Machine Shop

Here's some before and after pics of a pair of cast iron V6 cylinder heads. The heads are a 3.0 liter off of a Ford Ranger Edge. The engine overheated so the heads came in for a complete valve job and surface which includes magnafluxing for cracks and pressure testing for leaks. One of the [...]

Here's some Engine Porn!! The first pic is an all aluminum SME V8 engine for a Top Sportsman dragster. The engine utilizes a centrifugal blower that mounts down low in front of the engine and driven off the crankshaft. It is reported to produce 3500 horsepower. The second pic is a twin turbo GM Chevy [...]

Here's some before and after pics of some Suzuki GSXR motorcycle engine cases. The cases came in with a broken tap that had to be removed before reparing the threads. After we got the tap removed and the threads repaired we bored the cases for oversize cylinder jugs and then surfaced the base gasket area [...]

Here's some pics of a 5.9 liter 6BT twelve valve Cummins diesel engine we're machining. This engine is getting the works as far as machine work is concerned for a moderately high horsepower build. Our customer is building this engine to put into his late model Ford truck to replace the 6.4 liter Powerstroke diesel [...]

Here's a pic of a crankshaft and some cylinder heads we have done some machining to. The crankshaft is a 3.5 liter V6 Chrysler that we had to grind and polish. The rod and main journals were scratched and worn bad enough that a polish only wouldn't clean them up so we ground it .020/.010. [...]

This is a 60-Series Detroit inline six cylinder diesel engine cylinder head. The engine is getting an in-frame rebuild so the head was brought into us to get checked out and freshened up if necessary. We did a magnaflux and pressure test and no cracks or leaks were detected. The only major thing we found [...]

Here's some pics of a pair of 2.5 liter Subaru cylinder heads that came in for a valve job and surface. The engine is in an Outback Impreza that suffered head gasket failure due to an overheating issue. The cylinder heads were already a few thousandths below the minimum thickness so we sourced a set [...]

Here's some pics of a big block Chevy stroker engine build during the shortblock assembly process. Some of the parts in the shortblock include an Eagle forged stroker crankshaft, Eagle 5140 forged steel connecting rods, King rod & main bearings, Durabond Teflon coated cam bearings, Competition Cams camshaft, a heavy duty double roller Cloyes timing [...]

Here's some pics of a small block Ford as well as a small block Chevy we're doing some machine work to. The Ford block came in with some KB hypereutectic pistons so we bored & honed the cylinders accordingly. The small block Chevy is in for all necessary machine work as it will be battling [...]

Here's some before and after pics of a couple of aluminum cylinder heads that we cleaned and surfaced. The four cylinder head is off of a Toyota Tacoma and it is a 2.7 liter 3RZFE. The six cylinder head is a 3.0 Toyota 2JZGE that is out of a Lexus GS300. We could have gotten [...]