Cylinder head dyno shoot out

NC Engine Builder said
It's funny you say that, I have been thinking that since I bought the line hone. Seems counter-intuitive to cut the caps, then hone with the mandrel weight laying in the block.

I took the time years ago when I had a VERY serious customer bring me an aluminum Buick TA block with billet steel caps at the time it cost 10,000 CDN. No joke this friggin block was 10k unfinished. I thought about it and thought about it and I just couldn't see how the mandrel wouldn't hone more out of the aluminum than the much harder main caps. I built the fixture you see here and the job turned out perfect. I would have ruined the block had I attempted it the conventional way. In fact I was just watching a Steve Morris video and I was shocked to see his guy line honing a Brodix aluminum BBC for "Cleetus" the normal way. I could see in the video and the way it was edited how he fought and fought and it definately didn't turn out great at all. I was shocked because I consider SM highly intelligent and intuitive... I charge more for it this way than the traditional way because it is a PITA..but sometimes the longway is the shortway---IYKYK. J.Rob

p.s. Here's a picture of how I made my fixturing<<NC. J.Rob