expect there to be about 1/2" variance in length among a group of factory and aftermarket heads. Some aftermarket alloy heads are also sometimes a little longer to give more meat around the end studs, for more reliable gasket sealing. Another note...the gearbox behind the white engine isn't the desirable "top shift" box everybody usually wanted.

What have you got for the length of a head?

Extrapolating from a good online photo of the top of a block with a 3.1875 inch bore, a 1:1 cylinder head is about 18.88 inches long overall.

Neither engine shown really correctly represents what the top of the block actually looks like, so even if you had 1:1 dimensions, there's "interpretation" involved. And it's been my experience that engine scaling in kits is generally pretty poor across the board. For instance, the supposed 1/24 Buick nailhead in the Monogram Orange Hauler is pretty much dimensionally identical with both of Revell's 1/25 versions (old parts-pack / Ivo Showboat and the recent '29 Ford). The only Ford flathead V8 in a kit that I recall being really kinda obviously small is in the Lindberg '53 Fords. Even though I'm usually kinda anal about this stuff, in your shoes, I'd probably just use the bigger white one and call it good. I don't currently have any flatheads around, or I'd measure for you. But the width across the heads is listed as 30" on a supposedly reputable site, and 24" on another one, so there's that. And for what it's worth, all the machined surface dimensions on all the blocks are the same. EDIT: I'll do some checking and at least get you a nominal length for a head.

These are cheap gooseneck and swing-arm lamps from the thrift store, no more than $10 each, plus one magnifier I bought from the scratch-and-dent section of an office supply store for $15. I've been using this setup since 2011. Started with compact florescent 100 WATT-equivalent bulbs, now replaced with LEDs. You CAN NOT run 100 WATT tungsten (incandescent) bulbs in these lamps for long, as 1) they'll fry the little switches and 2) they make a lot of heat. You CAN run 100-watt EQUIVALENT CF or LED bulbs though, as they only take a fraction of the power to run, don't hurt the switches, and make negligible heat. Be certain to check if the bulbs you buy are "daylight" or "soft white". I personally prefer a mixture of the two...and some of the early LEDs can be a bluish light, kinda like old strip florescents, which can become tiring to work under. For more ideas, Google is your friend...

^^^ Ear candy.

Yes...those look great. Right size hole for spindle-mounts.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Halibrand-Center-Lock-Wheels-1972-Mustang-1-25-1000s-Model-Car-Parts-4-Sale/283818291603?hash=item4214e37193:g:7TEAAOSwwRpecPub Pretty close, from a Mustang funny car...

"So let's do this. Wheels up at 06:00. Lock and load." "Sir, this is a coffee shop. You sound like a movie cliche tough guy". "Well, it's as close as I'll ever get to say cool things like this in reality here in the hood". "Uh...sir...this is Beverly Hills".

Yes, that's the bottom line the situation has gifted us with.