Pocher 1:8 scale Porsche 917K

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! ROTF
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. ;)
 
Dean62 said:
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! ROTF
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. ;)
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For me they look great (small), Dean. A nice solution, thanks to the Admiral.:)
Regards, Peter
 
Peter Voogt said:
For me they look great (small), Dean. A nice solution, thanks to the Admiral.:)
Regards, Peter
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Thank you Peter! The provided tubing would have made it look fake, or like a toy.
Daniel20 said:
That looks great Dean. Must have been a challenge to get the timing just right on that monster!
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Thanks Daniel! Yes, I can imagine with two distributors and 24 plug wires it would have been a challenge! ;)
 
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.
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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…
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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…
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Back to plug wires…
 
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Assembly of the motor and transmission into the chassis!
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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.
I also added the other pieces and the coils and coil wire. I added extra paint to the coils and made a white label for each that I saw in actual photos.
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Then I put the upper chassis on and cross brace.
The cross brace was a solid color…silver.
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But the ends are bolted to a flange on the chassis and these flanges should be black.
I painted those and the bolt heads…

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Now for a few pics of my current progress…
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Until next time… ;)
 
Dean62 said:
Assembly of the motor and transmission into the chassis!
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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.
I also added the other pieces and the coils and coil wire. I added extra paint to the coils and made a white label for each that I saw in actual photos.
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Then I put the upper chassis on and cross brace.
The cross brace was a solid color…silver.
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But the ends are bolted to a flange on the chassis and these flanges should be black.
I painted those and the bolt heads…

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Now for a few pics of my current progress…
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Until next time… ;)
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A tubular chassis is always impressive to see with all those angles. And the touch-up of some details makes it special, Dean. The spark plug wires comes out really nice.
Regards, Peter
 
Peter Voogt said:
A tubular chassis is always impressive to see with all those angles. And the touch-up of some details makes it special, Dean. The spark plug wires comes out really nice.
Regards, Peter
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Thanks Peter. the plug wires got pulled off in a few places because the clearance is very minimal. But I was able to fix them. That was my concern when I saw that step on the instructions!
Daniel20 said:
Very nice Dean, the engine looks as if you built it all while inside the frame!
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Thanks Daniel. It is very tight and barely fits! I kind of hate that it hides a lot of my work…ROTF
 
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