The main girdles are nice, but they are a machining nightmare.
Well, that's what they pay us the "BIG BUCKS" for,.......... right!
You’re making me nervous. All I did was set it on my Bridgeport, and cut the caps down the thickness of the spacers. Hopefully it’s ready for a main home now.
Yes, some Bridgeport work was a nice start but,...........I'd be nervous if I were you!
When we did one here, we had to make a pass across the pan rails.
Yep, I would consider it mandatory!
Comes with everything you need. No machining, with full Instructions.
What is this, something from RONCO! (anybody remember them? O.K. it's a joke!) And I thought we southerners were bad for selling Yankees swamp land here in Florida!
Without covering all of the processes involved, but perhaps prepare one for what one might consider: On the FE for this stud girdle fitment one would want to establish the dimensional relationships of the five main bearing bores bore radius loops, to the main bearing cap saddles, to the main cap bolt posts in height, to the pan rail with timing cover; ideally, this both as sets each individually, and as a set of ten including the circumference of the block and timing cover pan rail needing to be square in dimension. The problem is after blueprinting out these dimensions as the block assembly is received from the O.E., not to mention issues created from service, including previous secondary machine work, so invariably...............
. ........there is machining involved. Lots of it if you want to be accurate.
And perhaps some compromises, as one is following the previous machining operation of someone else, generally of less accuracy, but none the less involved the removal of material one can't readily put back.
We have done this many times, but I still haven't seen the "BIG BUCKS" yet, as few realize what's really involved, the associated time and tooling, nor appreciate at least in what I would consider a proper fitment effort. And yea, there are or will be plenty of testimonials of: Naaaw, all you gotta do is this and that and your done, you don't need to do any of that other B.S.! But all I can say is GOOD-LUCK!
Scott.