absmiami Posted March 2 Author Posted March 2 Some more Master Club bolts for the cam covers - these are the .020 s - the smallest ones that they made … 1
absmiami Posted March 3 Author Posted March 3 This engine was run by Lotus, Brabham and Lola in ‘62 with four Weber carbs - the survivors - restored cars - all have fuel injection - the Climax engines were coverted to fuel injection in ‘63 - so i next need to make the manifolds that will support both …
absmiami Posted March 5 Author Posted March 5 Scale compromise - these are 24th scale Webers - 3D printed - the good stuff - but they won’t quite fit under the bonnet …
absmiami Posted March 5 Author Posted March 5 So back they go into the stash - this is a set of 25th scale Webers - just a little smaller - these will fit …
MarkJ Posted March 5 Posted March 5 Whatever works. Thats always my motto. Engine is looking quite awesome.
absmiami Posted March 6 Author Posted March 6 just for the record A4 leaves us all in his dust ... .. ...
absmiami Posted April 29 Author Posted April 29 Every so often I stumble upon a cutaway that I had forgotten about - the top drawing by Bennett is less well known than the Allington cutaway below Its a depiction of the late '62 season Weber Carbed 25 - James Allington did at least two separate cutaways of the 25 - this one is the early season 25 with the full engine and trans cover - this is the car I want to make first - and the bottom drawing - done for The Motor - by Collins - is also quite good - again depicting the early '62 season 25 - thats what I want to be when I grow up - an automotive cutaway artist - - -
absmiami Posted July 15 Author Posted July 15 HOF resin caster Norman Veber has cast my monocoque - along with the instrument dash and support and the bulkheads - so now I’ll focus on the engine and transaxle and chassis mounting points - and the suspension …
absmiami Posted July 18 Author Posted July 18 This cutaway is drawn by Bellu - it shows a rear susp feature that is not well defined in the cutaways that I posted earlier this month the upper trailing arm is located mid-way down on the upright rather than sharing the top pivot point with the parallel link ..... this feature keeps the trailing arms parallel ....
MarkJ Posted July 18 Posted July 18 Andrew, you are the king of finding ref materials to build your projects. I'm so jealous that I have no knowledge of how to find what I need to build my projects. I have to rely on the kindness of others to give me the info I need and usually somebody always comes to the rescue, so I don't have to guess. But sometimes I do. Which is perfectly fine too. Model on, oh master of the metal.
absmiami Posted July 21 Author Posted July 21 Gracias MJ - i’ve gathered research for decades - biggest problem now is finding / keeping track of / everything …
absmiami Posted July 21 Author Posted July 21 Here’s a book that re-published contemporary magazine articles from the sixties - lots of great drawings and cutaways etc - if you’re building a sixties Lotus open wheeler - look for this in the usual places -
absmiami Posted July 21 Author Posted July 21 My opportunity- one and only - to photograph a 25 - at Laguna Seca - eons ago - gave me a few good pix of a restored 25 - so the trans - for example - is a Hewland and not the ZF that Team Lotus used in ‘62 -
absmiami Posted July 21 Author Posted July 21 F1 Motorsports site is a great source of on line contemporary photos of the cars taken during the racing season - and some of the photographers must have known what i needed - 60 yrs ago … as an example … this is the ZF transaxle used by Team Lotus in 62 and some of 63. it’s a ZF DS10 …
absmiami Posted July 21 Author Posted July 21 Making mine by modifying a GT 40 transaxle casting that models a later ZF box - including making the side plates …
absmiami Posted July 21 Author Posted July 21 And adding some detail to the half shaft couplings - which were rubber donuts during the 62 season …
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