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Post by sc397 on Jan 31, 2023 15:24:56 GMT -8
I just took a truck load of cylinder heads and a 360 core down to him in trade towards a pair of heads for the 426 Stroker that I am going to build. He has a nice little shop and his dyno pricing is not expensive. Tell you what, he has a lot of money invested in to his equipment and dyno. I wish I would have had everything for my Pure Stock engine so that we could have ran it. Oh well. Long 12hr trip that took me longer than that because my stupid GPS didn't recognize his address no matter what I did. I eventually had to use the GPS on my phone to get there. It was nice to feel 60 degree weather only to come back to 15 degree weather. IMG_6445 by Rick Jones, on Flickr
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Post by n2ojoe on Jan 31, 2023 15:38:41 GMT -8
I wish I would have knew you were going, he wanted to buy a small bore service block from me!
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Post by dragradialamc on Jan 31, 2023 15:53:44 GMT -8
Rut Roh........you gonna catch hell from Slaptain Awesome & co. now !!!!
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Post by acm on Jan 31, 2023 16:04:58 GMT -8
Rick, what did he have on the dyno?
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Post by sc397 on Jan 31, 2023 16:05:37 GMT -8
Sorry about that Joe. I almost asked if you had anything to go and I forgot until I was on my way.
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Post by sc397 on Jan 31, 2023 16:06:46 GMT -8
There was nothing on the dyno when I got there but he had just pulled one off and had shipped it to Texas.
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Post by n2ojoe on Jan 31, 2023 16:10:05 GMT -8
There was nothing on the dyno when I got there but had just pulled one off and had shipped it to Texas. "Someone" has been patiently waiting for that! I hope it performs well.
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Post by acm on Jan 31, 2023 16:13:10 GMT -8
He was supposed to have mine on the dyno today or tomorrow... plus side, this would be the first time he was ahead of schedule.
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Post by landbarge on Jan 31, 2023 16:29:52 GMT -8
Is that sign of progress,cause it sure feels like hell is freezing over outside.
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Post by sc397 on Jan 31, 2023 16:59:48 GMT -8
He has helped me out a couple of times in getting me new pistons and gave be a better price than Summit when no one had them. I figured I would give him a try with some race level cylinder heads. He has the equipment to do it so what the hell.
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Post by acm on Jan 31, 2023 17:08:59 GMT -8
He definitely has the right equipment and seems to be a confident machinist but fuck he's slow. He got in trouble with the pandemic and went back to painting cars for a bit and then he decided to get the dyno... I screwed up and paid him in full when he was having hard times & now he's had the motor for almost 2 years. Hope your dealings with him go better.
...he did get my heads to flow in the 360 range. Haven't seen the actual flow sheets yet though.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Jan 31, 2023 17:56:44 GMT -8
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Post by 71sc360 on Jan 31, 2023 20:28:20 GMT -8
Rick, it's time for a new GPS. The same thing happened when you came to my place. But you did have the wrong road punched into your GPS when you stopped here..
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Post by sc397 on Feb 1, 2023 4:15:14 GMT -8
You are right. It did the same thing. It was a gift from the girlfriend or I would take the 30-40 Craig to it. Time to stock the truck up with maps again.
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Post by spud on Feb 1, 2023 10:44:33 GMT -8
Rut Roh........you gonna catch hell from Slaptain Awesome & co. now !!!! Nobody really had a problem with criticism or critical thinking until recently. Hmmm.
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