I am in Pasco, about 40 minutes from Oregon and just over an hour to Idaho. Any machine shops out here in the low desert that have V8 Flathead experience, knowledge and equipment? I intend on doing final assembly. Thanks!
If you don’t get somethings close here, try shooting an email to Rockets in Sunnyside . Not that far, and he’s likely to know if there’s someone in the valley to do that. Or Mr48chev in Yakima. https://www.rocketsgarage.com/contact
I don't know of any who I would say specialize in flatheads. I've been out of the loop on who does what for too long and am pretty well out of the loop on what machine shops are still in business that might be a go to. It's not that they are hard to work on as they are very easy to work on, it is having the patience to work on them and do it right. I can grind the valves and seats in a pair of small block Chevy or Ford heads in about 30 minutes after they are cleaned up. It would take a lot longer to do the valve seats on a flathead and if you don't have adjustable lifter each valve and seat have to be ground to get the right valve lash with the cam and lifters in the block. Again not a high degree of difficulty but tedious and time consuming. Plus you are going to want hard seats installed to handle the gas we have now. One of the go to guys retired a few years back and I think that even the building is gone now. If Riley at Rockets hot rod Garage doesn't know his dad either will know or know who to ask.
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