andrew heywood
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:burnout: Very nice, gunna be fast:burnout:
Honing without a torque plate?
blackviper said:Please explain.
The motor is completely locked down on the machine. The machine has an indicator that measures pressure on the cylinder walls and they measure the progress of each cylinder constantly. We are only going 10 over.
blackviper said:Please explain.
The motor is completely locked down on the machine. The machine has an indicator that measures pressure on the cylinder walls and they measure the progress of each cylinder constantly. We are only going 10 over.
blackviper said:Please explain.
The motor is completely locked down on the machine. The machine has an indicator that measures pressure on the cylinder walls and they measure the progress of each cylinder constantly. We are only going 10 over.
Like Perk said previously, a torque plate is a piece of metal that simulates a cylinder head. Its torqued into place and the block will conform to the same shape as if the head was in place. It ensures a 100% straight cylinder wall. The machine that they are using is old technology, not that it doesnt work (so dont jump all over me) just wont be as true. This is why I was looking for a bad head earlier. So we could make a torque plate and piss around with the ports for experimental purposes. We decided to purchase a torque plate instead of buying a head, experimenting with the ports wont be necessary as they are pretty straight forward.
George,
# 1- WOW that thing is going to be awsome!!!!
#2- Your crazy!!!
#3- Will you adopt me???
blackviper said:I didn't mean to come across that way. I was just trying to educate myself and see if they were doing something wrong. Wouldn't the mass of the motor and the light pressure they're applying not allow anything to distort. They were honing it in three steps (stones).
yellowfever#154 said:They're not doing anything wrong, this will work. Theres just a chance that the rings may not contact perfectly. What they are doing and the pressures they use wont distort the block at all. The difference is that when the heads are torqued into place they may distort the block. The torque plate just simulates that the heads are torqued on when they really are not.
Engines are built all the time without torque plates and work just fine. But most high hp, high dollar engine builds use torque plates. Yellowvenom and myself have our engines at a builder right now and they are going to purchase a torque plate for only 2 engines. Or maybe the 2 of us are buying it and just dont know it .
yellowfever#154 said:They're not doing anything wrong, this will work. Theres just a chance that the rings may not contact perfectly. What they are doing and the pressures they use wont distort the block at all. The difference is that when the heads are torqued into place they may distort the block. The torque plate just simulates that the heads are torqued on when they really are not.
Engines are built all the time without torque plates and work just fine. But most high hp, high dollar engine builds use torque plates. Yellowvenom and myself have our engines at a builder right now and they are going to purchase a torque plate for only 2 engines. Or maybe the 2 of us are buying it and just dont know it .
blackviper said:Getting closer. I will be ordering this bad boy tomorrow. It's a dual pass heat exchanger with thermostatically contolled fans.