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Thanks patsurf. I got interested in balancing when I built my smallblock. Similar models typically hopped around the tables when they were run at...
Here is my take. Look at the flex plate. The two cutouts make this piece out of balance to correct the imbalance that could not or was not done...
I'm putting together a 215 Buick with a 300 crank and have not been able to find an externally balanced flywheel so I picked up a Craigslist SBC...
I glued a couple sheets of 80 grit to a 1 x 2 piece of flat glass and used it to surface some 215 Buick and V8 60 heads. Then used the same piece...
I had a spare torch, so I spent an afternoon on it. I did it without de-soldering or extensive hand work and still approached the 1/2 lb weight...
I built a 1/3 scale in cast iron. [MEDIA]
I have buttons in my outside mirror base for the door latch, but then ran a small cable with a loop that is accessible from the front fender well...
And then there was the one year only aluminum head for the 300 buick. At least it fits the '61-'64 215 blocks.
I built a small English Wheel from High Desert plans to shape my Avatar but needed a larger unit to do the infill for the Ruby. This Yates scroll...
Thanks Osage. I spent a couple hours on trial runs trying to cobble together a G code program for the CNC mill but just quit and did it manually....
I narrowed a '32 Chevy dash for the Ruby and had to change the instrument cutouts so I engine turned some stainless with a Cratex abrasive stick...
I'm glad someone in Ohio saved these Dorset doors. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Since I had the manifold situated, I made a foam pattern to adapt the Holley Economizer with its spreadbore to the square bore. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Curt, it sounds like you are set. The VFD should work great. My P5-2 runs off a rotary converter but with a replacement motor doesn't have the two...
Single steering joints max out at 30 degrees. I have never needed one of the doubles. When I built the Austin I mocked up the steering column with...
[ATTACH] When I got the inkling to put the aluminum blower motor in a 1/4 scale car, I ran down one of the fiberglass outfits that made these...
I started putting together another of my Craigslist piles. This is a 1962 Buick 215 block that had been bored for new sleeves. That increased the...
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Thanks for the heads up Pav8427. That is good to know. I have not run it in this configuration and just used it to get a belt length and alignment...
This is a shot of one of my $300 piles of 215 basket cases. The red one is a cast iron 300 engine that I have not checked yet. Also there is a...
I ended up with around seven of the 215's by buying C list piles for a couple hundred dollars. I assembled one runner so far and working on...
I always thought the visible V8 was neat, so when I decided to build the 1/3 scale smallblock I went to a Hobby Shop to look it over as a possible...
Sandcrab was what they called a molder in the foundry. He scuttled backwards on the foundry floor ramming molds from the heap of conditioned sand...
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Except for the temperature required for the exhaust manifolds this link shows intake manifolds Kelly Coffield has made using the lost foam...
I run the 1/3 scale smallblock at least once a year at the Hot August Nights Swap meet. this is a scratch built model in cast iron that has been...
What Gene said. I had a 215 Craigslist engine that hadn't been properly honed and broken in that I was able to resurrect with a re-hone. The...
Is there a crossover index that goes back to 1962? I have been following some of the mishaps with hydraulic throw out bearings and would like to...
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Dave, must be that time. I found this in my metal pile inside the shop. I have had Rattlesnakes, but this turned out to be a Bullsnake. They eat...
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