Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

I agree completely.
GM reinventing the wheel

I was imagining a forklift.
Is there emissions testing on forklifts? I don't think so.
Or, I hope not
But any way, I probably would not recommend that swap. It's not that hard to fix an isuzu with the right connections.

But one thing that does bother me is people don't understand how many different engines there are in the world. There is no way even with a full lifetime that one could know all the fine details of every cylinder head that currently exists. And they are all a little different, tho there are a lot of...

If you want to port old heads you probably need an old head guy.
This could be a good place to find that connection.
Porting can take an hour or week depending on what you want done to what.
I'm still unclear what the job is.

Customer brought in a 5 cylinder atlas engine and it appears........... to be an aluminum block with flanged iron cylinder sleeves. Really? I thought that concept was dead a generation ago. As far as i know, you design an engine this way and it works for a time.....but eventually the sleeves move ar...

Thanks, I'll look into that

Exactly

The aluminum head expands more than the fastener with heat.
It gets tighter when hot.
Just because the low class 8.8 will hold at room temp does not mean it's good enough.
Clamping load bolt VS nut should be similar unless the head of the bolt or nut is much different size.

Shop has been around since 60 years and in that time has collected a LOT of old catalogs.
Maybe 200 cubic feet worth
Sealed power, perfect circle, manley, clevite, FM, moog, pioneer, ect.
I'm afraid most of then are headed to the landfill

Is there anybody who scans and digitizes this old stuff?

Yeah, best to use hardened keys or something like that.
But DO buy the full set of female square sockets.
MANY uses
Put a KEY or square thread extractor in them and it's stronger than a solid tool, and can also drive taps

jeez
you cant measure a square...
try 5/16
I like to use square thread extractors

snap on sells all sizes of square drive, down to 32nds

Wait....feeler gauge really!

My understanding is the copper in the killer bee seats does not have much better cooling, rather it fills the porosity in the seat so that they don't shrink and fall out over time. I thought the same thing when they came out, that they might cool better, but at least as far as I know they don't actu...

Yeah, the carbon may not adhere well, if just run a short time and then stored. Looks like a snowblower, or something like that. Some of the seasonal use engines had extra clearance built in so they don't get stuck when the carbon falls off, LOL There is chemistry going on here, carbon can absorb wa...

I don't know, I mean, that's expensive cut a cam from a solid bar of steel. I'd think you would also have the budget to have somebody figure it out for you, if you don't know. No point having a cam without lifters, so, I would think that would be worked out early in the planning stages of what mater...