I have a decent investment in small block stuff. I am hopeful with the latest Ritter block, so don't ever anticipate a change. This old dinosaur will do everything I need it to, and not running a Gen 3 Hemi actually makes it unique. Now if an iron race tall deck Gen 3 block ever became available...




That may be coming once I enclose and air condition the other side of the shop...some day.



6061-T6 for everything except the tensioner assembly and idler pulley standoffs. Those are steel.

Just ............WOW!

Took a while to find a shop willing to make these parts. I shopped it to several good shops, and all but one passed. Found a good shop in Michigan willing to do it and this is what has been made so far. Waiting on a few more pieces before everything comes back to me, then off to anodize.

Nice machine work,
What machine shop did you send it too?

I can see why that part is so pricey.. that started as a THICK piece... very nice

Thanks,

Michigan Machine Worx in Lapeer

Thanks,

Yep, 1-1/2" thick. Needed that much to be able to enclose the timing belt. It's pocket milled front and back. SW shows about 20 lbs. I'm good with that for an accessory drive bracket/motor mounts/and water pump back plate/timing belt cover.

Inverta bolt

Well, there's something we've never seen on ebay!

Amazing stuff.

I'm crazy enough to make something like that. There are a couple tricky parts there for me to machine, but my machine is capable of machining that.....

I was shocked that shops simply said, "nope, not interested". I provided the SW native files so tool paths would be easy to do. Just need a big Z axis for the water pump back plate...or a 5 axis/horizontal bore.

I see no 5 axis machining requirement for that part, Am I missing something??

You are correct. Tall Z axis or horizontal bore.

My mill is a bed mill so I think it would of fit fine. I don't do it for a living - just to play. I can understand why the pros would not have interest.

Not anywhere on your scale - which is very impressive, but this is an adapter I made to fit regular 440 M/T Valve Covers on a B1 head. It was a real pain to engineer, but came out real good.

Impressive work Craig, an admirable piece of work. I only wish I had the time for constrcting something like that.

VEry niCE

Was it ever pondered to do a machineable wax mockup as a trial first?

I would have a little tense until its it in place and installed.

Just finished the last piece:

You mean like 3D printing the parts and CNC routering a wood template?......

very cool project. nice work.

Thanks guys, few more: (yes I am excited, have a huge amount of time and money in this!)