Porsche 917 K 1971 Heller 1/24

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February 24, 2021
Checking body parts fit.
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February 24, 2021
Which is not within Tamiya level.
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February 24, 2021
Colour checking for the engine.
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February 24, 2021
First set of parts being assembled.
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February 24, 2021
Rather curious the way Heller managed to mould these tyres ....
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February 24, 2021
In two parts each.
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February 24, 2021
I added a thin strip of silver decal to simulate the gasket on the throttle slide castings.
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February 24, 2021
When checking the fitting of the engine to the chassis I found out that the fan interfered with the rear bodywork .
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February 24, 2021
So I had to remove it and put it some mm back later on ,,, when all the wires and hoses will be in place.
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February 24, 2021
Wiring time..... 12 wires each side
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February 24, 2021
Admission "trumpets" and support plates .... a strip of thin plasticard was added.
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February 24, 2021
First stack of ignition wires added and painted.
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February 24, 2021
Also added the oil distribution casting for the valve covers and two pulleys. All scratch-built.
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February 24, 2021
The hoses ...
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February 24, 2021
and the PU belt driving the fuel injection unit made from scratch.
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February 24, 2021
For the second stack of ignition wires , I did it the other way round. Instead of gluing the wires to the spark-plug holes and afterwards attaching the wires together ...
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February 24, 2021
first I glued the wires together in groups of 3 ...
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February 24, 2021
.... painted the wires in Gunze flat red.... and then glued in place.
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February 24, 2021
Time to add fuel lines .... also from 0,1 mm cooper wire.
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February 24, 2021
Second stack of ignition wires in place.
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February 24, 2021
... also fan and fuel lines in place.
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February 24, 2021
As are the inlet "trumpets".
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February 24, 2021
I'm not boring holes in the intake trumpets as they will no be seen when the cover is in place.
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February 24, 2021
For this project I tryed this very tool .... it's perfect for scraping round section parts, specially small ones like the frames of the chassis. I can’t recommend it strongly enough.
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February 24, 2021
This should represent the gear-change linkage at the gearbox end.
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February 24, 2021
Not truly correct but that's enough for me.
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May 18, 2021
The kit's seat is rather crude and also the "passenger" seat is lacking.
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May 18, 2021
So I made a new one by enlarging the seat from a 1/32 Porsche 917/10 Matchbox kit ..... bicarbonate and CA glue has been used to fill the gaps

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5 April 2025, 11:00 -

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Not a retro-poject even this kit is an oldie. I'll try to bring it to accetable standarts , but not going to add every nut and bolt. For instance exhausts are absolutely wrong but they will stay as is, as will some parts of the space-frame chassis. I've read that this is a difficult kit to build ,,, let's see ....
So far I've got some fitting issues with the engine to the chassis.

Porsche 917K

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