ShakyCraftsman Posted June 4 Posted June 4 (edited) Hey all Like the title says. This is not a build thread. Since it's already built.😁 It's a KFS Cat 1693TA engine in resin & white metal. I thought you guys would be interested in this for use in any of your build projects. So here are some pictures for yous to perose over. This is a left side view of the engine. It comes as one big peice, block, bell housing, head and rear gear case. This is a right side view of the engine. This is a top view of the engine. Bottom view of the engine. These are the exhaust turbo with manifold and intake turbo with pipe. This view shows the parts that go on the left side of the engine. Two top fuel filters, aftercooler (I added the grey bolt heads 20 of em!😱) two lower oil filters, air compressor and starter. this view shows the fan belts, front motor mount and front cross member. This view shows the left hand side parts. Oil cooler, oil manifold, fuel pump and thermostat housing. These are the white metal parts. It's not to bad to put together. You just need to take your time and follow the instructions (yeah you get a two sided set of instructions in color!) Next post I'll show more of my mods and how I plumbed it. Ron G Edited June 17 by ShakyCraftsman 2
ShakyCraftsman Posted June 4 Author Posted June 4 (edited) Hey all Okay, here we go on what I did to improve this engine and assemble it. I hope you guys enjoy this. First page of the instructions. Second page of the instructions. This view shows the Aftercooler. I added some 0.8mm (TINY!) Meng bolt heads to it. Side view of the aftercooler. Back side of the aftercooler. Front view of the engine with white plastic pin for the lower fan pully to attach to. (You get a peice of plastic rod in the kit) This view shows the 18spd transmission that I'm using for this. I sanded off the mounting flange on the trans because it was to small (3/4" dia.) I then replaced it with one made from 0.03" plastic (7/8" dia.). Then I added some 1.4mm Meng bolt heads to the new flange. This view shows the start of my plumbing for the fuel pump. You can just barely see the Albion aluminum tubes I used for the fittings in the head. I tried to drill out the cast on fittings, but they were to small and broke, so I replaced them with the Albion aluminum tubes. And here it is completed. The fittings on the pump the (white ones) are made from slicing off small lengths of Plastruct hexagonal plastic rods 0.06" to the correct length. I tried to drill out the cast on fittings, but they were to brittle and broke, so I replaced them with the Plastruct peices. 😢 This view shows the intake turbo and pipe. I added some Meng bolt heads (4) 1.0mm to the flange & (12) to the intake compressor.(This picture got out of sequence). Top view of the Cat 1693TA and a Revell NTC-475 compound turbo Cummins for comparison. Right side view of the engine Right side view of the engine completed. Note the two brownish fittings on the oil cooler, these go to the oil filters on the other side. This view shows the left side of the engine. You can see the fittings on the air compressor the one with nothing attached to it is the feed to the air tank. The other two I did from a photo that I have. Top view of the engine. Front view of the engine Rear view of the engine. These next three pictures show the this engine compared to the Revell NTC-475 Cummins. It is a big motor! It's old, it came out in 1964 and was in production up till 1974 maybe a touch later. Well that's it for now be back soon with more. I plan on putting this in a AMT " Cross Country Hauler" Peterbilt for power. Ron G Edited June 17 by ShakyCraftsman 4
ShakyCraftsman Posted June 4 Author Posted June 4 On 6/4/2025 at 11:09 PM, Jim B said: Great looking engine. Expand Yeah Jim, it's really very well made. Every thing fits good. The instructions are photos, not much advice, but I made it through. 1
ShakyCraftsman Posted June 6 Author Posted June 6 (edited) Hey all A few more pictures for you to look at. I added some lines from the fuel filters to the fuel pump. I also added the two oil lines for the turbos and some more oil lines on the oil cooler. This is the truck it will be going in. AMT's new Peterbilt kit. Ron G Edited June 6 by ShakyCraftsman 2
meechum68 Posted June 7 Posted June 7 On 6/6/2025 at 1:39 PM, ShakyCraftsman said: Hey all A few more pictures for you to look at. I added some lines from the fuel filters to the fuel pump. I also added the two oil lines for the turbos and some more oil lines on the oil cooler. This is the truck it will be going in. AMT's new Peterbilt kit. Ron G Expand Amazing! 1
ShakyCraftsman Posted June 26 Author Posted June 26 (edited) Hey all Not an update just a few paint schemes that I might use. Metallic Red and Black. Metallic Turquoise and Black. Edited June 26 by ShakyCraftsman 2
Jürgen M. Posted June 26 Posted June 26 On 6/6/2025 at 1:39 PM, ShakyCraftsman said: Hey all A few more pictures for you to look at. I added some lines from the fuel filters to the fuel pump. I also added the two oil lines for the turbos and some more oil lines on the oil cooler. This is the truck it will be going in. AMT's new Peterbilt kit. Ron G Expand Nice! I like that kit. I used to have the old version. Wasn't called "Cross Country Hauler" back then. I had built it like shown on the cover but unfortunately it didn't survive a move! It got crushed as a heavy chair fell on the moving box. Glad to see it's back on the market. Have fun. I'm sure this will be an awesome build! 1 1
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