John Edwards at Costa Mesa R&D Automotive Machine Shop shows you how to perform thermal cleaning on a Small Block Chevy intake manifold using the Sunnenn TCS (thermal cleaning system).
John Edwards at Costa Mesa R&D Automotive Machine Shop shows you how to perform thermal cleaning on a Small Block Chevy intake manifold using the Sunnenn TCS (thermal cleaning system).
Using modern honing machines, surface finishes, crosshatch angles, ring materials, and coatings all combine to create a more efficient engine.
A Combination of Oil, Surface Finish & Crosshatch
If you’ve been following along in the pages of Engine Builder lately, or have spoken to anyone at Total Seal or Rottler in the last couple years, you already know the mantra of “oil is the gasket.” Microscopic surface roughness and waviness create leak paths, especially under high cylinder pressures. These peaks and valleys exist, not just on the block and head surface, but on the cylinder walls, piston rings and piston ring grooves. That’s where motor oil acts like a gasket to seal those components together.
Features include built-in blower strap mounts, throttle linkage bracket, injector bung compatible and reduced overall height and weight.
Racing design and feedback has been combined, along with Solid Works Computational Fluid Dynamics Software to produce this intake from Plazmaman.
Dayco is adding coverage to three of its product lines – serpentine belt kits, belts and hoses.
Reid’s 426 intake roller rocker arm is for “high” ratio stand set ups.
It had been more than two decades since Val Morris of Steve Morris Engines was behind the wheel of a drag car. This Chevy Malibu with a twin-supercharged 454 big block Chevy engine was her forray into drag-and-drive, and now she wants to go even faster!
Connecting rods are subject to constant stress through extreme tensile and compressive loads, each one tied to a different aspect of operation.
The balance of a rotating assembly is critical in every aspect and for every engine.
It had been 26 years since the last time Val Morris, Steve Morris’ wife, was behind the wheel of a drag car. The shop had been working on this project car named Sugar Momma, and got it done in time for Sick Week 2024. When it came time to figure out who’d drive it, Steve