Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

Much thanks for the return!

NO, What ever surface is spec for your rings. Gas ports are designed to hold the rings to the cylinder wall better. To make a long winded answer short. Ollie I think Elmar nailed it! Ask your ring mfg. what he wants as far as finish, then ask your hone mfg what to use to get there and have your hon...

Trying to qualify your surface finish with a picture is about as reliable as deciding which woman is a good match from checking their asses on a barstool,,,, Might look great,, until she turns around & says something,,,, Yeah,, I know they start looking better & making more sense at closing...

Does anyone want to comment on why this school is so expensive and if there are other schools that offer similar courses that are of equal or better value. Have employee's from both SAM and UNOH. They both went to school and both came in and started at the bottom. They have both took what they lear...

SMITHBERGRACING wrote:This PBM? http://www.pbmperformance.com/index.php
I will give them a ring on that package deal.

If you are in the Midwest give Steve Bauer a call at Sunnen and he will dial you in on the correct Sunnen part numbers. Smart guy on Sunnen tooling. FC

I've striped down my engine to have the lifter bores bushed, it's had about 200 street miles and 30 1/4 mile passes. While cleaning and inspecting everything with the intention of simply reassambling with the same bearings, rings and so on, I noticed something peculiar. Now the question: some of th...

i wonder how much weight can be saved by going to a shorter deck height. its something Ive been kicking around with my own combo. BBC, 4.375 stroke, 4.600 bore, 6.700 rods, 10.182 deck now with +.400 raised cam, pin bores are already into the oil ring etc., 12 degree heads with a tunnel ram and two...

Deck clearance for deal squish/quench is generally accepted to be in the 0.038" to 0.042" range. Purchasing new pistons will allow you to get the correct compression ratio, and the correct compression distance, so that you remove the need for expensive odd thickness gaskets, as well as th...

Hi gents, i have a manifold that has been ported to suit the heads but the gasket face on one side is un even. Its like the machinist had it perfect for one side then changed sides and one side has about 15 thou gap on the top edge. Besides, remachining, would any of you try someting like devcon or...

I have talked to other engine builders who have tried the gapless rings, and NO ONE has ever seen a gain in HP, top or second ring. I do use the Total Seal conventional type rings that I have back cut to reduce the tention even more with great success. I do not think they hurt the HP, but they do n...

I use Total Seal rings all the time, but I never use the gapless type in anything I build. I dont know of any engine builder who does either. JOE SHERMAN RACING Joe nailed it. We have request from time to time for the gapless but never use them. We did quite a bit of testing years ago at customer r...

fastvette wrote:Because it fits. With there short decks I don't think they have alot of choice.

Good reply. Light piston with the correct ring placement and whatever rod length in between.

Greetings. I would like some assistance to convert a champion spark plug RC12YC. I would like to go 1 range colder. I have looked at some online cross reference charts, but did not have satisfactory results. Motor: SBC 383, edelbrock performer RPM heads. 11.8:1 compression. Thanks! Go to the Yellow...

Funny Dennis is not selling this kit to replace a cnc machine,BHJ fixture nor to correct lifter location and the points keep coming up that that is what the kit is actually for. Its not Dennis to my knowledge designed this kit 20 odd years ago because he needed to have the lifters bushed in his own...

I am the first to tell people, when they ask, that my tooling will not correct lifter bore location, by using it as a self piloting reamer. Your tools look handy for a salvage job. I give you credit for putting it all together. What worries me is the stack up of errors. With two steps of using a se...