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The four hose fittings (and one plug) were threaded into their respective holes and sealed with Permatex 59214 thread sealant. A male Futaba RC connector carrying power to the motor was JB Welded in place and its wiring routed along side the frame of the motor. The speed control pot was also...

First class modeling. What are you using for source documents? Do you have one of the Tritons to work from? - Terry

A late night labor of love ... Back in the good(?) ol' days the seamed flange between a fuel tank's pressed-formed galvanized halves was used to mount the tank in an opening in the floor of the car's trunk. Nowadays, it's not unusual to find a plastic tank hanging under a car by a couple...

Half step forward, one step back ... I want to try something different for the fuel tank and thought making a scaled-down 60's Ford gas tank would be fun. Since all the running accessories I've been making will be prominently mounted along side the engine, I started looking at possible layouts...

Bitchin' ... Did you do all this yourself Steve?

Short rant ... From the early 80's through the mid 2000's the only cars we owned were 60's era muscle cars that evolved through continuous restorations. All were Fords except for my wife's Monte Carlo 454 SS which was the only GM car we ever owned. I developed a love/hate relationship with that...

Could you give more detail about these. I'm not sure what they are. Do the balls rotate like a ball point pen? - Terry

I don't have one on hand to compare, but I think mine's a little big. - Terry

Ford produced several iterations of their 60's era voltage regulators, but all of them looked similar to the one in the first photo. The older Autolites were relay-type regulators with bendable adjustment tabs while the newer Motorcraft units were fully electronic and non-adjustable. All had...

I used an Acro barrel lap and 600g lapping compound to finish mine. One to 1-1/2 thousandths is a max to leave for lapping. Any more and it's a long messy weekend. You'll want to lap and measure a little off each liner (keeping track on a written record) to help insure they all come out the...

I seem to fight a losing battle in every build while trying to scale the ignition components. I invariably end up with an oversized and tightly packed module that will be difficult to later maintain. Even at its whopping one-third scale, the 289's ignition was no exception. The module's final...

Peter, Roy can step in and correct me, but I think there's a little confusion created by one of the units in his reply. An 8 cylinder 4-cycle engine running at 5000 rpm needs 5000 rev/min x 4 sparks/rev = 20,000 sparks/min which is what Roy says his unit will deliver when driven at 5 volts...

It's one of Roy's magnums. I'll be using a voltage regulator module to drop the 12 volt battery voltage down to exactly 6V. Not sure how the lifetime of Roy's CDI's are affected by voltages higher than 6V, but he was always adamant about not going any higher. - Terry

Time to come up with the design was about 20 hours. Total machining time was about 6 hours. - Terry

The ignition module is designed around one of Roy Sholl's CDI's. Roy sold both regular and 'magnum' versions of his CDI's with the higher sparks/sec magnums intended for multi-cylinder engines. I believe the differences between the two were that the magnums which were intended to be driven at a...

I thought I would give the engine a name. I am going to try and enhance the name so it shows up better. Do you have any ideas? I have luck filling in the text with a paint pen ...

The radiator parts were bead blasted and Gun-Kote'd satin black. The finished radiator was too big to fit inside my shop's heat treat oven, and so the core and the tanks were painted and heat cured separately prior to final assembly. In the past I used our kitchen oven to bake large painted...

It's called Gun Kote. After a 300F cure it's tough and pretty impervious to engine fluids and many solvents. - Terry

A primarily cosmetic shroud was designed for the radiator and machined from black Delrin. It's mounted to a pair of side rails attached to the sides of the radiator core. Machining Delrin is a hoot and an opportunity to run with the big boys with speeds and feeds at near full tilt. Both faces of...

Peter, I've never tried that particular brand, but I have played with others I was tempted to buy at shows. It was never as easy to use at home as it appeared in the demos with the right amount of heat coming from practice, and the window is pretty narrow. With the mixed results I've personally...