EngineQuest® (EQ®), a leading supplier of stock and performance cylinder heads and engine components, has announced the winners of their 2009 PRI Show Cylinder Head and Prize Vault Giveaway promotion. The grand prize, a new set of cylinder heads, was awarded to Cathy Ewing of Ewing Auto Machine. The second and third place winners, Stan [...]
Goodson announces its release of the Diamond Valve Guide Flex-Hones®. Combines the flexibility of a Flex-Hone with the speed of a diamond. These 400 grit Flex-Hones® are made with highly friable resin bond diamond crystals for the more demanding finish requirements of hard materials. Applications include: Heat treated steel, High nickel stainless steel, Chromed or [...]
After a successful first seminar Joe Mondello and SuperFlow have again
teamed up to share today’s most advanced cylinder head porting and
flowing techniques using the industry standard SF-1020 Flowbench. “The
Legend,” Joe Mondello designed the Posi-Flow® Combustion Chamber in
1961 and has accumulated wins in almost every major form of drag, circle
track, and off shore racing nationwide. “An [...]
RHS® and Indy Cylinder Heads have recently teamed up to give Mopar performance enthusiasts the performance cast iron head they deserve. Designed as a cast iron replacement for small block LA and Magnum engine applications (318-360-415 c.i.), the RHS® Indy 360 X Cylinder Heads utilize patented RHS® Clean Cast Technology™ and feature a host of [...]
SUPERFLOW INTROS NEW TEST BENCH
A new, professional, computerized flowbench, designed for engineers who develop everything from intake tracts, exhaust media to highperformance, two-cycle and four-cycle engines is now available through SuperFlow Technologies Group.
The computer-controlled SF-1020-SB (SuperBench) — SuperFlow’s most advanced flowbench is designed for demanding engineers and professional racers. The SF-1020-SB measures and records air [...]
Text and photos by Mike Mavrigian
PROJECT FORD FE, PART 4
The oil filter base (located on the forward left side of the block) features two ports and four bolt holes. A base gasket must be used for sealing between the adapter and the block. This gasket bwas included in our Victor gasket set.The gasket will only [...]
Thank you very much. The DOHC 2.4L head in this 2001 PT Cruiser spit the No. 1 spark plug without warning, taking the threads along for the ride. We suspect this resulted from poor thread quality coupled with a relatively low spark plug torque value. It appears that cylinder pressure worked its magic on the [...]
PRO-LEVEL SPARK PLUG THREAD REPAIR MADE EASY
If you haven’t run into this problem yet, it’s very likely that you will in the near future. There seems to be a rash of spark plug thread failures in a variety of later-model aluminum heads. The most common is the 4.6L Ford head simply because some design genius [...]
All head studs were installed finger-tight.
Our taller-than-OE Crane roller lifters required the use of spacer washers between the block and lifter buckets.
The oiled roller lifters are inserted into the OE plastic lifter buckets. These register flat-to-flat, orienting the lifters properly for roller bearing operation at the lobes.
With all four lifters snapped into the lifter bucket, [...]
PISTON/ROD INSTALLATION
With the cylinder bores wiped clean with a lint-free towel, apply a light coat of engine oil to the walls. After making sure that the connecting rod and cap saddles are clean and dry, install the rod bearings to the rod and cap and coat the exposed bearing surfaces with oil (I used Royal [...]
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