[WIP] 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO-seats, rear axle, gearbox

[Alex Ilea]

Again arguments about tires, so I will make it clear for all: tires stay like that.

@I_Igor here is frontal pic:

Head lights cand be changed.

@move5 and @Leonardo da Bricki Here is the mini V12 (unike design btw):

Clear view here (unique crangshaft):

And those are #5 conectors, not 90° .

Next update will be working gearbox and engine deatiling.

Thanks @Aleh

Edited August 5, 2017 by IA creations

[move5]

11 minutes ago, IA creations said:

Again arguments about tires, so I will make it clear for all: tires stay like that.

Well, if you still want to do it with those tires, I'm not going to argue about it any more. Sorry if my comments sounded like offence, but please think that I only wanted to help you. Whatever, I am really looking forward to seeing more progress.

[Alex Ilea]

@move5 Thx :)

[1gor]

@IA creations frontal picture shows that front lights look good proortioned, but I'll wait to see how you will "fill" front part of the bodywork so no gaps will be visible and there are 3 smaller air inttakes just above main one ...

[Alex Ilea]

:)

[Leonardo da Bricki]

@IA creations Thanks for the photos of the engine! I think this will fit great in my new project!

Edited August 5, 2017 by Leonardo da Bricki
Wrong name...

[Meatman]

Looking pretty good so far.

[Alex Ilea]

2 hours ago, Leonardo da Bricki said:

@IA creations Thanks for the photos of the engine! I think this will fit great in my new project!

Great :) !

@Meatman thanks

[1gor]

18 hours ago, Leonardo da Bricki said:

@IA creations Thanks for the photos of the engine! I think this will fit great in my new project!

It happens, do not worry 

[Alex Ilea]

@I_Igor 

[1gor]

35 minutes ago, IA creations said:

@I_Igor 

Well we both have first letter "I" in nickname on Eurobricks...

[Alex Ilea]

Update time :D

I made a nice seat design(but I think the lower part needs to be 1 stud bigger, correct me if I'm wrong):

And I made a strong rear axle(includind realistic Watt's linkage):

And now comes the gearbox problem, I wanted to make one(and I still want) like in @Rudivdk's family car, but I after adding the shifter, the whole gearbox was bigger than I expected and it can't fit well and it will require some u joints to connect to the engine and rear axle which I am afraid that it will work bad at the end. 

If I use the gearbox as it is (like one in super street sansation) it makes my life easyer but it will look ugly and to wide. 

What should I do guys? 

Oh and the rest of the car is pretty much the same.

Edited August 29, 2017 by IA creations

[1gor]

Seat and rear axle look ok. Real axle looks like you made and real 250 GTO had 5 + R manual fully synchronesh transmision with gear changing shema just like set 8448 and 8466, so you can make studless version of them to integrate it in your MOC 

[Alex Ilea]

11 minutes ago, I_Igor said:

Seat and rear axle look ok. Real axle looks like you made and real 250 GTO had 5 + R manual fully synchronesh transmision with gear changing shema just like set 8448 and 8466, so you can make studless version of them to integrate it in your MOC 

But it will be to wide and it will look uglyy

[1gor]

Just now, IA creations said:

But it will be to wide and it will look uglyy

You can make it narrow if you make construction that holds gears from bottom and above and to have free sides...so gears are very close to seats

[Alex Ilea]

22 minutes ago, I_Igor said:

You can make it narrow if you make construction that holds gears from bottom and above and to have free sides...so gears are very close to seats

Will try!

[1gor]

13 minutes ago, IA creations said:

Will try!

Good luck 

[Alex Ilea]

I managed make something!

It works almost perfectley(I haven't done it studless). It just needs 2 stickers to show the gear you are in and then it is finished. Here is the gearbox toghether with the seats:

And everything fits perfectley :D

Thank you @I_Igor for makeing me go for this setup 

Edited August 29, 2017 by IA creations

[1gor]

@IA creations you're wellcome. Stickers that would help are from 8466 set or styled like one from that set...

Gearbox looks good! 

[mzzl88]

shouldn't the engine be placed a few studs forwards...? if you look up the details of the car the engine is placed between the front suspension 

[Dafgek81]

The motor looks tiny in the car, think it should be bigger.

[1gor]

On 8/30/2017 at 5:50 PM, mzzl88 said:

shouldn't the engine be placed a few studs forwards...? if you look up the details of the car the engine is placed between the front suspension 

Engine is placed just behind front axle...and as @Dafgek81 said it should be bigger. This was the biggest engine (dinensions of engine block) when you ignore America series that use (if I remember correctly) engines constructed by Lampredi. 250GTO uses further development of 250 TR (TestaRossa) engine which means red head, so it should be better and it should have red heads (6 weber double carburators...).

You got the picture...

[Alex Ilea]

1 hour ago, I_Igor said:

You got the picture...

Not really 

[1gor]

10 hours ago, IA creations said:

Not really 

Car has V12 with red heads and 6 double carburators, bore 73mm, stroke 58.8mm, 300HP at 7500rpm...I wanted to point out that to make such car you have to read number of books about it (not Internet) and then see how good can you make a proper model. Instead of black panels that look like plastic cover it would be better to make "naked" LEGO fake engine with red plate above and round bricks that pretend to  be carburators...

I hope that you now understand my point of view. Sorry for late replay...

[Alex Ilea]

So instead of those black covers should I add some red plates and for the dual carbs I use this: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=62462#T=C ? Btw, I looked at this image when building the engine: https://www.google.ro/search?q=1962+ferrari+250+gto+engine&client=ms-android-huawei&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiP9tqozIPWAhXBC5oKHWu9BlQQ_AUICSgB&biw=360&bih=524#imgrc=E8vE61ajduP2YM: