Would love to get some contact info for the guy in Hudson… I assume Kevin had his heads repaired at Midwest cylinder head in Iowa…. I’ve used them in the past but unfortunately they told me they are no longer doing the cast iron welding at their facility.. I think the guys that were good at the task there all retired. I’m hoping to find another good place to get that service done, I want to fiddle with brazing some floors up on some of my own heads that don’t have holes into water jackets but I’d like to leave the major iron head repairs to people way more experienced than myself. Thanks

Still looking for a second high riser single dominator intake manifold, has to be single plane like the dove manufacturing offering from long ago.

Post for the caps I’m making is up in the private classifieds section. I’m not sure if I qualify for vendor classifieds just yet so I located it in the private section. You’ll find more details and pricing there. Have a good weekend!

I’ve got multiple pairs of these billet caps nearing completion and figured I should put the listing up sooner than later. I will offer them in pairs for position 2 and 4.

 I can sell you a cap for position 3 thrust bearing as well but it would be up to the installer/machinist/end user to machine the faces of the new cap to the block to blend them together so the bearing seats properly and results with the proper amount of thrust clearance.

 With my current shop rate, material prices, tooling prices,etc the math for this batch of caps came out to $160 per piece. Shipping/insurance is extra and varies depending on location and if you want two or three caps.

Please email me at straightlinemachine@icloud.com or direct message me on here, you can also call the shop phone at 920-822-1705 if you would like to purchase. I prefer email or DM that way I have your order info digitally and not transcribed on a note pad somewhere.  I accept Cash in person, USPS money order, certified bank checks, and personal checks but there will be a waiting period for personal checks to clear my bank before I ship you the parts. Please include your shipping address and if you want two or three caps (or more) so I can figure out a total for you with shipping and insurance included.

Thanks for the space Jay,

Cody Ladowski

Straightline Machine LLC

Chuck, CGT-C5834-023 and -040 I’ve tried advertised at 4.165 and weren’t round bore and measured kinda egg shaped in the 4.200-4.320 size range. I have some old Victor 3389 gaskets here that measure .038 thick and 4.300 bore or a 3417 Victor that measures 4.165 intake to exhaust direction and 4.220 water pump to flywheel direction, but they measure .048 thick. I really like the 3389 gasket for anything 428 bore and smaller. The last felpro race gaskets I measured were over or at .050 thick and 4.400ish bore. As always I never assume anything anymore and always measure everything at least twice. Good luck!

I’ve been fighting with finding a gasket that I like lately… last set I ordered from cometic 4.165 bore gaskets and they were measured 4.200-4.320 depending what clock position you pulled the calipers across… just a FYI. Not sure why their gaskets aren’t concentric with the list a bore size. Only thing I can surmise is they are compensating for the old iron cylinder head chambers being wider at the valve centerline/pierce point than the bore size is. Just trying to save you the disappointment of spending good money on gaskets just to not get what you want. Good luck

So the caps are being machined at Straightline Machine LLC right now. Just did a test fit of the first cap off the machine on a stock 330 MD block I got here . How much material would you guys like left in the bearing journal area? .005/.010/.015/.020? I can change the cutter comp and adjust it somewhat. I’m also wondering if I can add the reliefs for the bearing tangs for Cleveland and FE to the cap, I think they are located differently. First batch only had the tang relief for FE.