As I remember Milodon aluminum 426 hemi blocks had a one piece main
cap/girdle assy like the Kirkham . They apparently worked alright .
John
> Since the main caps are bolted to a block that is all one piece, it seems
> as
> though the whole thing would have needed to be line bored anyway. Wouldn't
> you
> say? My Lotus and Nissan blocks came with similar main caps from the
> factories. Seemed pretty nice at the time.
>
> --- On Tue, 2/8/11, Larry Mayfield <drmayf@mayfco.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Larry Mayfield <drmayf@mayfco.com>
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] sorry, the link didn't come through on Kirkhams.
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 11:58 AM
>
>
> Wes, all... an interesting concept for the main bearing caps. Ut, what
> happens when you spin one bearing in teh middle of that assembly. Seems
> like
> then everything has to be line bored and the faying surfaces redone so
> that it
> all fits together correctly again. I'd rather have individual caps and a
> girdle that can be installed with preload of some kind.
>
> but whadda I know, lol...
>
> mayf
>
> On 2/8/2011 7:37 AM, Wester Potter wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbHRInu7Z5U
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