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400 Small Block Chevy V8 Engine Machine Work & Rebuilding At Las Vegas Machine Shop

This is a 400 cubic inch Chevy small block V8 engine that came in for machine work & a complete rebuild. We'll get the engine all disassembled, cleaned, hot tanked, magnafluxed, measured, & inspected. This engine is out of a 1978 K5 Blazer so we're going to recommend building it with a Comp [...]

2016-12-17T19:47:00+00:00December 5th, 2016|Machine Shop|

5.9 B-Series Cummins Diesel Engine Cylinder Block Bore, Hone, & Surface at Las Vegas Machine Shop

Here's a 5.9 liter B-series Cummins diesel engine cylinder block we machined. This one is out of a Dodge truck. We bored & honed the cylinders for oversize pistons & rings and we surfaced & squared the deck of the block where the head gasket seals. Motor Mission Machine & Radiator 5435 Desert [...]

2016-12-17T19:47:27+00:00December 3rd, 2016|Machine Shop|

2-cylinder Deutz diesel air cooled cylinder head valve job & surface with crack repair

This is a two cylinder air cooled Deutz diesel cylinder head that came in for rebuilding. We performed a complete valve job & surface along with a crack repair. We had to machine out one of the intake seats so we could fix the crack. We then installed a new hardened intake seat [...]

2016-12-01T01:09:15+00:00November 30th, 2016|Machine Shop|

Chevy GM LS LQ9 6.0 liter V8 engine bore & hone for Wiseco forged stroker pistons

This is a Chevy GM LS LQ9 6.0 liter cast iron V8 engine cylinder block. We did a bore & hone to all 8 cylinders and finished them for a new set of Wiseco forged stroker pistons. We bored the cylinders with our Rottler boring bar before we finish honed the cylinders with [...]

2016-11-30T23:53:18+00:00November 30th, 2016|Machine Shop|

Toyota Engine Block Bore & Hone and Cylinder Head Hot Tank, Pressure Test, & Surface

Here's some import engine machine work. The one pic is of a Toyota MR2 cylinder block that came in for a bore & hone. Our customer supplied his own new oversize pistons & rings so we just bored the cylinders on our Rottler boring bar and then finish honed them to size in [...]

2016-11-21T00:44:09+00:00November 20th, 2016|Machine Shop|

Ford Powerstroke Diesel Engine Aluminum Intake Plenum & EGR Cooler For Cleaning & Repair In Las Vegas

Got EGR? Here's an aluminum intake plenum & EGR (exhaust gas recirculatuon) cooler off of a Ford Powerstroke diesel engine. We get these in quite often for cleaning. When they come in they are heavily carboned up internally which drastically restricts their flow. The carbon build-up is mostly due to excessive idling or [...]

2016-11-20T21:31:41+00:00November 20th, 2016|Machine Shop|

Ford 351 Cleveland Engine Block & Cylinder Heads Machining & Machine Work For Performance Engine Build

How about some Ford 351 Cleveland engines? We took in a couple of engine cylinder blocks, a set of cylinder heads & an intake manifold for a custom engine build one of our customers is working on. We will be boring & honing the cylinders, align honing the housing bore for ARP main [...]

2016-11-20T20:40:32+00:00November 20th, 2016|Machine Shop|

Flywheel Turned & Surfaced With Flywheel Grinder Surfacing Machine At Las Vegas Machine Shop

If your vehicle has a standard manual transmission then you most likely also have a flywheel. The flywheel can wear out & get grooves in it much like brake rotors & drums do if you let the lining on the clutch disc wear down to the metal. We perform all types of surfacing [...]

2016-11-19T00:41:40+00:00November 18th, 2016|Machine Shop|

Ford FE (Ford Edsel) 360 Intake Manifold Surface Surfacing & Milling

This is a Ford FE (Ford Edsel) 360 cubic inch V8 cast iron intake manifold we have mounted on our mill. We are doing a complete rebuild on the engine and we surfaced and squared the decks of the block more than normal in order to raise the compression ratio to 9.3:1. Because [...]

2016-11-18T20:50:32+00:00November 18th, 2016|Machine Shop|