As promissed the engine.
Thanks for the replies guys! 2 out of 275 views... bad record! LOL
I would like to point out that from what I can assume by referances this '85 Spa winner chasis E24 RA2-34 driven by Roberto Ravaglia, Gerhard Berger & Marc Surer had the 3475 cc variant of the legendary L6 M30 engine, M30b35 to be exact. The one with 3.5 on the intake manifold not the 3.2/3.5 wanna be.
Fujimi got that right but saddly the moulding of this was horrible, offseted and shallow so I had to sand it down loosing this important piece of information
I have made a lot of changes / improvements on this engine, let me show you.
Not fujimi or Tamiya have the casting lines on the intake so I made them by carving the plastic were needed and glueing very thin wires to simulate them.
What Fujimi offer for plug wire organizer is... a joke so I made this. Drilled all the holes passed the wires and remade the distributor attachments. Had to use thinner wire in this end because I had to get out 7 wires 6 for plugs 1 for the coil.
Also I made the trottle linkage body as close to original according to referances.
This is the beautifully molded getrag transmission this kit includes, my only regret is that I didn't had my airbrush running at this time so I had to brush paint all of the engine as you can see in the rough finnish of it
Here you can see the only piping work so far, plus various added / modified elements: The alternator is scratch builded or should I say "scratch carved" from the original no detail at all Fujimi offering. The Oil check needle is added detail also. The Mounting of the intake is scratch also because Fujimi didn't offer one. This mounting is for 3.5 engines, 3.2/3.5 engines had 2 mountings on top at each side of the intake.
The headers were painted a reddish matt color found on referances in dissagrement of the Fujimi instructions (matt alluminium), because at this time the rules said that the original production car headers had to be used.
1/1 engine
I have the heat shield made but not attached, I have to connect the throttle cable and other wires also, I have to weather a bit the headers so, this is not finished but wanted to show you my advance so far.
Made the pics smaller to help the 56k users but as always original size pics are on my fotki site
http://public.fotki.com/OrangeR/mode...35-2/progreso/
Next update: Suspension
Thanks for viewing!!!