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 Friday at 08:19 PM Author Posted Friday at 08:19 PM 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 Friday at 08:46 PM Posted Friday at 08:46 PM 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 Monday at 05:46 PM Author Posted Monday at 05:46 PM Gracias MJ - i’ve gathered research for decades - biggest problem now is finding / keeping track of / everything …
absmiami Posted Monday at 05:49 PM Author Posted Monday at 05:49 PM 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 Monday at 05:53 PM Author Posted Monday at 05:53 PM 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 Monday at 05:59 PM Author Posted Monday at 05:59 PM 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 Monday at 06:03 PM Author Posted Monday at 06:03 PM Making mine by modifying a GT 40 transaxle casting that models a later ZF box - including making the side plates …
absmiami Posted Monday at 06:06 PM Author Posted Monday at 06:06 PM And adding some detail to the half shaft couplings - which were rubber donuts during the 62 season …
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