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Performance Valve Jobs Are Easy With The Right Tools And Specifications

  It is easy to do a performance three or four angle valve job, but it is very difficult to find a shop to properly do one for you. Well, I will explain to you the proper way to do a great performance valve job either using stones or pre-shaped three or four angle carbide

Around The Block: Taking The Mystery Out Of Engine Hot Spots And Head Gasket Failures

Internal combustion engines produce power when a burning mixture of air and fuel expands. These engines also become more efficient as combustion temperature increases, but to develop maximum power, the energy lost as heat should be kept as low as possible. If engine parts were made out of materials which did not expand, corrode or

Niche Market Opportunities

Opportunity is where you find it. Rebuilding passenger car and light truck engines and doing the machine work that

Rebuilding Toyota 3.0L V6 Engine

In 1988 Toyota introduced its first V6. Most of the information that follows applies to the 3.0L version used in Toyota’s truck applications. The 3.4L is still fairly new to the aftermarket at this point. 3VZ-E – 3.0L SOHC V6 – ’88-’95 The 3VZ-E was also introduced for the 1988 model year on Toyota 4×4

Training: Measuring Up The Machine Shop Talent Pool

Bet you a nickel the first person to say "good help is hard to find" was a machine shop owner. It

Cylinder Head Disassembly/Reassembly Benches

Just because you

Rebuilding The GM Quad 4

The Quad 4 had four valves per cylinder, tuned intake and exhaust manifolds, no distributor, no plug wires, lightweight rods and pistons to reduce shaking forces, and a crank with eight counterweights that was designed to reduce noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) and bearing wear. It didn’t have an A.I.R. pump or an EGR system,

What’s New In High Performance

If the Greek philosopher Socrates didn

Obd II Shop : The Sensitivity Of Obd-IISystems Will Present Significant Change For Shops

For nearly 30 years, engine rebuilders were sheltered from the dramatic changes sweeping through the automotive industry. While other shop owners and technicians scrambled to relearn almost everything they knew because of computers, engine rebuilding remained essentially the same. Now, machine shops, custom and production engine rebuilders are faced with relearning virtually everything they know.