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The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

6PKRTSE said:
I have also been doing business with Apollo Trick Titanium then Stealth Engineering now Sci-Tec almost daily since the early 90's on all of our titanium materials and racing parts needs. Always been a great company to do business with.
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The old Apollo Trick Titanium was a treasure chest with a few leftover items from the old days. There were bins with certain parts and fasteners that I was allowed to go through. They were also very accommodating and understood the tasks at hand and questions since they were used to mad scientists walking in and asking for titanium inner tube air valves.
I have pictures in the archives of the old modest plant in Troy.

As far as material, there are a lot of places in most city's that have surplus outlets that sell off (drops) or excess large pieces of aluminum and other metals.
 
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This was posted a long whiles ago, but since it was asked of me today of where were the Titanium shock plates acquired.
Well.......good old ingenuity, elbow grease. lots of hack saws and drill bits and certified welding can help things become a reality.
For various reasons, New York has lost its industrial edge and talents to the southern parts of the country, but at least I made good friends with one of the last gents with a torch.

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As far as material, there are a lot of places in most city's that have surplus outlets that sell off (drops) or excess large pieces of aluminum and other metals.
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Found a place on the east side of Houston (I'm further east) that had drops or returned items that weren't cut the right size etc. and bought lots of stock from them. Also found a machine shop that 'lost' the owner and the family just dumped all the stock metal ( mostly round stock) in a large dumpster. Spent several hours cleaning that thing out after getting permission to do so. Nothing light weight though....
 
Comparatively speaking about what has already been discussed and done throughout this whole thread, this is rather minute (as in my-noot). Nevertheless, every ounce gets bounced from the front end where it counts.

That's it for now until some larger achievements come into play in the near future.

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Here's a head scratching idea that has been pondered for a while. If a motor plate is being used in the car and there's a way to mount the motor on a dyno also using the motor plate or some other contraption, then why are these dense paper weights (circle below) hitching along for the ride?

More like iron warts, could they be contributing to the overall strength of the structural webbing of the blocks walls?

Aside from the obvious use of the motor mounts, I think all of them coincided with each other to brace or balance the block on some type of stand during time of assembly. Why? There's a corresponding flat ledge underneath (seen here) that goes across all of their surfaces. That's by design for sure.
Any block foundry witnesses here?

A guesstimate from surgically cutting off these idle bosses should more or less remove 4-5 real Lbs easy.

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dvw said:
Back in the day in S/S they fround on that removal. Dave K glued balsa wood back on the block afterwards.
Doug
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Now that is some genius deception. Balsa wood, who would have thought of that?

A long deceased friend who was a religious street racer, (Chevrolets) once installed PCV plastic tubing as a fake roll cage throughout his car to fool the track officials who just looked inside and never pulled on any of it.
It was painted black with foam roll bar padding taped up with electric tape. All of this just so that he could test with a huge N/T on the windows and get those slips and a sense of how ready the car was for the evening trials on the street.

On the street, he would have the fake roll bar removed to masquerade as a measly street car no faster than a 10.50 on a good day.
Car was actually 9.30's on motor. On the bottle was a whole other planet.
 
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