Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Pocher kits

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

Including the oozing glue between the layers of carbon fiber? 😉

 

The only Pocher kit I have is a Bugatti Type 50 engine. Only the engine. As far as I know, they released only four stand-alone engine kits; The F40, Testarossa, Bugatti T50 and curiously, a Volvo truck diesel (they did have complete C.O.E. Volvo tractor truck kits which would be kinda neat to build up).

 

My impression was that it was less impressive to build. True, all of the internals are there, including coil springs over each valve and compression rings(!) on each piston. Problem with the rings was that they were so thick, that once installed on every piston and jammed into each cylinder, you couldn’t turn the crank! They were simply rolled pieces of wire which were way too thick. I deleted the rings entirely and now the crank turns like a hot knife in butter. Also, the camshaft drive didn’t mesh at all with the crank. I did plenty of modification to make that work. Once complete, it is very impressive looking. I mounted mine on a piece of aluminum plate that I engine turned on my drill press.

 

It was fun, but considering the faults I came across during this build, I wouldn’t consider buying a complete model (except maybe for that Volvo truck).

 

Peter

 

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From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dino308gt4=hotmail.com [at] ferrarilist.com> on behalf of Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 11:01:35 AM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Pocher kits

 

Actually, if the build quality on the F40 was crap, you could say it was an accurate representation of the 1:1 scale version...

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 6:23 AM, George <ygpz4re [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

Doug,

Pocher is either really great, or really, well, "not so great", depending on the kit.  As I mentioned in my other message (reply to Lashdeep), the Alfa kit was amazing.  The other two which I actually built (TR and F40) were like Burago die-casts on steroids.  Not very detailed, not great fit/finish, etc.  When I built the TR (in the late 80's), I had a friend who was a professional body man repaint all the metal body pieces, so it looked really great.  I also dummied up some of the hard fuel injection lines on the engine, added some braided steel brake lines, etc - to give it a bit more realism.  There are after-market kits which go FAR (VERY FAR!!) beyond what I did.  In fact, there are detail kits for just the engines alone, and then other kits for the rest of the car.

These cheap Pocher kits are fun and relatively easy to build (though I sold my last two - another F40 and the white TR Spyder) and look decent enough on the shelf - provided you don't examine them too closely!  But they don't hold a candle to the high-end Pocher kits.  Someone may know more than me, but I think it had to do with new ownership of the company, etc etc....

FWIW, YMMV, yadda yadda....

gp

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From: "Doug & Terri" <dnt [at] dock.net>
To: "'Peter Rychel'" <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com>


Pocher model kits?  Better - same - less?

 

DOUG

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