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Sounds like you have been reading from the "experts" over on fakebook? :Big Laugh: -
TotalyHucked replied to the thread Chuck’s engine build thread!.Completely agree on all accounts. The parroting has gotten crazy the last few years, I was just shocked at how many people suddenly...
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Lots of armchair experts out there. I’d be willing to bet most of those people have never used a dial bore gauge and micrometers, or...
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The internet. They're wholly internet creatures parroting what they've read, heard, been told. People take great joy in being...
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It's a good enough check to see nothing is too far off. Of the dozens if not a hundred plus rebuilds over the years I've used it as a...
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I wouldn't listen to them. Millions of solid engines were built with the use of plastigage. Heck, the 350 I rebuilt with Pop back in...
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For sure. I mean, in my high school back in the day, we were all told that plastigage was perfectly fine and acceptable, and part of a...
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TotalyHucked replied to the thread Chuck’s engine build thread!.My dad, several of his friends, my friends and me have all used plastigage over the years and it's always been fine. I used to see it on...
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I hear ya. At this point, basic calipers is all I have, and I don’t trust the calipers I have, they’re inconsistent. Which means I...
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I used it years ago when I was a machinist, I have always used mics / calipers to check bearing clearances, but I did use plastiguage on...
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Glad to see a torque plate used. And it should be being that SBC is so very common I'd think every machine shop has one, but even lazy...
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Thanks for that. Sometimes I get lost in the deluge of information and various advice that for a street strip motor that 20 thousandths...
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FWIW, here are the clearance specs from the 79' overhaul manual. I personally wouldn't have any problem with running them at .0017 or...
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TotalyHucked reacted to legopnuematic's post in the thread What have you done to your square lately?? with
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Painted the inside and firewall of the 79. Did get a couple spots of dirt in the glove box door. -
TotalyHucked replied to the thread Latest thinking on replacement gauges.I was gonna say, wait a min! I had to go look, they were ~$600 or so when I got them in 2020. Last I knew, they were ~$800, crazy that...
