white metal Ferrari Sharknose and white metal Lotus 25 - Spy vs Spy ...

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Beautiful scratch building - another very detailed build.

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Gracias BK

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Some more Master Club bolts for the cam covers - these are the .020 s - the smallest ones that they made …

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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 …

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Scale compromise - these are 24th scale Webers  - 3D printed - the good stuff - but they won’t quite fit under the bonnet …

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So back they go into the stash - this is a set of 25th scale Webers - just a little smaller - these will fit …

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Whatever works. Thats always my motto. Engine is looking quite awesome. 

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just for the record

A4 leaves us all in his dust ...

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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 - - - 

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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 …

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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 ....

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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.

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Gracias MJ  -  i’ve gathered research for decades - biggest problem now is finding / keeping track of / everything …

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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 - 

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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 - 

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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 …

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Making mine by modifying a GT 40 transaxle casting that models a later ZF box - including making the side plates …

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And adding some detail to the half shaft couplings - which were rubber donuts during the 62 season …

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