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Sorry for the long absence fellas. I've been working my off on my 1:1 scale 1994 Chevrolet Silverado the last couple of months. Early on it was all in the planning and preparation stages. I wanted to swap my tired old 350 out for a more improved powerplant. The selection.............a small block 383 stroker. I wanted to keep the GM throttle body injection setup which meant that I had to do some research. In order to feed all those cubes I was going to need a better fuel delivery , fuel injection and ignition system. I started by replacing the stock fuel pump with a 155 lph unit. The stock 420 cfm throttle body got replaced with a 680 cfm body and I used 454 fuel injectors. The engine has a four barrel carbureted manifold so I had to find an adapter to make everything work. I also had the transmission completely rebuilt and beefed up to take all these upgrades and went with a 2000 rpm stall converter to jazz things up a bit. All in all it's been alot of fun and I've given up all my bench time over it since September. I can say that it's been a fun venture in the research as well as the work that went into it. I do look forward to joining you guys here shortly.
The test subject:
The engine before:
and the engine after:
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Welcome back...and congratulations on the project! It's looking great.
Wish I had the 'bench space' to work on 1:1; 1/24 is about the biggest I can manage!
Cheers
Greg
George Lewis:
Always a treat to get an update from you, Joe.
Nice project.
Just how much glue did it take ,to get the engine mounted???
Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Now get your fanny back to the bench and return to being a productive modeler. And let's not let anything like this happen again. Sheesh.
P.S Good to have you back brother.
"Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did". George Carlin
Missed you around here Joe, good to have you back buddy! Nice work on the project too!
-Andy
Thanks for the warm welcome back fellas. I've got some catching up to do around here. This time away has been good for me at the bench because I will not be taking on any new projects for a while. I've got ALOT of unfinished business from this year that needs to be completed so I'll be working my way back through all my unfinished projects. Looking forward to re-joining you folks. Merry Christmas you guys.
Life size project? I'm on one too and missing in action. Modelers work at any scale. It's the same deal of problem solving and entertainment.
Good job on that project!
Max
Great to see you back Joe!!!
Hunter
You're going to need a bigger shelf!
Gary
GAF You're going to need a bigger shelf! Gary
That is funny.
Nice to have you back. Congratulations on your 1/1 build.
Your friend, Toshi
On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell
Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world. Mrs. Toshi
Hodakamax Life size project? I'm on one too and missing in action. Modelers work at any scale. It's the same deal of problem solving and entertainment. Good job on that project! Max
Thanks for the comments everybody. Lookin' forward to getting back in here.
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