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09-27-2008, 03:10 PM
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Re: SBC cylinder wall thicknesses?
Why don't you guys just sheeve the cylinders? It's $80 a cyl & a hell of a lot stronger.
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09-27-2008, 06:39 PM
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Re: SBC cylinder wall thicknesses?
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Also beware on stock SBC blocks the sleves get dangerously close to the bolt holes and almost always crack to those bolt holes... Bowtie Blocks are no problem and will work well for sleeved down for say 305 \ 283 \ 265 ... |
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09-27-2008, 10:47 PM
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Re: SBC cylinder wall thicknesses?
Bub, I sent you PM, Tom
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09-28-2008, 01:17 PM
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Re: SBC cylinder wall thicknesses?
Thanks guys.....what about thickness of finished bores in the early 265/283 blocks? Any ideas on this and how it compares to best 350 situation? Isn't there a small-bore Bowtie block available with an unfinished bore size of about 3.7" so you can bore/hone to the desired size instead of sleeving down for the smaller displacement racers? Bub, is that sleeve/cracking problem more common in the larger or smaller bore production blocks or ALL of them? Thanks again!
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09-28-2008, 05:05 PM
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Re: SBC cylinder wall thicknesses?
Bub Pro-Motion machine here in jackson dose it for that. Thing is Ted works by himself @ his house so not much overhead...he has about a 3 week trun around most of the time. You also have to rember here in southern Ohio most people will not pay that to have a engine fixed. If they do it's just for one cyl.
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09-28-2008, 05:38 PM
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Re: SBC cylinder wall thicknesses?
Back in the mid 70s I was boring 12-15 Chevy motors a day and the wall thickness was very erratic. Large air pockets or core shift were not uncommon in a simple .030 over 350. I was getting 80 a cylinder to sleeve a block in labor only back in the 90s and I was the cheapest around, Paul.
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09-28-2008, 07:44 PM
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Re: SBC cylinder wall thicknesses?
Just love it when they spell my name right...
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