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by Mark O'Neal
Sun Apr 17, 2022 2:35 am
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Can Someone Recommend Me A Wrist Pin Hone?
Replies: 7
Views: 1451

Re: Can Someone Recommend Me A Wrist Pin Hone?

Measure twice, hone once.
by Mark O'Neal
Sun Apr 17, 2022 2:34 am
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: in line coating on piston skirts
Replies: 9
Views: 1034

Re: in line coating on piston skirts

If you are referring to Line2Line coatings. Yes it works and works well.

And if someone has a motor running .0008 piston to wall, I'd like to see the skirts after the first 30 seconds of running.
by Mark O'Neal
Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:52 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Sbc timing chain question
Replies: 11
Views: 1335

Re: Sbc timing chain question

As long as they have steel gears, I've never has an issue with any set.
by Mark O'Neal
Mon Apr 04, 2022 1:59 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Statment from Rick Roberts, regarding Speedmaster press release.
Replies: 15
Views: 2896

Re: Statment from Rick Roberts, regarding Speedmaster press release.

lance flake wrote: Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:15 pm We need more stand up people like Mr. Roberts. He probably could have gotten paid really well to let them trash his name.
Knowing how they operate, him being well paid for it seems unlikely.
by Mark O'Neal
Sun Apr 03, 2022 2:42 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: KB hypereutectic pistons
Replies: 41
Views: 4327

Re: KB hypereutectic pistons

tuneup and tuneup and tune up.

I refuse to use no gap rings in anything. We'll Top Alchy maybe.
by Mark O'Neal
Wed Mar 23, 2022 6:55 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Statment from Rick Roberts, regarding Speedmaster press release.
Replies: 15
Views: 2896

Re: Statment from Rick Roberts, regarding Speedmaster press release.

HQM383 wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 6:36 pm Speedmaster true to form again.

Emperors new clothes.
It was an awfully bold ting for them to do. And, from a legal standpoint, kind of stupid.
by Mark O'Neal
Mon Mar 21, 2022 8:52 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Wayne Brooks, of JE and Racetec fame
Replies: 8
Views: 1541

Wayne Brooks, of JE and Racetec fame

Has passed.

I feel like everyone that taught me anything in this industry is vanishing far too quickly.
by Mark O'Neal
Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:38 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Johnson hydraulic roller lifters?
Replies: 43
Views: 10988

Re: Johnson hydraulic roller lifters?

I saw some back-and-forth on an engine builders Facebook group regarding Johnson vs Johnson Hy-lift. It was hard to tell what was what but sounded like the Hi-lift may be a little sketchy. What's the deal between the two? I know the small fortune I paid for lifters are actual "Made in the USA&...
by Mark O'Neal
Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:28 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Look like Speedmaster is stepping up their game.
Replies: 31
Views: 4020

Re: Look like Speedmaster is stepping up their game.

Chris_Hamilton wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 11:34 pm Kazoom, perhaps we all we would take you a bit more seriously if you didn't post stupid, ignorant, inflammatory things in your signature. :wink:
Would you ask a cat to cease being a cat?
by Mark O'Neal
Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:25 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Look like Speedmaster is stepping up their game.
Replies: 31
Views: 4020

Re: Look like Speedmaster is stepping up their game.

wow so posting Facts to uneducated idiots here makes me a troll in the uneducated trolls eyes now? :lol: so having anything good to say is praising Everything made by white america right?.. whether its shit or not What does someone or someone's skin color have to do with anything on this site by yo...
by Mark O'Neal
Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:20 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Look like Speedmaster is stepping up their game.
Replies: 31
Views: 4020

Re: Look like Speedmaster is stepping up their game.

ChopperScott wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 11:44 am =; Don't feed the troll!

I want to make dead certain Mike makes a informed decision.
by Mark O'Neal
Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:18 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: Look like Speedmaster is stepping up their game.
Replies: 31
Views: 4020

Re: Look like Speedmaster is stepping up their game.

First....this isn't Yellowbullet, so bide your tongue. Second, I've known Peter since long before anyone here ever heard of him and your story, like most of your babble, is nonsense. Third, if Mike has a lick of sense, he'll throw you out of here today. It's not like you're a stranger to getting ba...
by Mark O'Neal
Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:07 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: EVOLUTION™HYDRAULIC ROLLER LIFTERS
Replies: 16
Views: 1929

Re: EVOLUTION™HYDRAULIC ROLLER LIFTERS

tjs44 wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 5:13 pm The lifter body looks just like the previous Shaver hyd rollers lifters.Tom

Can't get even those anymore.
by Mark O'Neal
Sat Mar 19, 2022 9:03 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: KB198 Piston Opinions
Replies: 16
Views: 950

Re: KB198 Piston Opinions

fyi drivcat.com is the corporate online catalog site for Sealed Power, moog etc it's the next best thing to having a hardcopy SP catalog (and its expanded info) ... which you can download from site. the 4032 autotec pieces look quite nice as well ... as do those 2618 racetec from same mfgr. I rate ...
by Mark O'Neal
Sat Mar 19, 2022 9:00 pm
Forum: Engine Tech
Topic: KB198 Piston Opinions
Replies: 16
Views: 950

Re: KB198 Piston Opinions

Autotec came up in another thread (your post Mark?). Do you order directly from them? And do you have any idea what their international shipping might be like? Thanks. I do buy from them, quite a lot. And no, I have no idea what their shipping is like. We drive down and pick them up.....at almost 8...