Recent content by Dan the man

You guys should do a 360 vs a 340. Build them both the same way and see which one comes out on top.

Hope you all have a good Father's Day. It's a day to be at the track or car show.

All I was saying is what I did in the past. I'm not saying that it was right.

I made a couple of spelling mistakes and your quick to judge me.

Quality work and parts cost, that's how it is. No matter what hobby you are into there's going to be some sort of investment whether it's money or time or both. I know that rebuilding a engine isn't cheap, but careful shopping for the parts can save you money. I know guys who buy all of their...

The things that you mentioned are not important for a daily driver, who's concerned about what the pistons weight or if he's cam is degreed? I've put together several engines without having those things done and they ran fine for year's. Not everyone builds a high performance engine. For the...

Have you had good luck with your HarborFreight solvent tank, does it have some sort of pump for the solvent?

What do you guys clean your engine parts with ? I've used lacquer thinner, brake fluid in the past, unfortunately my dad couldn't afford to buy a parts washer and the cleaning solution for it. I've never used gasoline or diesel fuel. I always let the parts air dry. The blocks and other parts...

And Acetone is extremely flammable

I hear that. It's ridiculous.

I've always cleaned the rings bearings before I installed them. The bores got wiped down with thinner soaked cloth baby diapers till they were clean this usually took 2-3 diapers per bore, then they got washed and put up till they were needed.

With all the talk about rings, such as ring end gap I've never heard anyone on here mentioned anything about checking the gap between the rings and the ring land, this used to be a big deal back in the day.

I've never seen new rings that were dirty.

When you mentioned that NAPA by you still did machine work. I don't know how they are now but I know that at one time they did great work at least the one that we used. As far as a quality machine shop where I live would be about 25 miles away, they do good work and are reasonable

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