Small update.
Finished the bowl / throat areas on the heads, also went over all the exhaust ports with a crossbuff wheel ( 1st time using those, will be buying more). They are now ready to go back to the machine shop to have the valve job done.
Also spent some time on the intake manifold. Laid...
Heads are back on my bench so that i can finish up the bowl / ss port work, then they willl be going to the machine shop for a valve job. I ended up getting all new Ferrea valve guides sized for 8mm stems, and will be running 2.08/1.6 Ferrea 8mm +.100 LS style valves. This will help with overall...
Not quite a solid conversion, but when I was cleaning my last set of magnum rollers, I happened to have a set of factory ls1 roller lifter in the shop. After tearing them both apart I realized that the internals are the same diameter between the two. So I took the ls internals and put them into...
Litte progress update, spent some time detailing the chambers and the spark plug hole. Then turned my attention to the exhaust ports. Mainly just a port match and smoothing, did a little bit of blend work where the large divot is in the back of the port just above the seat. Also laid the SS over...
I did not, that way if I had to do any welding in the port I wouldn't have to fight with cleaning it out 1st. Once I have the new push rod holes drilled I'm going to weld both ends of the plugs shut so there will be no chance of a leak. But from what I've seen thus far I'd be willing to bet the...
No big updates today, just going along and repeating the ports across the head. A little thing I found to help keep the shapes the same from port to port was a piece of welding wire bent to the profile and use it as a checking gauge. This was very handy in the area where the pinch was removed...
For now they will be going on a sbe 5.9 mag with a 242/[email protected] .600/.600 110 cam. Have another engine on the stand to be built and will either be going compression and cubes or a supercharger. Haven't decided on that yet.