Wow, lots of questions to answer. I'll try to answer all of them, but first thank you for your kind remarks and words of encouragement.
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Originally Posted by mikemechanic
Wow looks great Mike. Can you tell me how you are holding the counterweight in the jaws? I've been trying to figure out how to hold those type of pieces in my lathe jaws. Thanks.
Mike.
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Mike, I'm machined a piece of rod that fit in the counterweight journal hole very snugly. I then just tightened the jaws in the rod making sure the back face of the counterweight was flush with the face of the jaws.
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Originally Posted by rsxse240
this is absolutely amazing!! are you going to take as long on this as the SUPERB 7? you already seem to be on the same path. keep it up!!
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I believe Mark has been working on his project for nearly three years as well, only difference is he is almost done. The beginning of March will mark the three year anniversary since starting this project in 2004.
I still have quite a ways to go. Nothing is anywhere close to complete. I'm shooting for completion between November 2008 and the 2009 GSL. No guarantee's though.
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Originally Posted by willimo
How are you going to formulate the scale grease?
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I think you got me there Will. I'll actually be using RC oil from my shocks as its a really thin lubricant. I will use it to lube the crank and cams. Now that makes me question, is oil a raw material? Or will this project only be 99.9% scratch built?
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Originally Posted by quadzero
This is amazing, if I had a stroke of genius and created this beautiful crankshaft, I would make a little stand for it and display it as is. Very impressive. Your wip is definitely not boring, keep up the great work.
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Nice play on words. I did make a little stand for it, it just happens to be in the form of a crankcase and main caps with an oil pan for a cover.
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Originally Posted by Murray Kish
Whoa,
Tell me that's going to somehow be visible in the end product???
Murray
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Hey Murray, wonderful to see you around again. I hope all is well. The crank will only be visible through pictures when I'm done. However, when I'm displaying this at shows I will pull the valve cover off halfway through the show to show the internals.
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Originally Posted by klutz_100
Now, to give you some constructive feedback..... I hope you are keeping this well documented and making notes because this build HAS to be written up and published as a book - NOT a magazine article.
When it is published, please remember it was my idea and send me an autographed first edition, OK?
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Thanks for the constructive feedback. I've been keeping this extremely well documented. I've already talked with editors that have asked to publish my progress and do a spread upon completion. Lots of notes, lots of articles, lots of pictures. You can already see my scratch build seminars in Model Cars Magazine.
Once again everybody, thanks for all the kind remarks.
It seems I'm my own worst critic. My crank wasn't straight enough for me, and I didn't like the tolerance between the main sleeves and the journals before and after chroming. So I pulled apart the crank and started re-machining the journals then I'll set it in my jig and solder it up soon.