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    Apart from being beautiful as always, I was interested by the way the fuel tank overhangs the top of the oil tank. Any pipework would be a pain to work on. It's also not clear how they installed the tank. Ideally it would go in from below but the chassis would be in the way. So they must have had to take the body off, and the fuel tank out to get the oil tank out. Sounds a bit of a faff. But maybe that is the way it has always been. They must have had the tank out because we know they added baffles. I'd loved to have talked to them about how the car was to work on. Regards Nick
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    Thumbs up from me. "just a matter of ..." LoL. Not the way I do it! NIck
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    Certainly looking funky!
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    Hans J, I beg your forgiveness in hijacking your thread with a discussion on Alfasuds, I promise i will stop after this post. My brother's was also fantastic but why they made them soluable in water I have never understood. He used to spend a lot of time welding! Regards Nick
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    For me, Slade and Sweet were both good but not as good as Queen. ... and my brother had at least one Alfasud - but rusty white rather than hippy orange I think. Nick
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    One thing about that orange is that it is very 70s.
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    Thanks for the clarification. That must make it a relatively straightforward upgrade path if it is properly engineered. Thanks again for sharing. Regards Nick
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    Thanks for sharing that CC. May be enough to prompt me to have a go. (don't hold your breath though). One question, are the motor mounts off the shelf or have you had to make them to fit your installation?
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    Just wow.
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    Welcome, I agree with Spiny. Unusual is always good. ATB Nick
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    Stephen, As the others said this is looking good. What scale are the printed parts? and what material? They look much smoother than is often the case. Regards Nick
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    Great to see this aircraft coming to life - so Thunderbirds. Amazing. As with so many aircraft of that era, what were the designers thinking. Keep up the good work Nick
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    Harvey It looks good to me though I am not sure any of us would argue with you. Love the oil filter. One thing that has struck me from the photos is just how neat Fiat were with the routing of wires and pipes. I think they would have been happy with your solutions. Regards Nick
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    That is exactly what I have been doing. I basically have 3 Google translate tabs open. The first has the text typed from the report (misspellings, illegibilities and all). The second has another It to Eng translation window that I can use for individual words and the 3rd has Eng to It so I can look up what the It word for "spark-plug" actually is! That gets me close. Then I have to translate the resulting "English" into english. As you say a great learning opportunity. Not sure the original author, an engineer presumably, was particularly good at spelling! Hannes, thanks for the drawings - another useful resource. Regards Nick
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    Stephen, Looking good. Engine was particularly impressive. Nick
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    Chaps, Excellent - need to take some time to absorb it all. Regards Nick
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    Chaps, Hope all is well. Here's the next installment of tech report translation. 6° After a few laps, the fuel tank temperature reached 47° and additional cooling in the bodywork was required. -- I assume this is the set of slots, we discussed at length, in the rear bodywork. They always looked a bit of an afterthought. Is this just me catching up? Unfortunately the only photo we have for this period is too small to show whether the slots were there 7° The attachment pin in one of the Hartford damper rosettes broke 8° The oil pan breather has not improved: transverse bulkheads in the tank itself will be necessary to prevent oil movement during braking. -- I think we knew this from elsewhere 9 ° The R2 sparkplugs are still subject to unusual cracking. -- All of these things just confirm again that this was a proper cutting edge racing car. More soon Regards Nick
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    Excellent as always
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    Love the results so far.
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    I'm late to the party as always. You look like you are beginning to get the hang of this modelling lark! Even having spent all the time I have on the virtual model, these views make it really come to life. For instance In this shot, the fact the radiator may have had two pipes makes sense but it must have wrapped round the cross member (which I have not drawn yet because it was not important!). If this was the case, it must have been a right pain to install the tank in the car. They would have had to put the tank in from the top and then bolted the radiator in from the bottom. Taking it out would have been worse. There would have been oil everywhere. I bet the mechanics loved the designer of that! Looking great as always. Keep up the good work. Frank - you undersell you skills, sir - I have enjoyed all your build threads, marvelling at the apparent ease with which shapes emerge from wood or metal. For my money you can stand shoulder to shoulder with the other work here. ATB all Nick
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    Hannes, In the absence of any more direct evidence, your idea is a good one. It should help get the right feel. There is quite a lot of similiarities between the installations, a house style if you will. They seem to have made quite a lot of effort to keep things tidy. e.g. ignition leads are tied together but do not pass through a tube. Pipes are insulated where they might get heated. Pity the last picture is a bit dark. I would have liked to see what the cylinders looked like. ATB Nick
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    That looks the business - outstanding.
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    Re: nr4 - I had assumed that too. On Drawing 1 - I have no idea who drew it or why. It's certainly caused a lot of confusion. Nick
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    Chaps, Below are approximate translations of the first 5 bullets from the test report. I've gone for general gist. Going through the article it is becoming clear that not only is it difficult to read but there are some mispellings typos and deletions that add to the fun. The sequence is weird. I wondered if it was prioritised in some way but its not obvious. 1. Is some specific details about the petrol pressure valve clearance being 10mm and the valve needing to be mounted accessibly. 2. The magneto life seems to have been a concern. The actual problem is unclear to me, but they were planning to ask the supplier to verify the components. They also seemed to fear that they would need to send them back to Stuttgart for repairs. They want to use Milan instead where the wear is not too severe. 3. They were happy with the engine crankcase oil venting system but there is a bit of oil loss through the "lateral distribution boxes". It was thought that they would need to protect the brake servo specifically absorbent pads and filters 4. They confirmed that the panel on the right hand side was removed because the heat build up was affecting the driver. Removal also gave a slightly better flow through the radiator. 5. Only development tyres were available for the tests and they did not last more than 15 racing laps. They were going to ask Pirelli when the final tyres would be available. That's as far as I have got at the moment. They provide a lovely insight into the sorts of things they were worrying about both big and small. 5 is my favorite I think. 90 years on teams are still whinging about tyres and Pirelli's performance. Who would want to be a tyre manufacturer. Regards Nick
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    Harvey Which drawing was the cylinder that you mentioned on the RH side of the engine. Was it the engine cross-section? If so is it the one behind and below the oil exit with the six squares arranged in a circle? I assume this is the oil filter as it is downstream of the pump before the oil is used by the engine. Looking at the engine drawings again, prompted by Hannes' video, I noticed a couple of things for the first time. The pump does indeed have two stages that are different lengths as the video said would be the case. The other thing was the cross section of the chamber where the oil enters the pump. Regards Nick
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