I did the CAD, Innovation Laser & Fab did the rest.
Why the lines to the bolt holes?
Time. It takes a while to start a hole though 1/2" stainless, and by linking the holes to the outside profile they were no longer individual operations. These bolt holes are also smaller then plate thickness which goes against the square hole rule for punching or burning.
Thanks napa for boring the block to the wrong size making the pistons I gave you completely useless.
block is on the stand so that the bore is horivontal and the piston is just chillin. no rings on the piston so its not self centering
So it might burn a little oil and sound like a diesel, what’s the problem?
Are they going to pay to have this fixed? How do you fix it?
Bolt legs to bottom of block, set glass on top, enjoy your new coffee table, Napa however gets to do up Alex’s spare block so we dont have to order a new set of $1200 pistons to fix THEIR mistake
Sounds like they’re getting off easy. Can you get your money back and have them do the work for free to the new block?
eeeh, might be able to get some back for scrapping a perfectly good block, we have to see what they say.
Why did you choose Napa?
Good luck fellas.
the block they now have to clean up for us, lol
That block looks like it weighs 700lbs even though it is a v-6. There is like an inch of metal between each cylinder wall.
108 pounds for a bare block, another 50lb’s for the crank, one of the early advertisements for the SHO motor stated that the block crank and rods were good for at least 700hp. i forget exactly how they worded it though.
heres a close up of the wall between the bores, i took a bunch of pics yesterday so I would have all the info i need to draw up the headers at home.
because every time anyone asks about machine shops you get ten people saying to go to ten different shops with a bunch of people giving good and bad reviews for every shop listed. I don’t know where to go so I picked one. I am driving down there tomorrow morning to see what they will do. The only thing that would make me happy is to take the spare block I have (which has 246K and came out of THE turbo SHO) and clean it and machine it by the end of next week. Anything less is poor customer service in my eyes. If they refuse work I will be reversing the charges through my CC. I really hope it does not come to that. They have had my engine all winter. I told them I was not in a hurry to get it so I can’t fault them for taking so long. I asked to have it by the end of last month and got a call a couple days into this month. To me that was fine. I just don’t see how you fuck up that bad. that is a major mistake.
And yes this engine is really fucking heavy. when I was looking it up it weighs within a few pounds of a LT1 engine. They are known to be good for holding a lot of power reliably.
edit: I just hope that other block is straight or cracked. I know it had a leaky head gasket on cyl one. it has been over heated, has had detonation, tons of water pumped through it due to air filter placement, plenty of heat cycles. It has been through a rough life as far as engines go. At the end of the day it is just a massive lump of steel so we will see. updates tomorrow.
Take it to Oddys on Bullis next time :tup:
I took them the machined block and spare block and they said they offered to sleeve the machined block to correct the size and I said I would really prefer to have this other block machined because I don’t want a sleeved engine pushing that much power. He said he will take care of it and I should have it in a week or so. :tup: to handling a mistake quickly. Neither of us is really sure how the mistake happened. I will keep that in mind Jt
I’m glad to hear they are helping you. Tom is a good guy and I figured he would re-do the other block especially since that is the right thing to do.
Its out of the Turbo SHO, i have faith in it. its not like we ever heat soaked that entire engine bay …oh … wait …