Recent content by Pablo

Thanks for the info. Make sense. One question though; How do you machine the top face of the caps while they are torqued down?

Thanks for the reply. I am not doing the machining myself, but I do all of my own blueprinting and building. I am not mounting billet caps, I have stock caps and have been carefully measuring the quality of my last align hone which turned out to be very poor to say the least. I'm seeing up to...

Are the main cap registers in the block at equal heights (or depth depending on how you want to look at it)? I am talking about the flat surface in the block that is 90 degrees to the stud/bolt axis for the main caps. The reason I am asking is to know whether or not I should expect the caps to...

Thanks for the replies guys. I ended up cleaning up the casting flash, radiusing corners, and drilling out the pressure passages to 1/2". I don't think I will drill the side feed or slot cut the pressure and feed sides. Doesn't seem worth the risk to me. I ran an HV pump setup before this and...

Going through a new front cover setting it up for my engine and decided to study the oiling situation. I generally do not think that engineers do something that requires more difficult machining for no reason, and I believe this is the case with the front cover. If you will observe, the oil...

So I spent some time on my rods, got them pretty clean: Just masked off the big end bore and piston and ran em through my blasting cabinet with Al oxide grit. Then dunked them and scrubbed with some grey scotchbrite. Took a bit of elbow grease but they came out nice. One or two got just a...

Thanks for the reply Gunz, I see what you are saying now about the .001 undersized bearing. Makes sense. I will have to do some research on the bearings to see if that is an option. I don't even remember which brand I got, I think they are King bearings but I will have to double check. That...

Thanks for the reply Gunz, Just want to be sure I understand what you are saying about the .001 oversized bearing. So, the bearing set in there is .010 oversize, so that means each half is .005 thicker than stock. So if I install a .001 oversize bearing, which is .0005 thicker on each half...

Hello Everyone, It has been years since I've been part of the Buick scene. Late 2009, the 2004r took a dump after a few short months (?) of having installed a 3.8 I built with a girdle, ported heads, 212/212 (?) flat tappet cam, etc. After the trans let go, I let the car sit for awhile bought...

You know nothing about anarchism first off. If you are going to discredit people for having principles then I guess that explains why you choose the company you keep. Second off, this isn't the freest country in the world. It's just a different set of restrictions that in sum are really hardly...

I didn't expect that the content of that video would provoke a single intelligent and rational thought in your brain, so I'm not surprised by this response.

A special message for anyone in "law enforcement". Some things for you to think about.

There's a big difference between working for people whose business strategy consists of innovation and outsmarting the competition without the help of government, and working as someone who is paid to do violence on their behalf in lieu of fair innovation and competition. You get paid to be an...

It doesn't matter to me what his mental or physical state is, I only care about damage caused to my property. You sound like the kind of person that would damage a person's property and then blame it on them for being drunk/high/whatever. No integrity. Whoever is at fault for the actual damage...

Yep I was the potato peeler. At least I can sleep with a clear conscience which I wouldn't be able to do if I was a police officer. Like I said, you have to be sick to your core to enjoy ruining lives every day. Only an anti gun lefty would conflate being heavily armed with being heavily...