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Seema wrote:Nice work. The TS set looks very good. I also have a complete set, but I don't have the confidence to start the McLaren yet. Thank you for sharing your techniques. I will include them in mine and hope to be ready to start it soon.
If you have any questions just let me know and I’ll try to help but don’t hesitate. One bit at a time. It’s suppose to be enjoyable not stressful
Ok so it’s been a while but I’ve been a bit busy and the finalizing the engine has taken a bit of time. I finished most of the wiring but the engine loom on the head covers are done. I had to wait on some parts to arrive and took a bit longer thanks to Covid. I finished the back end of the engine and scratched some linkages and out a throttle return sting in there as well and the rest was TS stuff. I will add more detail to the engine like more wiring but after I bolt the engine to the chassis and glue the gearbox to engine. I should bolt the engine in a couple of days to the chassis and see what extra details I can add. Here are some pictures. Hope you guys are enjoying the build.
fantastic result. I built this cars a few years ago and i know how exhausting it is to complete all of the details on the engine. but you are still on track
Thanks senninha. Yes it was tough with all those miniature pieces to deal with so I had to be very patient so I’m glad Im finished with that bit though I still have to add more bits like the headers and more wiring.
So I bolted the engine to the back of the tub and it was a bit more difficult than was necessary. A piece of advice to those who are building this kit. First don’t add the right side aluminum cover till after you bolt the engine and in fact you may have to modify it to make it fit. Second and most important as I mentioned this before for those who are adding the lower mount shims and valve covers from TS is that it will push the engine back and not allowing you to screw the engine to the floor. The holes will not line up by half a millimeter. Not good so you must file away the mounts which should be done before adding all the bits. I didn’t even bother with the rear bulkhead plate from TS which would make it even worse. Third it’s better to glue the water pump and oil pump assemblies after bolting the engine to the tub because it will make it easier to screw on. The screwdriver Tamiya apply unfortunately Makes you screw the screws at an angle not getting a good fit to those tiny heads of those screws. 4th and last I would enlarge a bit the mounting holes where the screws go through. I found it to be a bit tight. Other than that it should be all good. Here are some pics of the results
I come across a problem which the community here especially the ones who have build this kit before can help me out with suggestions remedies etc. So I put the airbox to the engine but as you can see it sits above the rollbar which is not suppose to. It does sit firmly on the airbox tray. Maybe this has to do with the TS tray they supply or the airbox from Tamiya is not right height. Has anyone come across this? Here is a pic of what I’m babbling about. I’m thinking about modifying the airbox by shopping the top of till I get the right height.
Is it sitting on the electronics boxes? Is there any space between them? I can't tell from the photo. Would it match up at the top without the elect boxes?
