Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

After you have the engine all clean and you're done with the pressure washer, turn the burner off and hit it with cold water. The heat of the block burning the water off of it is what causes the flash rusting. I always give it a bit of cold at the end and then hit it with a couple squirts of wd40 be...

This damage was on the rocker side correct?

I'd take an extremely close look at all the rocker cups and put a good set of pushrods in it and let it go another week then more close examinations.

Always assume any stroker setup is going to need clearancing until you have personally verified it yourself

How did this every turn out? Did you get it up and running and see any positive results?

Sounds like something that you need to tell him to take his mismatched parts and go fly a kite! That or buy new parts and do it right. If you let this guy walk over you on this deal you'll be left holding the bag guaranteed. You're gonna cut corners to make him happy and the engine will suffer for i...

So if I'm reading this right, I should keep on with my approach of seeing what shops produce quality, track-proven work and then don't worry too much about what they are using? I was honestly just surprised that the CNC seemed to be the same price as the fixture work. I'll keep poking around, and I...

pdq67 wrote:A long shot, but is Jahns Pistons still around??

I want to say that back in the '60's, they made, "sand-cast", pistons.

pdq67

That's the "J" in JE

Any AN style hone would work fine. For a number of years we had a manual stroke Axe machine.

Your only adaptation you'll need will be to trim the bottom of the stone head flush to the stones so you can get all the way to the bottom of the bores.

We bore and sleeve a lot of marine engines and are also located in missouri! Whatever you get, make sure you get the blind hole tooling so you can bore all the way to the bottom. Your manufacturer should have it or you can get it from the usual Goodson/Regis or Lacey Williams. We use a Rottler F2VB ...

There are plenty of variants of the Gen 1 SBC that will take some horsepower and RPM. None of them are stock production car pieces.

You have the Bowtie variants, the Dart blocks, the World blocks, Donovan, etc, etc, etc,......

pdq67 wrote:Where do you get your used 502" BBC core blocks instead of buying a new one?

pdq67

Marine salvage use, these days good luck finding them and check for rust.

what floats are in it?

travis wrote:Kooks makes a set of stainless 1 3/4" long tubes with 3" collectors. They should fit..if you can get past the $1300 price tag

If you are gonna pay somebody to custom make you a set of stainless headers you'd wish they were only $1300.

I've been looking at it, still debating on whether I'm going or not.

Well, I will let the cat out of the bag... here is a breakdown of the timeslip... 1.20 60' 3.93 330' 5.66 660' 121 MPH People are amazed when they find out it is only 304" running at 3200 lbs with just a 175hp.... We are heading to Memphis TN this coming weekend for the Mod Motor Nationals. We...