Pocher 1:8 scale Porsche 917K

Daniel20 said:
Painting those parts brings that engine to life. Really well-done Dean.
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Thank you Daniel!
Like I said before, if you just left the parts all black or the colors they are molded in, it would look more like a toy than a model. So it’s important to make sure every part is fully detailed like you would any other model. Even the painted metal parts need extra details. ;)
 
The broken belt…the provided rubber belt for the fuel injection unit was broken when I tried to assemble it. The rubber they molded it with doesn’t stretch well. :(
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So there was no belt…until I searched the entire house looking for a small rubber band that would be right length and width. Lucky for me my granddaughter had a bag of small rubber bands in different colors…bingo!
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Here is the one I found that worked, of course I had to paint it because it was green! ROTF

That done I looked ahead at the instructions…always a good idea…
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After the plug wires you add the exhaust pipes and bracket, and the throttle linkage and springs. The problem when adding the exhaust pipes is you have to have a firm grip on the motor and the more tiny parts I keep adding the harder it gets to find a place to hold it. At the moment that is down to the cylinder heads where all the plug wires will be! So…I decided to add the exhaust first for that reason.
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I did some dry brushing to represent heat cycling of the exhaust. I didn’t like that they cast some numbers to help with assy on top of the exhaust and one shows up by the collector. In hind sight, I wish I would have filed that off. Oh well…you may or may not see that once the car is finished.
In addition I am going to add the throttle linkage before the plug wires too to ensure the wires are routed out of the way of the linkage and springs. Seems like the better approach to me.

As she sits now…IMG_7203.jpeg
Oh and I measured it from the exhaust to the front of the motor…we are at a little over 8”…
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Dean62 said:
The broken belt…the provided rubber belt for the fuel injection unit was broken when I tried to assemble it. The rubber they molded it with doesn’t stretch well. :(
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So there was no belt…until I searched the entire house looking for a small rubber band that would be right length and width. Lucky for me my granddaughter had a bag of small rubber bands in different colors…bingo!
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Here is the one I found that worked, of course I had to paint it because it was green! ROTF

That done I looked ahead at the instructions…always a good idea…
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After the plug wires you add the exhaust pipes and bracket, and the throttle linkage and springs. The problem when adding the exhaust pipes is you have to have a firm grip on the motor and the more tiny parts I keep adding the harder it gets to find a place to hold it. At the moment that is down to the cylinder heads where all the plug wires will be! So…I decided to add the exhaust first for that reason.
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I did some dry brushing to represent heat cycling of the exhaust. I didn’t like that they cast some numbers to help with assy on top of the exhaust and one shows up by the collector. In hind see got I wish I would have filed that off. Oh well…you may or may not see that once the car is finished.
In addition I am going to add the throttle linkage before the plug wires too to ensure the wires are routed out of the way of the linkage and springs. Seems like the better approach to me.

As she sits now…View attachment 505585
Oh and I measured it from the exhaust to the front of the motor…we are at a little over 8”…
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A impressive engine, Dean. Liked the spaghetti exhausts pipes at most.
Regards, Peter
 
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Peter Voogt said:
A impressive engine, Dean. Liked the spaghetti exhausts at most.
Regards, Peter
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The most impressive thing, to me, is an high performance flat-twelve exclusively air cooled. The Fiberglass manifolds for the gearbox and differential air cooling are amazing as well. Great achivement with the paint job simulating the side effects of prevopiously red hotted exhausts. Respect!
 
albertmary said:
The most impressive thing, to me, is an high performance flat-twelve exclusively air cooled. The Fiberglass manifolds for the gearbox and differential air cooling are amazing as well. Great achivement with the paint job simulating the side effects of prevopiously red hotted exhausts. Respect!
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Thank you!
 
It is now time for the spark plug wires. The dilemma is they are too large for the scale. :(
Here is an actual photo to show the size of the plug wires …
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Note how 3 plug wires are grouped together with wire looms and pass through and over notches in the valve cover.
I am using this as a guide to how large the wires should be.
The provided tubing…
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As you can see this is clearly too large for the scale of the motor and the notches in the valve cover.
Not sure what to do yet, I am looking into options… :(
 
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Dean62 said:
Not sure what to do yet, I am looking into options…
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Way back when I did model cars, I used to use the insulation from solid core hook-up wire I got from Radio Shack in 22,24,26 gauge. I would pull the wire out of the insulation (the solid core rather than stranded made that easier) because the insulation took on more natural curves than I could ever get by leaving the wire in. Of course, yours is 3 times the size of the 1:24 models I built, and Radio Shack is ancient history, but you can still buy hook-up wire at auto parts stores or home centers.
 
Building a model is always a learning experience. Just like the flanges on the headers needed to be painted to match, luckily for me I realized the flanges for the velocity stacks needed to be painted to match…sigh! This would have been so much easier prior to assembly…grrrr!
I test fit the velocity stack and fan shroud on the engine to look at how the plug wires are best run…that’s when I realized!
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Oops…we have a problem! And you can see how if you don’t do any painting on these parts that it will not look as good!
So those were painted…and the bolt heads redone…
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And to verify how it will look later when the upper piece is added…
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Also there is detail painting to do on that piece for the injectors (silver), inside of the velocity stacks, rubber boots, bolt heads, etc. But that is for later when it’s time for that part to go on.
Here is a pic of the real deal…
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Ok back to making plug wires… ;)
 
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For the plug wires I had an idea. Why not simulate color braided plug wires? Everybody always does a plain rubber coated wire.
My wife does a lot of sewing and has every kind of thread you can imagine. While looking I found some that was not for sewing, but for bracelets and necklaces. It is .030” dia (roughly 1/8 scale) and it was finely braided so it looks to scale! I then decided to attach the ends with a boot I made from some black tubing.
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Sounds easy? Nope!
First, I had to run the thread through some bees wax to get rid of any fuzz, then I had to put superglue on the end so once dry it would be hard enough to put inside the tubing. Then put the tubing on the end and glue that. Then place in the distributor cap and run down to the plug to determine the proper length. Then once that end was cut, I had to add super glue, add the boot and put some glue at that joint.
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I did that for the first set of three wires. Then I made some wire ties for those. I think it looks rather convincing.
A pic with the upper piece on…
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I think once I do the next set of three it will start to look even better.
Any thoughts?
 
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