Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

if you have a big enough hill, mpg is unlimited!

Everything assembled, ready for first start and I find out i forgot the plug in the rear of the SBC under the head :oops: :( Well, can only blame myself for this one... bet you wont make that mistake again. i once had tranny installed, confident i had torqued the flex plate properly, installed the ...

pull the coil wire, or power from an hei, and crank it until it builds pressure.

Dave's Slug Rules 1: My minimum on steel cranks is 1/8" between and 1/8" to 3/16" from the edge. More is better of course. Most jobs I can do 1/4" or more, depending. 1/4" on cast cranks and even that spooks me. 2: If there is enough press fit welding is not needed. 3: Weld...

a few hp, and maybe another 100rpm.

mistake...nah you just proved the oil pump works!

lots of extra crap to break!

Walter R. Malik wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 6:28 pm Something around 210/218 @.050" with about .310" lobe lift ... 110 separation will be fine.
At this point in time you will probably have to purchase from whatever company actually has a cam to sell.

id say this is likely close, as i was thinking along the lines of 212/216 on a 110.

somewhere north of 1hp!

BOOT wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:11 pm Basically there is power in pushrods, how much well...

Go ahead and lock the thread we can move on

i dont think there is power in push rods, but there is most certainly power to be lost from them.

the 2 row likely has more total surface area, and should theoretically cool better. would it be noticeable, probably not.

Not to mention, Superflow also said they were the busiest dyno service in the country with more engines dynoed then anyone else including Westech, by a big margin. So, 10,000 engines, being generous, 15 pulls each equals 150,000 pulls. vs someone who claimed they had over 500,000 pulls. That would ...

R&R Performance in Spring Lake Park MN is in a residential neighborhood and a few houses away from a church. A few years back Superflow wrote an article about their 10,000th engine being on the dyno. I'm not sure what kind of merchant ship the muffler came off of but its YUUUUGE! Not to mention...

its not 1962 anymore, ill just have the piston i want made how i spec it.

bullet has all the UD cams.