Yes Kirk very good advise : )
Lin
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2@gmail.com>wrote:
> Linda,
>
>
> One thing I would caution. Make sure you have a good well established
> person to bore the cylinders out, to do all of the machine shop work.
>
> The first engine I rebuilt was a small block Chevy for a 1966 Camaro.
>
> The machine shop I wanted to use was run by a guy who had been there for
> over 12 years building small blocks for the local dirt track. I am sure
> that I would have had good results with this guy.
>
> When I went out to get my engine done, I discovered that the guy had just
> started a two week vacation.
>
> Since I was too impatient, I used another guy in town. He offered a
> correct
> (not by numbers, but by displacement) 327 that he would do for the same
> price with my 350 core in exchange.
>
> I thought it was too good of a thing to pass up. Turns out that he bored
> the cylinders with a portable boring machine of some sort and the result
> was
> that my piston rings were never able to seat correctly.
>
> It was burning a quart for every 500 miles. My take is that the cylinders
> were not bored straight, instead they were flanged out a bit - hence why
> the
> rings would never seat.
>
> Now I am thinking that this is a redundant email cause Frank would know who
> to use for the machine shop tasks. But it was certainly a hard lesson for
> me back when I was in my early 30's.
>
> Kirk
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