302 Chevrolet Engine Build

[Rich Biebel]

I did block and head machine work for years. Milled blocks square on a Storm Vulcan 85B and used a Kwik Way FN boring bar directly on the block decks. That was pretty common going back many years before better equipment and fixturing came along. I counterbored the bottom of any blocks that had webbing that would interfere with honing stones. I offset the boring bar and used it to machine the web back from the cylinder bore at the bottom. Milling stock blocks I often found them twisted side to side. Right front up a little, left front down a little and opposite at the rear of the block. I would be happy as a pig in you know what if I had those machines and spent all day everyday doing that work as I did 30 years ago. Milled and bore blocks at the same time. Radio playing and smokin a cig . Lol Throw in some heads and rods and just about everything else done in an engine shop. The work I loved to do most. Machine and build engines.