Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

I just have a curious question about the cylinder head intake entrance and why is it built up with clay the way you all do it.What is it’s purpose because I’ve never seen a intake manifold exit that looks like that.Thanks

Let’s see I might be wrong on the name and area but there is a guy I think in Havasu and the company name might be REF that does custom header for fords and cleveland he did a friend of mines headers for a 1972 mustang coupe with a cleveland and they were step headers.I’ll double check later with h...

Let’s see I might be wrong on the name and area but there is a guy I think in Havasu and the company name might be REF that does custom header for fords and cleveland he did a friend of mines headers for a 1972 mustang coupe with a cleveland and they were step headers.I’ll double check later with him.

I’ve seen sludge like that after using royal purple but not thick and not as much but this was only with 15 runs down the track.I just quit using it and it went away.

Home Depot sell a 6 inch long rectangular grinding stone that will fit across the flange and then get yourself a tube of the valve lapping compound and then run a few passes across the flange in a figure 8 type motion and then you will be able to see if the surface is flat and square.

In my experience at age now of 68 yoa people that claim that they want to drive a race type car on the street end up not really like driving on them on the street (that’s why you really don’t see to many of them driven on the street).If you really want to know just find a friend that has a car like ...

Just from personal experience I would not use H bearings on those ford 351 crankshaft they are a hard shell bearings and when something goes wrong they really tear into the crankshaft,just use the Clevite P bearings and your clearance will be determined by how the crankshaft grinder ground the crank...

Here is the procedure from Ford Performance book

It almost looks like a deep space shot from the Hubbell telescope

It’s a steel roller camshaft

I have had one of my V-6 roller cams that over the years had been bent twice and straightened once this time it was bent over .020 in one spot and .010 in another do you know if I can have this camshaft straightened again and still be able to run are should I just leave it alone.I’m not sure why it ...

I have a old superstock magazine from the nineties that had Mcandles a build of 440 engine in it that he said that the aluminum main caps were the ticket for building a big block mopar I think his was 500 cid engine but I would have to find it.

Incredible I guess everyone is doing it these new computer programs and printers can make a certified check look real.I guess instead of making it harder for crooks to steal money they have made it easier.And there ain’t nothing a cop can do about.So why rob a bank are a store when you can just prin...

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php/?photo ... 7209973624 Here’s another one all iron

https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id=10 ... 5238840422 Not sure if it shows up but here is another victim