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Mitsubishi 4G52 forklift aluminum cylinder head crack repair with valve job & surfacing rebuild

This is a Mitsubishi 4G52 forklift cylinder head we performed a valve job & surface to. The 4G52 is notorious for developing cracks so we had to do some crack repair to this industrial aluminum cylinder head as well. After we got the crack fixed & repaired we pressure tested the head to [...]

2016-12-17T20:00:45+00:00December 17th, 2016|Blog, Machine Shop|

Dodge Chrysler 318 V8 Engine Block Machine Work & Cylinder Heads With Hardened Exhaust Seats Installed

This is a 318 Dodge Chrysler V8 engine we're rebuilding. In these pics the block machine work is all done & it is ready for assembly. The cylinder heads have just had the hardened exhaust seat inserts installed so they are ready to go into our Tobin-Arp seat-and-guide machine for the 3-angle valve [...]

2016-12-19T18:47:26+00:00December 17th, 2016|Machine Shop|

427 SOHC Ford Cammer Engine with Roots Style Blower & Bug Catcher

Here's a dream engine for many of us gearheads. A 427 cid (cubic inch displacement) SOHC (single overhead cam) Ford V8 engine with a roots style blower. These brutes are commonly referred to as a Cammer engine or just simply Cammers. We'll just leave this here & dream on!!        [...]

2026-04-08T20:47:53+00:00December 14th, 2016|Machine Shop|

Ford 360 FE Engine Block & Cylinder Heads Machine Work & Valve Job

It's been an FE frenzy around here lately. This is another 360 Ford FE engine block & cylinder heads that we did all the machine work to. We performed a bore & hone to the cylinders for new oversize pistons & rings, surfaced the decks square & flat, align honed the housing bore [...]

2016-12-19T18:48:02+00:00December 14th, 2016|Machine Shop|

Dart Pontiac Big Chief Aluminum Big Block Chevy Drag Race Engine Cylinder Heads Freshen

This is a set of aluminum Pontiac Big Chief cylinder heads off of a 637 cubic inch big block Chevy race engine. In these pics we have completed a multi-angle valve job as well as surface to both heads. These heads will be posted again when we get the engine all freshened up [...]

2016-12-15T04:24:28+00:00December 14th, 2016|Blog, Machine Shop|

BMW Aluminum Cylinder Head Valve Job & Surface Rebuild At Las Vegas Machine Shop

Here's some before & after pics of an aluminum inline six cylinder BMW cylinder head. It came in for a rebuild so we completely disassembled the head so we could hot tank & blast it to get it super clean inside & out. We then first performed a pressure test to make sure [...]

2016-12-17T19:45:56+00:00December 11th, 2016|Machine Shop|

24 Valve 5.9 Cummins Diesel Cylinder Head Warped & Surfacing The Deck Flat

Here's a 24 valve 5.9 liter Cummins diesel cylinder head out of a Dodge truck. The 1st pic is after a couple passes in our surfacer (milling machine). You can see the surface of the cylinder head is shiny on the ends so you can see how badly warped it was. The 2nd [...]

2016-12-17T19:46:11+00:00December 11th, 2016|Machine Shop|

Dodge Truck 5.9 B-series Cummins Diesel Engine Cylinder Block Line Bore

Here's a 5.9 B-series Cummins diesel engine block out of a 2005 Dodge truck. We installed a main girdle to it along with some ARP hardware. We then mounted it in our Sunnen line hone so we could align hone the housing bore where the main bearings install. Motor Mission Machine & Radiator [...]

2016-12-17T19:46:30+00:00December 5th, 2016|Machine Shop|

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|
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