Background diorama / Flatheads to Boxers Engine Rebuilders : new tool, new room

[landman]

Working on the boring bar towers. those are adjustable in real life but will be fixed here, I had to select the block I want to mount in there in order to be able to set the height of the towers. And since the block will be bare, I have to plug some holes. Started making cardboard patterns which will be transferred to plastic.

[landman]

This should give you an idea of where we're headed.

This will become crankcase webs

[landman]

Got the level of the bar set. It slides through both towers, the crank bearings and into the drive neatly. All the pins & needles in the foreground will be handles, knobs, etc.

[landman]

Here are a few preliminary photos of the completed line boring machine. It looks very rough in the closeups but reasonably clean in an overall photo. More to fallow later.

 

Edited November 17, 2020 by landman

[landman]

And a few more. I ended up switching it with the surface grinder as we can see the power head better.

The shop is getting busier.

[landman]

At the suggestion of Crazy Richard, I added raised buttons to my printed control panels.

Added a 51 Chevy block as well.

 

[landman]

The shop has just completed a 1937 Chevy 216. It is being readied for shipping,

The resin drill press I had purchased came with an optional bench base. I decided to start building the head for it. There is some styrene bits, part of a ball point pen barrel, a big rig hub, part of an oil pan and part of a blower scoop.

[crazyrichard]

sorry for not checking in for a while   but great progress ! the whole atmoshere now is spot on ...and those raised buttons ...yes that really brings it to life and makes it look real

 

[landman]

Thank you Richard. I want the "lived-in" look, and I want to keep changing it for interest.

[landman]

1941 Plymouth 6. this is the first of the next trio for the display stand. 

 

 

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[crazyrichard]

nice !

[Mopar - D]

Pat all I can say is WOW!! What a amazing shop. 

[landman]

The second one in this trio. The venerable Slant Six. I see I forgot the alternator adjustment bar.

 

 

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[Rider]

This is very cool Pat.

[landman]

And here are all three of them together, illustrating the development of the Mopar six. 1941 Plymouth flathead, Slant six and the 3.5 Prowler V6.

I'm not convinced the stanchions and chain are such a good idea.

 

 

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[wayne swayze]

You have a very busy shop going there Pat! Love all the scratchbuilt machinery! Keep 'er going!

[landman]

FTB has just completed a 2010 Camaro L99 engine. It is being prepped for pickup. 

 

 

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[landman]

Playing with light. Fred left his broom leaning on the Boss' toy again.

[landman]

Corvair 140.

 

 

Edited November 19, 2020 by landman

[landman]

Mostly scratchbuilt International Blue Diamond in the shop.

 

 

 

Edited November 19, 2020 by landman

[RAMBENNA]

great work, looks awesome

[landman]

Two very dusty Thunderbirds have been brought out of storage. They will be cleaned up and will join the display.

 

[Ken Gilkeson]

great diorama and scratch work, shop lookin real Landman.

[landman]

great diorama and scratch work, shop lookin real Landman.

Thanks Ken, next up is a cylinder boring machine, the type you bolt to the block.

[crazyrichard]

checked in **  nice job again love it