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Steve, I appreciate you giving us the costs on the main studs for example, $82.00 each and there are 10 of them!!! I think the splayed main studs would be a little cheaper?
Dude that's nothing, in the lycoming world the rod bolts are $75 each.
Steve do you sleep?
I use to work for a machine company and we machined caterpillar parts. I worked on a machine with a 120 foot table. It took a week and a half to machine 1 part and that's running 3 shifts. We also machined diesel motors for trains from scratch. We put a steel blank block of steel and when we we're done it was a train block. We machined stuff for kabota the huge back ho arms and all the bogie wheels for kabota. We machined all the bogie wheels for caterpillar and all the huge steel train arms and we machined all the train wheels and also machined stuff for the really huge earth movers. We had a huge paint shop where we painted everything caterpillar yellow and black train wheel and black bogie wheels. I was a welder also and we would weld the huge water pumps for caterpillar and all the train guide arms that the wheels went on for the trains. We worked 14hr days 12 hours on saturday and 8 hours on sunday. The only days off we got was major holidays or vacation days. The shop is called K M machine in cassopolis michigan. Tom bailey has problably heard of them.
Sense the studs go so far down , dose it have any effect on the mains or you so much clearance it doesn’t matter?
I'd be wearing safety glasses around a machine that's cutting chips. Just me I guess.
Can I come and see your shop Steve.
You guys not being able to just bolt things together really does make your buisness above an beyond the next really awesome and appriciate all the knowledge and expertise experiance thank you
The ron popiel showtime rotisserie! Bro, 90s memories. Idea. SMXL. V10!
Steve you are the top dog when it comes to Engine's!
I can only imagine how much those machines cost!!
hey Steve,ever thought about filling the water jackets on an smx and making a nitromethane only engine?
A person finds out pretty quick billet just means solid and not necessarily stress free.
I never noticed the valve relief in the liners until this video. That’s a pretty size relief. Impressive that there is no distortion in the cylinders either. That’s pretty much unheard of.
i feel like im watching a 90s porn with that music playing
Really good quality control
That you successfully run ONE SMX motor, at the level you do in The Wagon is phenominal.
The fact you can add Bailey's 2.0, the 3-4 cars you showed at Sick Week & then cap it off w/ the King of Destruction & Dumb Chit Chaos, Cleetus running 1, very successfully, in Mullet is a tribute to your engine design & building genius.
It's a world of racing engine development I never dreamed of in the '60's, '70's & '80s, when I was soaking up all I could from my personal mentor, my long distant heros Duntov, Jenkins, Yunick & others, while crudely, (in comparison to your craft), building & racing SBC's.
I am in awe, & sincerely wish I was 40 yrs younger…
GeoD
BTW,
I'd sure like to see a 'nickel lecture' on that bad azz flycutter.
The Ronnco 5000, set it, and forget it!
This is why billet blocks break records…These problems equal time.. Time equals money spent by the producer..These cost must be included in the block price otherwise crazy blocks like this won’t exist
Hey Steve what's with the notch/relief in top of the bores ya can see on the hone machine ?
Ever afraid those little cap allen screws are gonna come loose in someones motor Steve?
Sleeve material, is that too much secret or? I love the "cone fit" idea never seen that before.
This is BAD news.
Nice machining just love watching.
Why issues with the smx? I thought that was I tryd an true/production motor so to speak???
When I worked on a fuel car the main studs were soooo temperamental. Couldn't touch them when installing, once installed we put a wax on them to avoid rusting
(scratches head) Are there any coolant passages in this thing? I thought I might have seen some, but I am uncertain of it.
Would you ever consider doing an inline four cylinder?