3rd gen Camaro

[MarkJ]

Turns out, I will have to make the intake manifold and the carb.

[MarkJ]

Found some pretty good ref pics of the manifold and trying to use them to make the engine look okay.

[MarkJ]

Hurricane Beryl as a category 1 hurricane caused more damage than a lot of category 3 hurricanes we have had in the past. Finally got back to the build after 6 days without power. It's just too hard to do something fun in a hot house with battery powered lantern. I got more done on the manifold and found an image of a carb I will try to duplicate as best I can at 1/25 scale.

[MarkJ]

Here is the manifold that looks fairly close to the ref pictures I have of the real manifold hidden by an air cleaner. I know that it is a single plane manifold.

[MarkJ]

Started on the valve covers which I have to finish before I can close off the top of the manifold chambers. Then on to the carb.

[MarkJ]

added some more to the valve covers to try to get them shaped right. Added some close out panels to finish up the manifold.

[MarkJ]

Finally got most of the manifold done except for cutting a line between chambers going to the heads and adding a little putty here and there where voids showed up in the manifold and valve covers.

[bytownshaker]

Your engine is coming along nicely Mark. Your fabricating the intake manifold is awesome, I'll have to try doing one.

[MarkJ]

Thanks for stopping by Edgar. I appreciate your input. Got the demarcation lines cut in the manifold. I still need to do some work on the valve covers to get them more alike and remove the voids.

[MarkJ]

Almost finished with the valve covers and starting on the Holley carb.

[MarkJ]

Some more work on the carb. Scale wise it's going to be a little too big because I apparently made the manifold too big. But I won't tell anybody if you don't. It will be our little secret. I don't think anybody's following the wip anymore, so nobody knows anyway. Got lots of cutting and detail sanding on this which invariably leads to mistakes and redo's here and there. Somehow, I took a notch out of the top of the carb where it meets the air cleaner. the venturis have little tiny ports at the top of them, but I don't think there is any way I can model that. Most kit Holley's aren't that detailed either. Just want it to kind of look like a Holley.

[Volzfan59]

I'm still here Mark! Looking at your WIP updates on Short Track Forum too. I won't tell a soul about the scale thing.

Edited July 24 by Volzfan59

[bbowser]

I'm watching.  Never seen an attempt at scratching a carb, amazing work!

[MarkJ]

Thanks Steve and Bruce. I appreciate you stopping by and making a comment. No pictures today because I did more damage than good and did not want to post pictures that make the carb look worse than it had looked. Eventually it will be done, and I can move on to finishing the chassis and get this baby assembled. September will be the one-year anniversary of me starting this journey and I hope to never spend that much time again on one project. My next build should definitely be oob and oob only except for maybe more accurate wheels and tires. I might actually use my new air brush to paint the body if I get a low enough humidity day outside. I bought it to paint the wheels with AlcladII chrome because thats the only way you can apply AlcladII. With an airbrush. My old airbrush had bit the big one and just spit when I used it instead of giving a nice spray out of the tip.

[MarkJ]

Almost finished with the carb. I hope I can squeeze the distributor in at the back of the engine. Might have to do some more sanding here and there. I've gotten about as detailed as I can get with it except, I would like to come up with a simple linkage for the sides of the carb. I don't think I will be hooking up the linkage. And making the double pumpers is out of the question too. Just too tiny to deal with.

[bytownshaker]

Looking good Marc.

[MarkJ]

Thanks for stopping by Edgar. Started on the carb linkage and did some more work to the valve covers that weren't getting done using putty. Forgot to take pictures.

[MarkJ]

Carb is just about done. Will need to install carb with a little Elmers glue so it will be easy to take back off to see if I can get the hood to shut with it installed, also the air cleaner. I shall see.

[absmiami]

Yup

[MarkJ]

10 hours ago, absmiami said:

Yup

Thanks for dropping by Andrew. A Yup from you is high praise and I really appreciate it. 

[MarkJ]

Success. The hood shuts with carb installed. However, the air cleaner is another story. There might be some more room I can get to make the engine sit lower in the frame. First, I want to finish the air cleaner to know exactly what I'm working with.

[MarkJ]

Have to make an air cleaner. Found one in my stash I can modify to look somewhat like the real car had. Pretty sure it will have to be removable for when the hood is shut. It can ride in the right front floorboard when the hood is not open. 

[rv1963]

Great work on that carb and intake, that's some real scratch building.

[MarkJ]

3 hours ago, rv1963 said:

Great work on that carb and intake, that's some real scratch building.

Thanks for stopping by Robert. I really appreciate your positive report on the build.

[MarkJ]

Finished the little, tiny rods that depict the element, but will need to do some sanding because some ended up sticking out at the top. I made a bottom for the air cleaner that I will add when I get it the right size. Of course, they are not perfectly circular but will do the best I can to true them up a bit.