I am looking for the post where one of the members posted his rocker stand plate he machined. It's a one piece rocker stand plate that replaces the individual rocker stands.

I thought I had saved the topic, but I can't find it.  Hopefully some one remembers the post ?

Thanks

All you negative commenting people kill me. Where were all your fine comments when Mike was going to thru the trouble of having these cams ground I am actually kinda disappointed in whats gone on.

Mike did a service for the community it ended being something people wanted for what ever reason, mine was cause it was what was used back in the day, when I was a kid, so I bought one.

So, all of this experience and knowledge on these boards and no one has offered any suggestions or recommendations to help the people who bought these cams for what will help make these cams work.

I have a little hobby engine building back ground, nothing like the big name people here on the Boards, but enough.

So I'll start:
For reference- there was posted recently about an Old School 427 Tunnel Port motor stock bore & stock stroke was just freshened up, and dynoed @ 513 hp.

I am building a 468 4.125 x 4.250, with Blairs Street Pro Ports, with a J Sidewinder Ported & Flowed by JDC with each port flowing over 385 cfm averaged out to 387.95 cfm.

The D cam is just a hair larger than the came I was going to run, with identical opening & closing exhaust specs and it has 9 deg more of int duration and about .015" more lift.

Are there better Heads & Manifolds? SURE Are there better Cams? SURE  But  the question is ? Will this cam work in this engine combo,  I think it will work pretty darn good, and be fun.

 

Checking to see if there is an interest in Jay's Vacuum Form Covers, but ones without any Breathers or Baffles what so ever. I want to be clear, there will no provisions to use any type of Breather in the covers, these will be just plain clear covers.

In my discussion with Jay, I told him I would be using a PCV on the back of my Sidewinder and a fill Tube & Breather cap on the front, so I would have a positive crankcase flow and the covers could have breathers or not, so he said he could do some and just not add breathers.

Now, Jay still intends to provide the clear covers with Breather Caps & Baffles, but not until he is able to work out a Baffle System he is happy with, and no he didn't mention a time frame for that to happen.

So, Jay said he may do a small run of these clear covers without breathers in May, and how many depends on additional interest, he said he was going to see if there was any interest in them at the FE Reunion and said it was ok if I posted about it here. As he has already stated the covers limit which rocker setups can be used with these covers, so keep that in mind.

So, I think the PCV and Fill Tube with a breather will be enough. Actually, I had found a breather cap that has a tube for a hose that I intend to run to the bottom of my air cleaner instead of having the breather cap vent to atmosphere, and even thinking on adding another PCV in line to the air cleaner ? Also, I was thing about an electric Vacuum Pump. I will be running one vacuum pump as it is for my brakes, actually a vacuum tank and a pump for my power bakes, so one more for PCV is an option.

Post interests here, I myself currently want 1 set, so count starts @ 1




 

I was researching cranks and found this Sonny Bryant FE 4.250 Stroke crank in this article.

http://hotrodenginetech.com/boosting-a-482ci-ford-sohc-cammer/

Article about the engine builder:
http://www.hotrod.com/articles/take-5-kenny-duttweiler/

The crank looks really nice.  2.75 mains & 2.100 BBC rod jrls, and fully counterweighted.

I have a set of re-sized FE rods, that have new bolts, and on the heads of the bolts it reads PBG or PDB with the P at one end and the B,G at the corners of the other end of the bolt head, anyone familiar with these bolts ?

I know nothing about these bolts, so unless some one knows anything about them, I will have to swap them out for a known quality fastener, either ARP or SPS bolts and have the big ends resized.

I am going to have to start sourcing odds and ends for this motor I am putting together, a flex plate, descent balancer, balancer spacer, oil slinger, wind age tray for a start. The crank shaft parts, I am looking to pick up first so I can send the whole assembly out for balancing.

EDIT: Orange County, CA