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January 2012
1/8 '32 Ford "Big Deuce"

Building a '57 chevy 'Strip version'

Part 2 :- Pulley, fuel line & throttle assembly details

 SECTION 3 :- pulley detail

Quick one this. To match up the colours for the engine pulleys I first sprayed the bottom two (crankshaft & water pump) pulleys in the "Canyon Red". I allowed it to dry fully then masked over them & sprayed the top one in "Stone Grey". The belt was then hand painted in satin black.

The supercharger unit was glued onto the manifold cover, then this & the altered rocker covers were sprayed in "Stone Grey". These were glued onto the engine block & the pulley assembly glued to it.

 SECTION 4 :- Fuel line detail

For some reason they have put the connecting pipe for the fuel feed between the 2 carburettors, but that is it. How does it get there? Well let's put this in.
The first job is to drill holes in both the fuel filter & the carburettor pipe. I used a 1.3mm drill bit to drill right through the fuel filter & with a 0.7mm drill about 1mm into the carburettor

I then fed a 30mm piece of 12mm Outside Diameter (O/D) wire through the fuel filter. This wire is standard 7/ 0.2 equipment wire you can get from any electronics store or internet. A 4mm piece of the wire that came with the kit (0.65mm O/D) was put into the carburettor held it in place with a small drop of superglue.
In my spares box I had a length of braided cable so I cut a 90mm length off, but you could just use a piece of tubing, & then glued one end to the fuel filter. To finish it off I also had a couple of scale hose connections so these were fed onto the braid & then the other end of the braid glued to the carburettor & the hose connections held in place with a small bit of superglue at each end. The rest of the wire coming out of the fuel filter will have the fuel feed pipe coming out of the bulkhead connected to it later.

 SECTION 4 :- Throttle cable detail

Now there is fuel to the carbs how will they open/close? Time to put some cable & levers in. Sitting in my spares area were some photo etched brackets with two 1mm holes in. You could make either a metal or plastic lever, but this saved a lot of time. Each carburettor housing had a lever glued in place with superglue & allowed to dry. Using 1mm diameter plastic rod, I cut a 21mm piece & then bent the ends at 90 degrees to fit into the holes in the lever.

A throttle return spring & cable are now needed to finish the controls. To make a spring I had some thin 0.25mm fixing wire that I wound round an old nozzle off a glue dispenser for about 20 turns. 2mm at each end was left unwound to give a fixing point. In the front carb I drilled about 1-2mm in with a 0.3mm drill bit to give a fixing point for one end of the spring & the other end rested on the earlier throttle link bar. A small amount of superglue was used to hold it in place.

A 60mm piece of 7/0.2 guage wire had about 5mm stripped off the coating & wound to represent the throttle cable & a photo etched bracket was found to hold it in place. Now this is as far as I have gone using none aftermarket parts, but I am sure that somewhere you can get hold of 1/12 scale engine fixings or linkages, but as a first attempt at scratch building I am quite pleased with the results.

COMING NEXT:-

Part 3 will be the ignition wiring, final engine assembly & first stage of chassis build:_ NOW ONLINE