Stock Stroke 340 Build with NC Engine Builder

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A couple things I had meant to mention. The block I delivered had been hot tanked, magged, honed, and new freeze plugs installed by the local shop. I was aware that the hone was not what I was after, but Shawn found something else significant. After doing the major machine work on the block, he popped all the plugs to clean it out. There were two plugs that the local shop here never pulled that were full of grit and crap behind them. I think it was the one under the oil pressure sensor port and pipe plug on the front near the cam. His thoroughness probably saved the engine from an early demise or at least some significant bearing damage down the road.

Another example of that was with the brand new Comp solid lifters I provided. I had inspected a couple of them with a straight edge when they arrived way back when, but hadn't yet put an indicator on them I could see a little light on the edge and put them away. Shawn mocked up my SFT cam in the block with the lifters and saw that they weren't spinning correctly. He went through and re-ground the lifters and everything works now as they should. This is something that he and I had discussed early on that might be required, and is another reason I chose to work with him. Excellent attention to detail and he doesn't leave anything to chance.
 

I'm an engineer and very visual person by nature, so I had to compile the dyno data into chart form and post it. Helps to illustrate how flat and wide the power band is. Which is exactly my biggest goal with this build. Not sure how I got so lucky but that second hand cam seems to be the ticket with these heads that Shawn tickled. I realistically don't think it would have peaked too much higher but it also doesn't look like it was about to fall off a cliff either.

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gzig5 said:
A couple things I had meant to mention. The block I delivered had been hot tanked, magged, honed, and new freeze plugs installed by the local shop. I was aware that the hone was not what I was after, but Shawn found something else significant. After doing the major machine work on the block, he popped all the plugs to clean it out. There were two plugs that the local shop here never pulled that were full of grit and crap behind them. I think it was the one under the oil pressure sensor port and pipe plug on the front near the cam. His thoroughness probably saved the engine from an early demise or at least some significant bearing damage down the road.

Another example of that was with the brand new Comp solid lifters I provided. I had inspected a couple of them with a straight edge when they arrived way back when, but hadn't yet put an indicator on them I could see a little light on the edge and put them away. Shawn mocked up my SFT cam in the block with the lifters and saw that they weren't spinning correctly. He went through and re-ground the lifters and everything works now as they should. This is something that he and I had discussed early on that might be required, and is another reason I chose to work with him. Excellent attention to detail and he doesn't leave anything to chance.
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Yeah, sometimes the machine shop is just trying to make a buck and not paying attention to the small details like that. We took a junk to us flywheel that runs a 7” tilton clutch to a machine shop to have them surface it, as a test to see what kind of work he puts out. Well he was not paying and cut into the outer locating ring. I went and picked it up, he did not say a word about it, I saw it and give him his 100 bucks, but it was the last work dude was getting from us. What would happen when you give an untested shop a head that’s 8,000 for a surface and he messes it up?
 
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