Pocher 1:8 scale Porsche 917K

[Dean62]

Ok, done with one side! Wow! 12 plug wires and I still have 12 more to go! On an eight cylinder, I would have finished 4 plug wires earlier. On a normal 12 cylinder, I would be done. But this monster is only half finished!
As far as the weave goes on the wires, I coated them with clear polyurethane and then painted them to help fill in some of the weave and tone it down. I think it’s an improvement, but it will never truly be to scale…it would have to be far too fine of a thread and weave.
Here is what I have…

I always place the upper fan shroud and velocity stacks on temporarily to ensure it clears that mass of wires.

 

[Peter Voogt]

Ok, done with one side! Wow! 12 plug wires and I still have 12 more to go! On an eight cylinder, I would have finished 4 plug wires earlier. On a normal 12 cylinder, I would be done. But this monster is only half finished!
As far as the weave goes on the wires, I coated them with clear polyurethane and then painted them to help fill in some of the weave and tone it down. I think it’s an improvement, but it will never truly be to scale…it would have to be far too fine of a thread and weave.
Here is what I have…
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I always place the upper fan shroud and velocity stacks on temporarily to ensure it clears that mass of wires.

For me they look great (small), Dean. A nice solution, thanks to the Admiral.
Regards, Peter

 

[Daniel20]

That looks great Dean. Must have been a challenge to get the timing just right on that monster!

 

[Dean62]

For me they look great (small), Dean. A nice solution, thanks to the Admiral.
Regards, Peter

Thank you Peter! The provided tubing would have made it look fake, or like a toy.

That looks great Dean. Must have been a challenge to get the timing just right on that monster!

Thanks Daniel! Yes, I can imagine with two distributors and 24 plug wires it would have been a challenge!

 

[Dean62]

FYI - in the news recently...


Since mine is 1/8 scale...I will accept 1/8 of that, for a total of $3,125,000

 

[RussF]

Since mine is 1/8 scale...I will accept 1/8 of that, for a total of $3,125,000

Will you take a check?

 

[Pathfinder65]

Since mine is 1/8 scale...I will accept 1/8 of that, for a total of $3,125,000

Do you take PayPal

 

[Dean62]

I started the plug wires on the second side. There is a little more to work around, but doable. This has to fit around the injection unit, throttle linkage and still stay out of the way of the velocity stacks and fan shroud.

I have 6 wires, half done. Once completed I can do final paint and clear coat.
Also I chose to make some foam blocks to keep the motor off the headers as they were getting the paint knocked off…


Next the motor will be mounted into the tubular chassis, and the motor will no longer sit on the headers. And cross bracing will be added along with the coils. Then later the upper piece (fan shroud, velocity stacks, injectors) will go on, and that sits just above one of the cross braces. That will make routing the fuel injection tubing very difficult as I have to work inside and around the chassis and all the plug wires and other obstacles. Not looking forward to that!
I started some preliminary fitment of the chassis…I will get into that once the plugs wires are finished.
Here is a sneak preview…


Back to plug wires…

 

[Dean62]

Finally the plug wires are done!

Everything still clears the fan shroud assembly.
And the next step I decided to complete before the wires. I wanted to make sure the wires were not in the way of the throttle linkage.

So the next step is to start building the chassis…

 

[Dean62]

The rear chassis…

It starts with this step…

Next is installing the motor and transmission into this chassis…a little nervous about that.

 

[Albert Mary]

If you are a bit nervous about this, just think of the guy who welded that intricate maze in 1:1 scale starting from a blueprint...

 

[Dean62]

Assembly of the motor and transmission into the chassis!

The problem is it will not just drop straight in. And that is in big part because of step one where they had you put shifter linkage on the side of the transmission that stick out past the frame! So you have to angle it to get that in between the frame supports where it goes, which wasn’t intuitive, and then turn it another way to set the engine down on its mounts. And the piece on the front of the motor has to already be on there even though it gets sandwiched and bolted to the chassis front. It’s a juggling act!
Once in I did damage control and fixed any of the plug wires that got disconnected from their plugs…sigh. Then a little touch up paint.

Then I put the upper chassis on and cross brace.
The cross brace was a solid color…silver.

But the ends are bolted to a flange on the chassis and this the flanges should be black.
I painted those and the bolt heads…


Now for a few pics of my current progress…

Until next time…