Pocher used something like old car tires to mould the chassis and sub assemblies. On second thought you better can manufacture one yourself from brassf40 wrote:Tony yes you do. What a P I A that sub assembly is to cut and sand.
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¡MASTERWORK!
About engine in/out dilemma, make removable panels and then only loose a couple of nuts to remove the power unit
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Took 16 hours just to allign the wheels and get the proper ride height correct~Here are some photos of my mini progress~Thanks for looking
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Just a small update~making progress on the rear frame assembly...
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The rear frame sub assembly is finished and ready to be painted...
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It's pretty stunning to see this come together, thanks for sharing!
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Great work F40...I love to see this (again )
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Thanks for looking and posting your replies
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Well, seeing as how it's a clear rear bonnet, and you can lift it up, you'll show most of it anyway. Stick a mirror under it, and you can probably see 90% of this masterpiece.f40 wrote:I am having mixed feelings about using this motor in the car . I have replicated almost every detail. I might just display this motor outside the car and then just do a mock up motor for inside the car without alot of the front motor detail. But as you can see I work very slowly and it would probably take forever to do another, even with less detail . The details that get coverd up I will leave out , like the exhausts that were made from steel they get coverd up in the car with Heat Shields. I would probably just use the Pocher kit Exhauts . Thanks for your compliments.
Mark Jones does the same thing for his Lotus 7s, and it works a charm!
Just throwing that out there.
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I grinded off all the metal that was molded in around the air ducts. I reshaped the left airduct with plastistrut, notice the difference from the left air duct to the right (uncompleted) airduct. This makes it look more accurate than the molded in rollbar and airduct.