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new engine builder · Post by **new engine builder** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:11 am

3V Performance wrote:Vacation???

Thats what the off season is for.

What's the "off season"???

axegrinder · Post by **axegrinder** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:48 am

new engine builder wrote:What's the "off season"???

I just about worked myself into a nervous breakdown in the "off season." Where is the smiley in a straight jacket?

Y BE AVG · Post by **Y BE AVG** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:06 am

Wait isn't the off season our busy time???? Am I doing this stuff wrong again???? Ok back to work.

CNC BLOCKS · Post by **CNC BLOCKS** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:30 am

3V Performance wrote:Vacation???

Thats what the off season is for.

What off season?? your just use to working for the Cup teams

Wolfplace · Post by **Wolfplace** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:37 am

What the hell is a vacation???

Vacation
The time you take off to do all the crap you didn't have time to do while working,,,,

Self Employment
The thing we decided to do in leiu of working at a real job so we could work longer hours to make less money

CNC BLOCKS · Post by **CNC BLOCKS** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:56 pm

Talked to a shop owner today that had 2 Marine BBC's come in becasue the heads were leaking water that another shop had built, These engines had 35 hours on them and the POCOMP 320 RUNNER HEADS were completely rotted out.

Another fine quality chinese product.

axegrinder · Post by **axegrinder** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:28 pm

CNC BLOCKS wrote:Talked to a shop owner today that had 2 Marine BBC's come in becasue the heads were leaking water that another shop had built, These engines had 35 hours on them and the POCOMP 320 RUNNER HEADS were completely rotted out.

Another fine quality chinese product.

I bet they flowed some big numbers though! With throats that are 94%!

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Denis

machine shop tom · Post by **machine shop tom** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:18 pm

CNC BLOCKS wrote:Talked to a shop owner today that had 2 Marine BBC's come in becasue the heads were leaking water that another shop had built, These engines had 35 hours on them and the POCOMP 320 RUNNER HEADS were completely rotted out.

Another fine quality chinese product.

Hey, Carl, were those "POCOMP 320" (gotcha) heads in a salt-water or fresh-water boat?

tom

ProPower engines · Post by **ProPower engines** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:05 pm

Even if the engine was raw water cooler and in salt water that ain't alot of time to rot them out..
I have some OEM heads here with several hundred hours that were raw water cooled then converted to a heat exchanger system after 250hrs
They must be real thin to rot that fast but in a way not superizing as they have larger ports ect and cooling passages must be reduced combined with old toyota bumbers to make them............................

Racerrick · Post by **Racerrick** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:47 pm

Wolfplace wrote:What the hell is a vacation???

Vacation
The time you take off to do all the crap you didn't have time to do while working,,,,

Self Employment
The thing we decided to do in leiu of working at a real job so we could work longer hours to make less money

Your making money????

CNC BLOCKS · Post by **CNC BLOCKS** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:34 am

machine shop tom wrote:
CNC BLOCKS wrote:Talked to a shop owner today that had 2 Marine BBC's come in becasue the heads were leaking water that another shop had built, These engines had 35 hours on them and the POCOMP 320 RUNNER HEADS were completely rotted out.

Another fine quality chinese product.
Hey, Carl, were those "POCOMP 320" (gotcha) heads in a salt-water or fresh-water boat?

tom

Tom

Salt water but these guys have seen good heads go 7 years in the same water a no problems like this.

RW TECH · Post by **RW TECH** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:52 am

Serves him right for buying junk.

Unkl Ian · Post by **Unkl Ian** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:12 am

With the money they "saved", now they can buy another set.

catbox · Post by **catbox** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:35 pm

Keith Morganstein wrote:16 pages, mostly political BS.

How about some data?

exactly!,..carl seems to have plenty of time for everything but give the facts,...

CNC BLOCKS · Post by **CNC BLOCKS** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:51 pm

catbox wrote:exactly!,..carl seems to have plenty of time for everything but give the facts,...

Oh I think that pics and facts I have given so far are a pretty good so far and today we had a rush job for anther shop and being on vacation this week I willget to the probing of the block next week for sure.

Unless you can do it faster then maybe you should step up to the bat here.

Right now I am not going to make a dime on this brand-x block and I have spent at least 30 plus hours of emails and phone calls already. And I am behind in the shop but the next time I am on the CNC machine it will go in and be checked out,

If the main line and cam tunnel was the correct size it would have been done a week ago!!!