If I lay around any longer I’ll get lazy. Well I enjoyed my time off but 1.5 days is enough. The valves didn’t get here for the heads I was working on so I grabbed a Victor340 to do for a Keystone Raceway Park racer.
That’s enough time off
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How do you decide where to scribe the lines? With the intake manifold gasket? Since there's slop in the bolt holes, how do you decide "where" is correct?
I use the Edelbrock gasket that I always post up and wheel studs. I force them to catch a thread into the intake. There is zero slop in either the gasket or intake.
I’ll add I couldn’t do this with the sloppy egg shaped holes on the TrickFlow intake. Way to much guesswork their without have the engine in front of you.
Well I either overheated my Foredom grinder for the first time, need the brushes changed or cleaned up, or possibly have a cable going because she’s slowing down. Lol. I got way more done than I ever expected today. Plenum is probably 80% roughed in.
TXOval
340 stroked to 416
Can I ask how you keep your carbide bits clean? I just started working on a Victor340 intake I bought.
73smallblock
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Looking good!
I dip them in transmission fluid. I used to mix in WD40 but the price jumped up bigtime on the gallon container. I have a bunch of Harbor Freight money I may look into buying another gallon. I get zero buildup with transmission fluid but the WD40 helps cool them better when I mix some in.
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Newbomb Turk
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Sometimes I use candle wax. If I’m just going in to do some final shaping with a burr then I use the wax because it cleans up easier.
Thanks for that. You don't have to share all your secrets but I appreciate it.
As you have probably noticed by now I don’t keep a lot of secrets. I do have a few things I’m tight lipped about
Tight lipped. I knew a girl like that a LONG time ago.
TXOval
340 stroked to 416
Way more than every 15 minutes but nothing is timed. Grind, dip, grind, dip, blast the music. The only time I wear ear protection is during intake manifold porting. They get a little noisy for even my ears.
TXOval
340 stroked to 416
Thank you, agree on hearing protection!
Well I had a couple nice visits from my son and another Mopar racer stopped in for a very nice visit so I didn’t get to finish Pats intake till today. It still needs a wash job and a quick inspection but it’s ready for pickup. I’ll be starting on a new set of Speedmaster heads probably tomorrow and hope to get them tubbed and start roughing in work.
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