Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

bobqzzi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:16 pm Still have this. Would very much like to sell it. Make an offer

I am quite motivated to get this out of my garage

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Still have this. Would very much like to sell it. Make an offer

Motivated to sell this. Feel free to make an offer

Still have this. It is gas fired.

Correction- it has less than 2 hours on it- I have never run it.

I bought this parts washer back in 2008 for my engine building business.It has less than 2 hours on it and those were as a demo machine at the factory. I never hooked it up and it has been sitting my garage for 10 years- still less that 10 hours on it. Really need the space so I'd like to sell it. I...

I am working on a friends 5-valve turbo Beetle cylinder head and he needs new exhaust guides installed. Does anyone have any experience with these heads? The valve guides (bronze) do not have a shoulder/lip (ala motorcycles) to keep the guide from moving down into the valve pocket area. In other wo...

Consider: You can't run the same A/F at 14.7psi as N/A You don't need any boost to run a truck down the highway at 70mph Going up hills where your boost vs rpm scenario comes into play is generally a small part of the drive cycle. Why not just gear the N/A one long? There is a gain to be had using l...

Dave Koehler wrote:These type of blocks have flanged sleeves.
Remove sleeve, deck block to whatever, machine sleeve to height required, reinstall, hone, collect money.

I see, thank you for explaining.

These are dry sleeves, correct? Does pressing them in and out not affect the interference fit?

If you are sure of your measurement run it Most are higher than that & need to be set & then cut "Of course you guys are aware that aluminum grows 2 x's steel and a ( I do not know your block ) 9 '' SBC grows .009 thou at temperature" :)and as Dave Koehler said they sit proud, be ...

I would rate the original set-up as stronger and less likely to fail than the one you made.

Is it normal that the sleeves stick above the deck?

Yep, like to see how the "purdy" boys fair in a good ole boys car. The myth that driving a race car is for tough guys was debunked for me when teen age girls started driving fuel cars. I used to do some work in Hartmans shop when Rhonda first started driving, a few months previous she was...

Can't you just put a rev limiter on it? Pick the part of the curve that peaks where you want it, and make that the top end.