cobraman Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 I Love to watch you fellows that can machine such great looking parts. Then I go back to my workbench and think to myself " why bother " ! ?
Mooneyzs Posted January 1, 2021 Posted January 1, 2021 Tim.... this is outstanding and mind blowing my friend. Just so impressive, I love it. I am hoping to start getting back to the bench and make some good progress in some builds this year. Happy New Year! Cheers!
Claude Thibodeau Posted January 1, 2021 Posted January 1, 2021 Hi Sir! Very impressive. I am found of the stiffening beads on the flange. Oh well. Museum quality, without a doubt. Keep on! CT
Ian McLaren Posted January 1, 2021 Posted January 1, 2021 Commenting on your skills and what you have built so far is redundant, but I do want to say that you are an inspirational and motivating force in the hobby. While I will never come even close to your level you have pushed me to improve as a modeler and I find myself going back two or sometimes three times to tweek a part for a better result. Thank you.
streetmachine11 Posted January 19, 2021 Posted January 19, 2021 this is one killer build. your machining skills are incredible
charlie libby Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 WOW! that rear cover is a picture from the summit catalog and you put it on your forum. you are an incredible artist. your engine and stand are the best.i am enjoying your fotki account.
GoatGuy Posted February 15, 2021 Posted February 15, 2021 Tim, as usual, your work is instructional and amazing. Love it. Dave
Belugawrx Posted February 19, 2021 Posted February 19, 2021 I haven't checked in for a while...really nice progress Tim !!
Codi Posted February 26, 2021 Author Posted February 26, 2021 Well, now that winter break is over, I've got a single pic of the drawings I've worked on to do the rest of the Dana 60 rear end. I bought an actual rear cover gasket to base my original numbers upon and did TONS of research on-line. Came up with reasonable numbers & drawings to work from to mimic the "Henry's Axle" company casting. Reminder, they were the firm that did the Ramcharger's rear ends back in the day and was used by many racers. Cast in magnesium was one of the claims to fame. 7 renderings (not counting those thrown away) and materials prepped. Today I'll get started and see where it ends up now. In the pic you can see the gasket and the drawings themselves. Thanks to each of you that continue to follow and post words of encouragement. cheers, tim
Chris Smith Posted February 26, 2021 Posted February 26, 2021 Tim I think we as a group need to find new adjectives to express how much we feel about your process and ability to recreate parts in such a small scale. I for one admire it and will appreciate it from afar. Keep up the great work my friend! Chris
comp1839 Posted February 26, 2021 Posted February 26, 2021 i can seriously appreciate the amount of labor you poured into that board!!!!! can't wait to see the end product, Tim...time to let the chips fly!!!!!
AmericanMuscleFan Posted February 26, 2021 Posted February 26, 2021 I'm glad to see that the Dana rear end is now in the process of being made and I expect nothing less than another little gem! In any case, you seem well prepared!!! ?
Ian McLaren Posted February 27, 2021 Posted February 27, 2021 With this much planning I can only suspect this will be another stunning model all on it's own. Really looking forward to the process.
Tortuga Kustomz Posted February 28, 2021 Posted February 28, 2021 On 2/26/2021 at 9:48 AM, Codi said: Well, now that winter break is over, I've got a single pic of the drawings I've worked on to do the rest of the Dana 60 rear end. I bought an actual rear cover gasket to base my original numbers upon and did TONS of research on-line. Came up with reasonable numbers & drawings to work from to mimic the "Henry's Axle" company casting. Reminder, they were the firm that did the Ramcharger's rear ends back in the day and was used by many racers. Cast in magnesium was one of the claims to fame. 7 renderings (not counting those thrown away) and materials prepped. Today I'll get started and see where it ends up now. In the pic you can see the gasket and the drawings themselves. Thanks to each of you that continue to follow and post words of encouragement. cheers, tim i like how you plan your project man, good example...
Impalow Posted March 2, 2021 Posted March 2, 2021 Wow... I haven't checked the thread in awhile... and this is amazing! That engine looks like pure jewelry! I can only image it in person... Fantastic work as usual Tim! ?
Codi Posted March 29, 2021 Author Posted March 29, 2021 THANK YOU GUYS!! Seriously this was a slog, not enough bench time and tedious stuff to machine. Hopefully you'll like what you see even though it's not quite completely finished. Sooooo, many days/weeks later and I finally have something to post pics of. I just have to assemble it and "finesse" things like the ribs etc. to final fitment. After getting all of this machined I had to see a mock-up so these pics represent where I'm at. Give me this week and I should have pics of it completely assembled / completed. Not sure yet if I'm going to paint the pumpkin' portion or antique black it with Caswell's aluminum "Blacken-It"........It will be media blasted regardless before doing so. The back cover / plate will polished however! The axle itself is titanium. I'll share some comments with the pics below for info/clarification. Cheers to ALL! tim These 1:1 reference pics show the rear in the Mopar Missile "Wire" Car. They had titanium axles and driveshaft components along with their magnesium rear end. Pretty much what I'm trying to replicate. This is a pic of a "Henry's Axle Company rear end, they made the famous Ramcharger rear ends.....a lot of ribbing throughout. I was VERY fortunate to find a dozen great reference pics of it on an ebay sale and I printed them out.........now if you search for them, ebay says they can't find them.......I guess they delete their files after a given period of time. these pics show it mock-ed up. Again, ribs and some other details during final assembly have to be finessed but it should be pretty close to the real deal. If its as cool as I hope, I'm going to open up the trunk and possibly the doors on the body to show it off along with more of the chassis. you'll note the little "wings/ribs" with a hole drilled in the center standing on end, you can see 2 of them in place in some of the pics even though they're not glued in permanently yet. The bolts are for the 4 carrier bolts internally as an fyi. cheers
Straightliner59 Posted March 29, 2021 Posted March 29, 2021 Words seem so inadequate! Fantastic work, Tim!
Straightliner59 Posted March 29, 2021 Posted March 29, 2021 Words seem so inadequate! Fantastic work, Tim!
Chris Smith Posted March 29, 2021 Posted March 29, 2021 Great update Tim, it’s a pleasure to watch your work
comp1839 Posted March 29, 2021 Posted March 29, 2021 looks FANTASTIC Tim!!!!! the Ramchargers would be jealous!!!
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