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Those seats are plenty wide. That should last years. The old saying goes, 'the wider the seat the longer the race'.
I bet your palms are killing you!
All things considered, that's a great job.
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Cheers.

Not to bad, paced myself.

I actually ended up back cutting the exhaust valves a bit as the seats in the head weren't great and the back cut allowed them to seat just a little better.
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I could of cut them on the valve grinder at work but without a nice flat seat to match its pointless. They will sort of seal and it will run hell it ran with them buggered after all lol
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Water is thick, has a high surface tension and likely wouldn't leak if you could see through em!
(I say likely because some have Chlorine in their water some don't)

Add a touch of isopropyl alcohol or a touch of detergent to the water to break the surface tension or better yet, just use isopropyl alcohol straight ... Of course using a penetrate is ignorant!

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Gampy wrote:....That does not mean, I wouldn't do the same thing all things being equal!
I think we all would. :think:
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delcowizzid wrote:I could of cut them on the valve grinder at work but without a nice flat seat to match its pointless. They will sort of seal and it will run hell it ran with them buggered after all lol
It actually ran reasonably well once we got a little heat in it on the drive home and it was firing on all cylinders.
Gampy wrote:Water is thick, has a high surface tension and likely wouldn't leak if you could see through em!
(I say likely because some have Chlorine in their water some don't)

Add a touch of isopropyl alcohol or a touch of detergent to the water to break the surface tension or better yet, just use isopropyl alcohol straight ... Of course using a penetrate is ignorant!

Please do not be offended, I understand your position and you understand your consequences!
Build a bomb, expect it to explode!
That does not mean, I wouldn't do the same thing all things being equal!
Yeah, tap water, the chlorinated stuff. No good for drinking....

Honestly, a leaking valve does not a hand grenade make. What I intend to do with it later down the track is a different story. If it survives the first round a little more love it may receive.

At the end of the day it's a cheap and nasty build and if it goes boom I don't have a lot of money in it and hopefully I can pick up another ecotec cheap.
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immortality wrote:Honestly, a leaking valve does not a hand grenade make.
I completely agree, never said it did ...
immortality wrote:At the end of the day it's a cheap and nasty build and if it goes boom I don't have a lot of money in it
And that was my exact point with 'You understand your consequences'.

I haven't always sat here on my ass pecking at keys ... Built a motor or two in my day.
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It's all I tend to do lately at least 3 days a week assembling measuring machining everything from deisels to viper motors it's a lot of fun when you have all the tools
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delcowizzid wrote:It's all I tend to do lately at least 3 days a week assembling measuring machining everything from deisels to viper motors it's a lot of fun when you have all the tools

Nice. I wouldn't mind doing a stint in a proper engine workshop. At work we have a maintenance workshop but non of the specialist tools required to do a proper engine rebuild.
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I love the details of it ... It's one of my favorite things to do!

I could babble on all night, but it's all water under the bridge, it was a long time ago!
I've done hundreds and hundreds of Diesels, but not modern ones, pre-cup Diesels, hell, Vipers were not even a pipe dream when I was building motors!
I mostly did trucks and heavy equipment, was in the business ... But I'm a racer, started young, built all my own shit and some for others.

You all are spoiled with all the fancy equipment of today ... DRO's, CNC's, etc...
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