Weber racing shortblocks

[psycho6cyl]

I was thinking about purchasing a weber racing short block. Any reviews with them? I was also tossing arpund the idea of sending them.rest of.my motors.parts and let them build.it. just curoius whats the consensus is.on.them...

 

[earlbrown]

Why not save some money and build it yourself? Sounds like a great excuse to buy a bunch of really cool precision measuring tools to me!

 

[psycho6cyl]

Ive thought about that too. I guess im.more scared of ruining it. Not knowing the clearences and I guess all the "tricks" that there are w these motors kinds of make me think 2xs about it..

 

[earlbrown]

There really isn't a lot of 'tricks' with building these engines. The only difference is pretty much 'swag'. ... A SBC will let you get away with mistakes much more than a turbo Buick. You've got your oil pump covered, a mic set and a bore gauge will allow you to check all the vital clearances during assembly... The trick is to STOP when something is out of whack and not ignore it.

Plus you get all the extra toys and the satisfaction of doing it yourself.

 

[psycho6cyl]

The real nuttty part abput it is the motors fine. It runs great etc. Im just worried abusing it ill have no.choice but to rebuild. I have to.pull it to.do.misc stuff and if any thing looks outta wack bearings etc ill see what my options are then.. as usual thx for.advice

 

[earlbrown]

In that case get a set of feeler gauges, a good set of mics from 1 to 4", and a cheap bore gauge from Shars. Take your stuff apart and start playing with the new toys. When you get the engine built send me a percentage of the thousands you just saved!! lol

-OOOORRRR-


With the money you saved from doing it yourself, go roller instead of flat tappet that way you won't have to do it twice.

 

[Ttype6]

I was thinking about purchasing a weber racing short block. Any reviews with them? I was also tossing arpund the idea of sending them.rest of.my motors.parts and let them build.it. just curoius whats the consensus is.on.them...

You can't go wrong with them. They are one of the best places to get your reciprocating assembly balanced.

 

[turbojoe1]

In that case get a set of feeler gauges, a good set of mics from 1 to 4", and a cheap bore gauge from Shars. Take your stuff apart and start playing with the new toys. When you get the engine built send me a percentage of the thousands you just saved!! lol

-OOOORRRR-


With the money you saved from doing it yourself, go roller instead of flat tappet that way you won't have to do it twice.

Sounds legit

 

[psycho6cyl]

Earl.got the roller ordered already. Thats what has me thinking im putting a lot of good.money into it. And dont wanna cheap out using a stock bottom.end....

Thats what I was thinking ttype6. Thx

 

[earlbrown]

Sounds like you're almost there.

What kind of engine building tools to you already have?

 

[psycho6cyl]

Nothing really cept a torque wrench. I was juat planning to.do.cam lifters heads rockers. I wpuldnt mind.buying tools.needed to do it myself. I am.fairly mechanical but I have to find a machinist around me to test block balance it... etc

 

[earlbrown]

Get a good name brand set of Mics and a Shars bore gauge. My Shars units are just as accurate and repetable as the Mitutoyo units at my machine shop. As long as you start with good mics you're cool and the gang.

You'd be amazed how much you use that stuff once you have them (hell, I keep a set of Mitutoyo calipers and Starret mics in my living room). Plus, once you have them, you have them

 

[psycho6cyl]

Whats a good name for mics?

 

[1952ray]

Starrett or Brown & Sharpe

 

[chriss4655]

Weber's all the way !!! have purchased most of my motor parts from them, They are great people all the way!!

 

[earlbrown]

^^What Ray said. I've got a set of Starretts in the for sale section if you want to take a look. That's the one place you don't want to scrimp.

There is a 'trick' to buying precision tooling that actually works in your favor. 9 times out of 10 you're better off buying old name brand stuff than new. The price is better and the tooling was made when companies didn't have to compete with China.

Plus, those tools have soul. You never know what they built in the past.

 

[hiboom]

I was thinking about purchasing a weber racing short block. Any reviews with them? I was also tossing arpund the idea of sending them.rest of.my motors.parts and let them build.it. just curoius whats the consensus is.on.them...

here's my take on the whole engine situation,(what I've seen and experienced in the last 40 years) If you have the mechanic ability to remove the engine and perform repairs on your car there is no reason why you couldn't do it yourself. It all comes down to the machine shops work machining the block and crank to correct tolerances to begin with.If your a little reluctant to assemble the short block have the machine shop do it and proceed from there.what I'm trying to say is no matter who does the engine the correct priming,break in and ect. will be your responsibility (or who ever is doing it) I've read time after time on here were a new engine rebuild has gone wrong.Even If i paid for a new short block I would take it apart and recheck the clearances just to make sure there is no discrepancies easier to find out before then after.having someone else do it is a big chunk of change to me i could never afford that kind of bill,but if you have those deep pockets go for it. I don't have the luxury of other people working on my car for me.If I was paying that much money I'd want it assembled in the car running when I got the engine(car) back with a writing guarantee there is usually no guarantee on racing parts just something to think about ! I'd say Weber is as good as any It seems when you send stuff off like that it takes a long time to get the work done and have seen on here members cars being down a year at a time which would suck to me.Unless weber is local to you I'd price around a little and some really good engines come up in the forsale section here from time to time. Of course you have to have the garage space and tools to do it.

 

[wmerrell]

Purchased a short block from Weber.
Had them build the rest of the engine.
It was expensive.
An example is they charged $100 to paint the block.
The cost to rebuild the heads were almost the cost of a new set of Champion irons.
The oil pan gasket leaked so bad the speed shop would not dyno the engine until the leak was fixed.
Weber response is that the oil pan was bad.
They sold me the oil pan and they installed it during the engine build.
I wouldn't use them again.
But that is just me.

 

[Spooln1]

I've got a Weber built motor. Bought the car with it that way. It runs strong and have had no issues so far. I've heard some negative things on Weber over the last couple years but mine is still together.

 

[psycho6cyl]

Purchased a short block from Weber.
Had them build the rest of the engine.
It was expensive.
An example is they charged $100 to paint the block.
The cost to rebuild the heads were almost the cost of a new set of Champion irons.
The oil pan gasket leaked so bad the speed shop would not dyno the engine until the leak was fixed.
Weber response is that the oil pan was bad.
They sold me the oil pan and they installed it during the engine build.
I wouldn't use them again.
But that is just me.

ohh wows thats crazy.. thx for the info...