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I have a mig welder. It is also old. They are both hand me downs from my dad (he replaced them with newer and better ones of each). I was planning on using the mig welder, but I needed a new tip. And then the trigger stopped working. It has a bad connection somewhere in the line bc I can jiggle...

I had a little bit of time to start cutting and welding. I have both pipes welded on now, but I didn't get a picture of that. I know, my welds are ugly. But I'm not a welder and I am currently using an ancient stick welder that isn't very forgiving. I'm counting on my grinding skills to smooth...

They must have known they were slacking, everything usually gets shipped to me via ups from them. Ups never delivers on Saturdays (at least not the shipping Summit uses). This time they shipped it fedex, and they deliver on Saturday. So it's showing everything will be here today. Sent from my...

New angles cut and tacked into place. I'm going to cut the entire main pipe off and redo it too. I ordered all the flanges and angles I think I'll need last night. I was hoping they would be here today (from summit), but they must be slacking bc they haven't even shipped them yet. Sent from...

Driver side one is getting cut up again. The back pipe and probably number 5 both need moved. I didn't even think about the fact that they (number 7 especially) are going the wrong direction. That is where the original one curved down so it worked then. I'll have to cut them off and try to...

Here's what I have so far. Cut the driver side up and it's all welded back together. Still needs cleaned up, but it's not done yet. But it's ready to be bolted on and mocked up to see what piping I need. I threw some paint on it to keep it from rusting since it was already bead blasted and nice...

With the body lift, the turbo should have no issues sitting back there. Since its currently on my truck right now, I can't test fit it. I will probably wait until the engine is ready to set in before I go that far. The truck can't be down for any longer than it has to be. I do have a hx35 that I...

The original idea was to flip the passenger side one. Seemed easy enough and, like you said, would make them basically identical. But after setting it on a head and looking it over, it will not work. The two short runs can be flipped but the two long runs can't. They would have to be cut off and...

The explanation is pretty simple. I plan to build a centermount turbo setup for my 2000 k3500. I am in the process of building an engine for it and part of the build includes redesigning the pre turbo exhaust. The centermount setup will require a different intake and moving the ffm, but neither...

I don't know what clearances were with the stock cam. I based the 101 icl off of the specs I read on a SSDiesel cam, which, I believe is based off of the marine cam. I assumed that was the stock icl. Since I had to move my timing marks by one tooth and then a 2 degree offset to get the 111, that...

I didn't do it at tdc, I tried to get a rough estimate of how much clearance I had before the valve hit the piston in a revolution and I ended up with .066" before the piston hit the valve. I think that was just before top dead center when it would hit. I don't think our rockers are quite 1.5...

FWIW, Kennedy 18:1 piston vs stock piston Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

These are stock cam grinds? I was thinking that the 1.7 rockers were supposed to work on a stock engine without any modifications. I was under the impression that the stock cam had a 101* icl. I am running ~111 on mine, with stock lifters and a slightly lower lift (.275" I think is what it...

So I am thinking this whole think has just been an overthought mess. EWC touched on this earlier, but I guess I was so caught up in worrying about the cam smashing valves into pistons, that I really didn't give it much thought. But basically, I am thinking my clearances are fine. I started...

Looks like the magic number is .066". I'm thinking (and I may be wrong) that the actual clearance will be more than this but this gives me the "minimum" it would be. My thought is that since I am pushing the valve down (open) off the seat when it is supposed to be closed, that I am actually...

Well, I had the idea of backing the valvetrain bolts off until the valve closed (used the dial indicator and loosened the bolts until it stopped moving and then tightened just a hair so it would be right at the closing point with slight tension) to check clearances that way while I decide how to...

Funny you posted that, putting spacers under the rocker arm shaft was something I was considering doing too. Trying to decide what will be the easiest/least expensive without sacrificing quality. And I was thinking the same thing about checking the 1.6 rockers. Just really sucks that they are...

Pushrod length checker came today. Hopefully tomorrow I can start measuring. I was looking at summit to see if I could find pushrods to use and I found their Comp Cam pushrods that come with just the rod and one end. I also found the 3/8" ball tip that I would need for the other end. My only...

That first video is awesome lol. It reminds me of another "test" they would do at school if anyone was willing to try it.... Anyone remember the infomercial with the oil additive that they claimed you could run and then run the engine without oil and the engine would not lock up? Even showed...

This was over ten years ago we're talking, I couldn't tell you where the video came from lol. The school did have its own various race cars, so it's possible it could have been one of their own engines. But they also had a lot of connections in the racing/high performance world, so at this point...