34 Ford Ratrod

This should be my final update. I got the chasis done and engine mounted. The interior is also done. Just have to install the body and bed, and this build will be complete. Completed pics coming in the next day or two.

This looks good. Love the shifter

Coming along real good JM, love the engine!! hand-clapping-smiley-emoticon

Coming together nice John,the engine looks good with all the detail,the chassis is looking cool with the old white walls and rusty drums.
Can't wait to see it done!

NICE work John! The skull shifter is da bomb!

NICE "Ardun" Hemi too! Just need to add in one more header pipe! Matched to the plug location in the valve covers!

  Look I'm no engine expert but my "Outlaw" Big Daddy Roth Show Car build only has three exhaust on each side and the real one does too. Maybe that's the way the 1:1 car is. Some of them apparently were built that way. I would probably leave it alone. Looks good like it is.

Thanks Guys, but I looked it up on google and the engine with ardun heads do have 3 pipes. I already changed it.

John,
I had to go looking and found the following, but first, let me explain a bit. YES I know and understand this is a model and your building as the kit is, HOWEVER, the next question is, did you use the parts they supplied? IF so, those header pipes, are for the flat-head engine, NOT the Ardun details! As the flat head would have had the center pipe exhale the 2 inside combustion chambers, SO that would be right, if the engine was a flat head, WITHOUT the Ardun heads and valve covers, see:



NOW to take that SAME engine a Ford Flat Head V-8 engine, add on the Ardun heads and all they're hardware to make them work, and it look like this:







Now with these pictures, YES that only "shows" what I seen. Because I seen it, doesn't make it so....I know that too, BUT the part that does make it so is this:



Now seeing the heads with nothing on them no pipes no intake no thing, BUT the heads the ports for the intake gas and air to go in, and the exhaust to go out......This is where it gets a bit confusing (I know this as I have worked on these and built real Ford flat head V-8s into over head valve Ardun Hemi type V-8's....



The way these heads are laid out and machined out of the mold as they are cast iron, they had twisted combustion chambers, meaning the intake ports were off to one side of the Hemisphere, and the exhaust was twisted the other way to the other side of the same hemisphere.....BUT even so, all the ports whether intake or exhaust are evenly spaced within the head!

NOW a closer look, that little "pipe" that sticks up in the middle of the Ardun head in my last pic? Thats the radiator hose connection as the flat head would have had as well......

Yes, I realize its a model, BUT I thought a "model" was to reflect something in the 1:1 scale? NO they don't run, but they are to look realistic, to some extent, I'm NOT criticizing your work what you've done is AWESOME, I'm merely trying to "teach" and hopefully help you and others understand how these things work and how the details should be to be a replication of the real thing or somewhere close!

As far as the skills you have put forth here, are GREAT.........I mean I would have never "wrapped" a header in tape, but what you did looks absolutely astounding!!!!! BUT just to give some insight on what I know and how these things really do work, helps in detailing them! Knowing this is half the battle!

GRANTED, in your model, did it come stock out of the box with the Ardun heads and valve covers? AND if so, did they also add a second set of headers? They should have! OR the kit wasn't well thought out to look as the real thing would have!

I'll say here, I too have had a LOT of "Lindberg" models over the years, more specifically, and more recently, the Little Red Wagon. Thing is? That kit too isn't even close to what it should be! Sure there are a few over sized parts in the kit, the door hinges and such BUT more to the point, the motor....Granted the kit comes with 2 motors, one thats a Mopar 273 LA V-8.....Which is a good replica to that engine in real life. BUT the actual race truck as the Little Red Wagon, its to have a 426 Hemi in it with Hillborn Injectors.....SADLY the engine, more to the point the heads, are nothing shaped like a 426! The valve covers aren't even close! NOW that being said, these parts, more represent the 392 Hemi, BUT aren't exact models of that one either but they are more closely shaped to the 392 and how they looked then that of what the 426 Hemi had.....

Revell on the other hand has the Hemi valve cover right to a "replica" of the stock part! I dunno why this is with Lindberg, fast non-researched mold makers, I dunno. but, its something I caught and I had to point it out, as these companies sell these kits by the thousands and thing just because we build models we know no different....OR because they're geared more towards kids, I dunno.........

I hope you don't take this posting wrong, its not meant to be that way at all!