Texas_3D_Customs

Okay I guess when I think detail I think well the details of the parts not the breakdown I will admit I don't break them down as far as other people do I do more than some less than others it really comes into space considerations. Because I don't do just one scale think about how many engines I have how many different scales I offer them in there's a reason I sold my house and move somewhere with a 50x24 shop. I am definitely out of space until I get moved over there. Even then you can only do so many parts with so many options if you want to keep things in stock and I don't really do a lot of print to order.

So that intake manifold is not inherently incorrect it is the pre-production model it was the original it is highly sought after in the actual Cobra community there aren't many of them around as far as I know I decided to go with that over the production intake manifold The rest of it was scanned from a real engine so it is correct including the T56.

There's also a more stock version with the torker II intake both are single planes but this is the Mopar single plane versus Edelbrock

Not sure how it can be any more detailed than scanning it and getting every single thing exactly where it goes. I did not dumb down the files when I reverse engineer them into CAD so I don't see how any detail can't be there. As far as the accessories I will agree they're not stock set up they were modeled after one of the aftermarket kits it's just the way I decided to go with that engine.

So I have been very quiet recently but I am moving houses, and while the house is a downgrade it does have this I am working on. I have the shell converted to a single door,all that's left is the electrical lighting and HVAC.

So the whole belt issue some people want them some people don't I get a lot of people complaining BLS doesn't have them and then I get the opposite pick one or the other but producing pulleys on their own well that's just extremely time-consuming as far as scaling I scale to real life not to kits

Okay fair enough on the flat edge on the filters AFB's are available as a separate item I have made my position on the carbs that come with my engines and it's just how I am going to do it. I am veering towards just dropping it anyway.

why is that?

The ZL1 is released on my Website

I might be joining you out there by Weatherford soon

I didn't take it as you were upset by it commenting on why it is the way it is If I could produce these in bulk quickly the price wouldn't be this high I try to keep my price is fair for the amount of time I put into it was just stating why it is the way this

You have to understand unlike a kit this is not injection molded by the thousands with little human interaction A lot of time goes into doing this and I work many many hours serve busy season but it's a whole different level of detail than you're going to get with injection molding. And like any other custom made handcrafted and I know a printer did it but there's still a lot of manual labor that goes into these It's going to be at a premium.

Well the way things are going I don't know every time I think I'm starting to catch up I have a Rush of orders and I can barely keep up so unless things change and I don't have to work 14 hours a day

I guess the heads are reminiscent of Pontiac heads that's about it

Late to the party but...

Have no idea what possessed me to do this but I kinda like it

To put it more bluntly I do not make toys in my garage I make replicas

I think you're just supporting exactly what I said though where did this engine come from What kit did it come from What aftermarket supplier That's all relevant just cuz one thing says it's 124 and another thing says it's 125 doesn't really mean much in less the person can tell you this is accurate scale and by accurate scale I mean you knew the size of the original down to the millimeter and then you scale it down appropriately to be true scale let's take the Pontiac for example obviously I scan the engine my scanner is accurate within 0.2 mm that's ridiculously accurate for what we're talking about now I scale it down to 4.17% not 4.00% but that is the difference between the two so I can say that it is true scale 124 accurate within a hundredth of a millimeter. This conversation and I'm not saying you're not on my side I fully realize you are though most people are not on my side but I can get hung up on the very fine details in fact I need to be hung up on the extreme details of exactly what I'm doing because in my opinion that's What makes something a high quality product the fact that you went to the extremes of making sure you're accurate down to the order of less than 1 mm at full size

That may be the case but that is why I went with 124 over 125 cuz just a little bit bigger and I mean it is such a small amount is always going to look a little bit better than just a little bit smaller there are two different ways to look at the difference in sizes you could say it's 4% bigger and this is true but it's only 0.17% different from real scale. I don't know why this is such a big deal if you do the actual math on the difference it is very minute a lot less than 10%

All versions of the Pontiac V8 that I will do for them foreseeable future are all on my website now The only thing I may add is a different hat for the blower other than that I think I have plenty of selection at this point

I am almost done with this platform but not yet

Not really my style

What engine is that?

But I will do this

Maybe