Recent content by RAMM

Decking an LA is an absolute must. It is more important than a line hone (if youre not dealing with a spun bearing). Ma Mopar left the decks so absurdly tall and random and crooked it is a machining travesty. Skip the line hone and deck it to zero with these Mahle pistons/rings... These are the...

This is at BDC. J.Rob

My buddys carbs are just incredible. J.Rob

I figured I had a T-10 pattern on my plate but I did not. J.Rob

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The only shot of the piston I have on my phone. J.Rob

Truing up the exhaust side of the heads. J.Rob

Even monkeyed with an LS style rocker but the customer wanted full roller. J.Rob

I should have milled a slot to capture the pedestal perfectly ticked at myself for thinking of it after the fact. J.Rob

Sorry for the sideways conversion. J.Rob

This one was a fun project, haven't done an AMC in about 20years. Customer is a Jeep fanatic and wanted a good build with about 375hp. Customer supplied the cam and intake manifold and the core 360 of course. After doing some research on these and some measurements rotating assembly was decided...

Because the .484" is a POS and there are hundreds of better options. J.Rob

I see ZERO criticism in my post and ironically it WAS filled with valuable tech. Speaking of sharing tech-- I have shared tech (info) umm, literally hundreds if not thousands of times. Sorry for hurting your feelings. J.Rob P.S. I was "sharing" what I went through battling chatter and was...

I don't have chatter problems when cutting but rigidity is of the utmost importance. The machine you are using and it's column design/fixturing and spindle size needs to be as short/stocky and as large as possible. Then there's the tooling and cutter geometry. You absolutely need carbide pilots...