Race engine for my race svx. - Page 6

longassname · #76 01-04-2009, 08:40 AM

Calico re-opened their doors from the holidays and Tony's pistons are coated and on their way back to me now. The camshafts were shipped a while ago so they should show up any day now. Everything else is here already so when these last parts get here it will only take a couple or few days to finish it up.

In the mean time I'm building a transmission for Jonathan Winaker's car to go behind a built and supercharged engine.

longassname · #77 01-16-2009, 04:38 PM

Wikedjuggalo · #78 01-16-2009, 04:43 PM

something looks nice

longassname · #79 01-27-2009, 08:58 PM

Ya it is a thing of beauty isn't it? It's still sitting because UPS did us the favor of loosing Tony's cams (and one of my masters). They have done three traces now and can't find them so we are going to have to give up and make another set.

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Originally Posted by Wikedjuggalo

something looks nice

Tim · #80 01-27-2009, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by longassname

Ya it is a thing of beauty isn't it? It's still sitting because UPS did us the favor of loosing Tony's cams (and one of my masters). They have done three traces now and can't find them so we are going to have to give up and make another set.

What can Brown lose for you?

Sorry to hear that, in all seriousness... I've had them ship my radiator to the wrong houses and it took me an extra week of having no car before I was able to track where it actually went to.

longassname · #81 01-30-2009, 02:39 PM

in the mean time...

sicksubie · #82 01-30-2009, 04:00 PM

Mike, any idea what the crank hp goes to with one of your N/A builds with the higher CR pistons???

longassname · #83 01-31-2009, 06:25 PM

we'll have to wait and see. This is the first one both with these pistons and with these intake camshafts. The exhaust camshafts are well proven now but the intake cams were developed specifically to match the pistons.

longassname · #84 01-31-2009, 06:26 PM

I have new cores on the way to get ground to replace the cams UPS lost.

longassname · #85 02-04-2009, 03:56 PM

The cores came this evening and are heading to the grinder tomorrow.

Sov13t · #86 02-04-2009, 04:03 PM

Are those the Cometic HGs that you are using?

everything looks great.

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longassname · #87 02-04-2009, 04:42 PM

thanks,
no i use oe overhaul gasket and seal sets

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Originally Posted by Sov13t

Are those the Cometic HGs that you are using?

everything looks great.

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longassname · #88 02-26-2009, 09:59 AM

Hey, what do you know? The replacement camshafts have arrived. Now i can button this engine up this weekend.

longassname · #89 02-26-2009, 10:04 AM

I think I may drop the engines from my offerings. It always seems to take forever to get everything to my satisfaction and the parts end up taking too much of my shop space up for too long

longassname · #90 03-04-2009, 05:54 PM

here are the cams before they went in

The short cylinder head studs ARP has in stock are still a little bit long so I had to grind the nose of front studs so that they would go in deep enough to leave clearance for the cam gears. I did this on a coolant fed tool grinder.

I like to drop the cams in with assembly lube without the lash adjusters in so I can rotate them and make sure I haven't missed any burs on any thrust surfaces and the gears clear the studs etc.

The longblock is done now and I've hung a lot of the external parts that came with the core on it so they can go with it in the crate.