How many assemble their engines
How many of you members assemble your own engines, heads or even machine/or clearance for parts install?
Fred (my racing partner,) and I, hired the boring, balancing, valve job, crank-turning, and cam bearing installation. The machine shop installed the crank. We did everything else (cut the ring end-gaps, installed ans degreed the cam, installed the pistons and oil pump/distributor.)
The machine shop set the valve spring installed height, because they had an "installed height" valve spring tester; we needed a certain amount of valve spring pressure on the seat and fully open... had no way to check that, so the machine shop was hired to do that.
So, we still felt like they didn't really "build" the engine... we actually assembled about 90-percent of it.
Hope it runs... LOL!:blob:
