Zenrat's Flying Circus

[PR19_Kit]

My first LRW came with a slant six and a Hemi, did they re-pop it with the small block instead?

[Wardukw]

Thanks Kit.  Thought i'd photo it before it gets hidden inside the model.
The engine is left over from the Lindberg Little Red Wagon wheelstander kit.  High 200's to low 300's cubic inches.  You don't always have to have a big block or massive horsepower (Phill will disagree with that).  In this case I just wanted something better than a flathead ford V8.

Hahaha 😀 😆
Big horsepower is very nice and huge cubes is never a bad thing but.   Yep a but   
What id call a small block V8..like 400 cubes is fun ..hell you can get stupid power from a small block LS1 easily today ...so for shock and awe nothing beats a monster blown huge block V8...but ..yep..another one..reliable everyday use..so to speak...an LS1 will do very nicely indeed ..shock is fine too..for the folks who don't know..a LS1 is a fully alloy ..heads..block ..347 cude small block V8 

Also..very very nice work Fred..Kits bang on..great wood effects 👏 

[kerick]

There's no replacement for displacement!

[Rick Lowe]

Otherwise known as 'There's no substitute for inches!'...

OTOH, it's no use having something that can eat the competition if it eats itself first... I've seen footage of a dragster that backfired or something and it blew the manifold and carburetor assembly clean off the engine block...  

[PR19_Kit]

OTOH, it's no use having something that can eat the competition if it eats itself first... I've seen footage of a dragster that backfired or something and it blew the manifold and carburetor assembly clean off the engine block...  

We used to see that quite frequently in the early days of drag racing in the UK, blowers and intakes and stuff all vanishing skywards about 100 yards down the strip, followed by a deathly silence and then some scraping as the car hit the crash rails..............

Very few drivers got hurt though, just their wallets generally.

[Rick Lowe]

 

[kerick]

You used to find some huge V-8 engines in power boats. Some were 500 cu. Then there were the Ford combines that had the Ford V-8 Winsor engines. Once the motorheads figured that out those old combines disappeared quickly.

[zenrat]

OTOH, it's no use having something that can eat the competition if it eats itself first... I've seen footage of a dragster that backfired or something and it blew the manifold and carburetor assembly clean off the engine block...  

We used to see that quite frequently in the early days of drag racing in the UK, blowers and intakes and stuff all vanishing skywards about 100 yards down the strip, followed by a deathly silence and then some scraping as the car hit the crash rails..............

Very few drivers got hurt though, just their wallets generally.

Was it Don Garlits who nearly lost his feet when the engine detonated in the front engined dragster he was driving?
He went on to pioneer the development of the rear engined dragster which  became the standard slingshot layout.

[PR19_Kit]

Was it Don Garlits who nearly lost his feet when the engine detonated in the front engined dragster he was driving?
He went on to pioneer the development of the rear engined dragster which  became the standard slingshot layout.

It sure was 'Big Daddy'.

There were rear engined dragsters before, one of them came to the 1964 Dragfest over here, the late Tony Nancy's Plymouth engined 'Wedge II' car, and very impressive it was too, but Garlits got the idea to work a lot better.



There's a great short period video of the first of the events here and the Wedge II is shown running right toward the end, but it's only a 2 minute vid. I must be in it somewhere as I went to all the events that year, a GREAT time, lots of tales to tell about that. 

https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/video-american-drag-racers-invade-england-1964/

[zenrat]

Thanks Kit.  From an aesthetic PoV I prefer the Front Engine Dragsters but I get why driving with your feet either side of the transmission and your bum over the diff isn't that great an idea.

I realised yesterday that I never posted finished pics of the 1/25 AMT Subaru Brumby (Brat) I built.
I took some pics yesterday.

Subaru Brumby - 1 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Subaru Brumby - 3 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Subaru Brumby - 5 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Subaru Brumby - 7 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Subaru Brumby - 10 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Subaru Brumby - 14 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Subaru Brumby - 16 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

It's arguably a whiff inasmuch as this model wasn't sold in Australia and I converted it to RHD.  However, if they were sold in Japan or another RHD market then it's not a whiff.

[zenrat]

In other news, ants have moved into part of my stash.  They appear to be nesting somewhere in the section devoted to the pre/early WW2 French kits and the big stuff.  Plenty of room for a colony in a 1/72 B-36 box.
I have laid down some Ant-Rid which they will carry back to the nest and poison the family.
This requires patience but is in the long term much less damaging to the plastic, cardboard, and paper than pulling everything out and either spraying with WD40 or drowning them in a bucket.
Don't ask me how I know this.

[su27rules]

            I like it!! 

[buzzbomb]

Ant Rid.. a long time favourite tool

[PR19_Kit]

I'm not sure Subaru sold that mini-ute in the UK either, I've never seen one, only pics of them in the US.

[Old Wombat]

I'm not sure Subaru sold that mini-ute in the UK either, I've never seen one, only pics of them in the US.

The Brumby, in both the (more usual) ute & stationwagon (a.k.a. Sportswagon) variants, were quite popular in Australia for quite a few years.



Note: The 2nd Gen was sold in the UK as either the MV Pickup or Shifter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_BRAT