Re: Ray Allen versus Jack Werst '1970 SS/EA Showdown'
I did most everything at Crow's for over 10 years.......
Hot tank loader and unloader and rinser...Just rinsed the parts off in the driveway with a pressure hose and hot water from a coil that ran thru the hot tank....Brown water ran downhill...Not to cool in todays world.....can you say DEP or EPA
Glass beader.....Did every cylinder head unitll it was spotless.....
I did most of the headwork.....everything but the VJ on race car stuff( Bill did them all), and tons of VJ's on roadcar stuff.....
I CC'ed and milled all the heads including everything for T/K's....That included some LS-6 SS heads.....
I bored blocks on a table we had and used a Kwik Way FN bar......Counterboring was a PITA and I f'ed up a block or two be retracting the bar in the wrong position......Actually happened once when I went to answer the phone and I think it was Ralph....Hit retract and never rotated the bar to the right spot......It was MY BLOCK and it put a nasty stripe in it but I ran it anyway..Hey is was just a 454 for S/G and brackets......
I ran the Storm Vulcan 85-B Block Master........Often had the mill running and was boring a block at the same time.....
Did pistons......rods by the ton.....Assembled almost all the heads and the list goes on and on........
We had a Go-Power Dyno....and a Dyno session usually was very eventfull.....
Those dynos were far from a modern day unit and it was time consuming and often we had "issues" develop during the testing.....
We did dyno quite few engines.......and at one time the current head of Toyota Racing in America......Lee White......used our dyno to test the engines he built for the team he managed locally.... A 924 Turbo Porsche Trans Am Team......Pretty wild little engines....Well over 500hp at about 130 cubes and the sound was deafening if you were anywhwere near the dyno when he tortured it....
I loved my days in that machine shop for the most part.........It's a shame so many small shops shut down......
I could go on and on about that but lets just say times change.....
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Rich Biebel
S/C 1479
Stock 147R
Last edited by Rich Biebel; 09-02-2011 at 04:27 PM.
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