Heller Ligier JS11 1/12 - update 01 May

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Chinamalc wrote:Yes I know - You need to wait for the next update!!

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Hello Malc. Thanks for you response and interest. Firstly, apologies for making you panic, it was not my intention. Nor was it to make you go perform a whole lot more work - checking the exhaust - at a stage that you were probably not at yet. My mistake is very much self inflicted - but it has taken this communication for it to dawn on me. The research photos I have for the JS11 are far from comprehensive and not one of them showed the engine bay clearly. I had therefore resorted to a variety of references of Cosworth DFV engines in a variety of other team cars. I attach one from a McLaren M23 from the same era which clearly shows a cooling pipe running from up near the edge of the cam cover.
McLaren M23 with cooling pipe running along the edge of the Cam cover
McLaren M23 with cooling pipe running along the edge of the Cam cover
This is backed up by the Williams FW07. Consequently I faithfully knocked something up. However, and as I say this has only just dawned on me, this now prevents the exhaust cluster coming far enough up to connect with the exit pipe.
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the added cooling pipe coloured red
the added cooling pipe coloured red
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Now I look closer at my JS11 research I can see that the cooling pipe runs underneath the exhaust cluster!

I am still sure though that the fit and shape of the pipes is inherently incorrect. I've buggered about so much with sanding and shaping at various points, but especially the 'port' ends, that I've probably made it impossible to fit correctly now.

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Re: Heller Ligier JS11 1/12

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Thanks for posting up the pics, I can see you have put a lot of effort in to that, glad my explanation helped.
You are right, 1979 was the dawn of ground effects and exhausts were moved up out of the venturi airflow, so everything else moved to suit, inc the cooling pipes. FW07 and M23 are prior to the full length venturis as you have discovered.
I wonder if we can persuade indygp2001 to give up his exhausts to you!!
Failing that, I suggest you split them apart at the original joints, reinstate the spigot pins in the collector ends, drill matching holes and have another go?
An alternative is to roll new headers in milliput between two strips of wood (to get a constant diameter) and then while it is soft drape the milliput to the correct shape, it is slow as you have to do one, let it set then do the next, so probably only one per day.
Or you could use solder of the correct diameter and superglue to join at the collector.

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Oh Malc. I must have ordered and tried innumerable 'wires' to re-work those pipes - why do wire manufacturers describe their products as soft when in reality they are harder to bend than bridge girders? I can't find here in the UK solder that is thick enough - 4mm. I like your suggestion of the milliput though. Thank you. Would you like copies of my research photos, although it sounds very much like you'll have them already?

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Modelbautony wrote: Would you like copies of my research photos, although it sounds very much like you'll have them already?
Yes please! Can't ever have enough research material! I will PM you.
Never thought you could not get 4mm solder here in the UK, when I was living in China you could get every size up to 20mm x 35mm x 500mm bars!
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Re: Heller Ligier JS11 1/12

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So while that was going on I had ordered these and some aluminium rod.
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The C shape is an adaptor I had to make for my die holder
To make these
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Which go here, the small diameter is a press fit in to the front upright
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And assembled
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Proper working wheel nuts! The hole in wheel rim and brake disc was opened out to 4mm diameter on the lathe
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The backside of the wheel hub was increased in diameter with two diameters of plastic tube to strengthen the remaining wheel hub and provide a bigger mating surface to the bigger bell on brake disc, (still to be made)
The lathe was slowed to its slowest setting and I still melted the front wheel hub on the second wheel! (its that second time curse again….)
While I had the lathe out, I decided to make the inner half of the rear rim fit JamesB’s resin wheels
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Rim parted off and turned round to fine tune the diameter, the fit was checked with the wheel before removing what remaind of the wheel rim from the chuck.
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Having done that I made the stub axles for the rear wheels, the shoulder on the stub buts up against the inside of the rear upright flange, the inside end of the stub is drilled to take the driveshaft. The outboard end drive shafts still need to be shortened slightly.
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So following this success I looked again at the front brake discs, the mating surface between the wheel and disc should be bigger to allow for the peg drive, I thought of adding plastic and filler to the existing disc but none of the schemes I came up with were very good, so I bit the bullet and made some new discs to include the disc bell, the downside was having to drill 20 more holes in the edge of each disc……….
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New discs made from SikaBlock PUR
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Glad I kept the drawing for marking out the holes I made earlier
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New Vs kit part. I mistakenly cut off the inboard ‘ears’ of the left calliper, so remade them in plastic card, if you look at one of the earlier posts you can see these ears were moulded as sharp pointed triangles, in reality they are radiused as shown, they should have a small fixing bolt in the centre of each ear which bolts the outer part of the calliper to the centre piece.
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Meanwhile what I had forgotten is that the smaller 13inch wheels mean that the kit rear uprights will not fit inside the wheel rims, thoughtfully JamesB had provided new resin uprights with his wheels, but I forgot that …….. Until after I had modified the kit parts. To boost motivation I got a bit ahead of myself and painted the rear uprights on a rare sunny day a couple of weeks ago…..
Cut line marked
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Somehow I sanded too much away from the horizontal outer edge, so the angle of the small piece is wrong, luckily I could compare it to the unmodified part and correct this!
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Clearance inside wheel, oddly only the top needs reducing, the bottom arm has plenty of clearance in the smaller wheel
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First one glued together again, about 2mm has been removed compared to the unmodified part
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Both done, with a smear of filler to hide the joint and paint cleaned off in 99% isopropyl alcohol
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The front inner wheel rims were parted off in the lathe like the rears and matched to the resin wheel which was bored out to suit, on the left showing the parted off rim, on the right the assembled parts
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Thats all for now.
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Re: Heller Ligier JS11 1/12

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Chinamalc wrote: While I had the lathe out, I decided to make the inner half of the rear rim fit JamesB’s resin wheels
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Ah, wait, I get it! :lol: :lol:

Oh yes, when I corrected the rear upright, I did what you point: lowering the upper rocker/link attachments, there was room enough inside the 13" rim for the lower part, yes.
The lower end also needs some rework, Heller's shape is no good, Tamiya is.
I filled the Heller part with resin so I could sand it to the proper shape without hitting void :wink:
Great job as ever :D

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Re: Heller Ligier JS11 1/12

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Modelbautony wrote:Oh Malc. I must have ordered and tried innumerable 'wires' to re-work those pipes - why do wire manufacturers describe their products as soft when in reality they are harder to bend than bridge girders? I can't find here in the UK solder that is thick enough - 4mm. I like your suggestion of the milliput though. Thank you. Would you like copies of my research photos, although it sounds very much like you'll have them already?

This is how the exhausts on his tyrrell 006 1/12 Mark Oakley resolved. You can find other pictures on
https://twitter.com/mrof1models
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