Machine Shop

Here's some before & after pics of a set of 3.4 liter Chevrolet Impala aluminum V6 cylinder heads we did a repair and rebuild to. The surfaces had some heavy pitting from electrolysis water corrosion which we had to weld up before surfacing them square & flat. We also supplied a DNJ gaskets headset and [...]

This is a Caterpillar 3406B inline six cylinder diesel engine cylinder head. We thermal cleaned & blasted it before magnafluxing and pressure testing it for cracks and leaks. We then gave it a complete valve job and surface and new seals on the injector cup sleeves. Motor Mission Machine & Radiator 5435 Desert Point Dr. [...]

Here's some pics of a late model Mark V big block Chevy engine block in our Sunnen line hone machine. We are utilizing a set of ARP main studs so the housing bore needs to be honed to ensure each bore is on size as well as to make it true front-to-rear. Motor Mission Machine [...]

Here's a set of aluminum 5.7 liter LS Chevrolet cylinder heads off of a 2003 Z06 Corvette. One of the valve springs was broken so we did a complete three angle valve job and surface. We assembled the heads with eight new intake valves, 16 positive valve stem seals, and a full set of Competition [...]

Here's some pics of some Sealed Power TRW forged pistons for a 454 big block Chevy high performance engine. In the 2 pics with the clay on the pistons you can see that the clay is pretty thin at the deepest area of the intake valve releif pocket. In the other two pics you can [...]

Here's another Chevy LS engine block we bored and honed the cylinders for a set of Wiseco forged pistons. GM's LS engine is a popular choice for being transplanted into resto rods, hot rods, rat rods, and just about anything else you can think of. They are also very responsive to performance upgrades. It's because [...]

Here's some pics of a spindle hub assembly off of the front axle of a Caterpillar 16G grader. The bores were worn as well as the faces on each side of the bores. In these pics we have the spindle hub mounted in our vertical knee mill. We have welded the faces and we are [...]

This is a set of 4.0 liter aluminum V6 cylinder heads that came in off of a Ford Explorer. We blasted them clean, did a pressure test on them to make sure they weren't cracked or leaking, and then gave them a three angle valve job on our Tobin-Arp seat-and-guide machine. We then milled their [...]

Here's some pics of a 170 cubic inch inline six cylinder engine we rebuilt. The engine is out of a 1964 Ford Falcon that our customer is restoring. The engine came in and we thermal cleaned, balsted, and magnafluxed everything to make sure there weren't any cracks. The owner then took the engine block, cylinder [...]

This is a Chevrolet GM LS engine block that came in for some machining. The cylinders were at standard bore so we bored the cylinders in our Rottler boring bar for a new set of high performance Wiseco forged pistons. We then finish honed the cylinders to size in our Sunnen CK10 honing machine giving [...]