Recent content by rickseeman

I'll take the Engines book. I'll PM my info

When you run a cast iron 426 Hemi head on nitro that's the first place it cracks.

On the engine in my avatar I sanded the flat spots first so it would be easier to shave them with a razor blade after I painted them. I started shaving after an hour of drying. (Not fully dry.) All I can think of for you to do is reblast and start over. It took all day but I'm happy with the...

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I'll take it if the fees don't kill me. I'll PM my info

Yeah

If Santa came early we need pix!

Sometimes you can find .050" retainers or maybe that was keepers?

Dwayne: Don't you think 150 on the seat sounds high? I mean, I think of a hydraulic roller taking a lot more spring and the Trick Flow .600" lift hyd roller only asks for 154 on the seat. I would have thought his cam would ask for more like a stock Street Hemi spring? Am I crazy?

Hughes knows more about cams than me but WOW, 150 on the seat. That's more than a Race Hemi. It sounds like 440 Source had them closer than your machine shop. I've removed those valve seals with Channellocks and I didn't think I hurt them but now I have a Goodson tool for that.

I'm guessing OEM mistake. Yes, it should have 6.

"Angle finder" is a free app on your Iphone.

As Doug said most of these cranks today that they call Hemi cranks are really wedge cranks. You have to have really light components to get under 2500 grams. (I think that's what an Eagle crank starts out with.) And some are lighter than that. Nothings easy about building a Hemi today.

I think the 1965 Winternationals was one day because of weather delays

I don't remember which chain I used last time but it's usually a nightmare. Superformance make a .062" gasket that would help for starters. And people always ask why it takes so long to build an engine nowadays.