Dumbo The Flying Elephant

[Larry Hill]

Paul I’m not trying to be evasive but that information is with Jeff Taylor Performance in Sellersburg In. Some things I prefer not to know. The reason being, if I don't know some proprietary information and for some reason it gets known it could not come from me.
On ring pull are you curious about RB or Gen 3?

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I believe all the parts are here. It’s all on me now.

[Paul Precht]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Paul I?m not trying to be evasive but that information is with Jeff Taylor Performance in Sellersburg In. Some things I prefer not to know. The reason being, if I don't know some proprietary information and for some reason it gets known it could not come from me.
On ring pull are you curious about RB or Gen 3?

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I believe all the parts are here. It?s all on me now.

Thanks for the reply Larry, both the RB and Gen 3 if you're willing to share but the RB being 3/16ths is what's in most of my builds so it's interesting to see what is working for other people as I'm a bit shy about going too light. Back in the day Hastings used the old TRW style black expanders and I could grind one end to give me the tension I wanted, I recently mixed a standard tension Speed Pro expander with Hastings rails as they had a shorter radial wall which is going in a low budget 383 for my bracket 62 Dart. I target the middle of Total Seal's specs for RK, RPK and RVK and it's a bit tricky getting there and like with oil ring tension, it's interesting to see what's working for others.

[Larry Hill]

Best I can remember for the RB is using an old fish scale that had a needle it was about 10 to 12 lbs. Once something worked I would reuse the the oil ring in the next setup. The Gen three stuff I haven?t had much success on oil control. I?m trying something different this build.

[Larry Hill]

I got to use a Buxton valve spring checker, Wow was it nice. A read out in thousands of an inch and lbs of force and a printout of each spring. Put in coil bind clearance and valve lash and it shows installed height. A really nice tool and it?s easy to use.
It?s almost 5:00 am so I better get to work.

[Frank Castros]

Early birds get the Wally.

[Larry Hill]

Taking a break. The block had its final cleaning. Cam bearings are installed. Sound track from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show " is playing, all is good! Solvent tank cleaned and refilled with fresh solvent. Supper tonight at the Fancy Farm picnic, where everything is home made and all proceeds go to the church.
Back to work

New cam turns in the bearings, another good day of racing.

[Frank Castros]

Fish fry?