If there is one way to make friends with your local machine shop it’s by bringing them clean stuff to work with. We know that not everyone has the awesome washer that the guys in the Hagerty shop do, but if you take some extra time and bring in parts that do not look like they have lived at the bottom of a lake of grease for 50 years, you’ll earn some bonus points.
In this video we see Davin doing just that. He takes the disassembled Cadillac 365 and scrubs it all up before taking it to the machinist to be worked on. The value here is pretty high. One, you can get accurate measurements of stuff, two you can see if there are any fatal flaws in terms of obvious cracks and stuff, and three, it saves you some money! If you paid the machine shop to remove the rusted and seized studs from the manifolds and block you’d be paying real money for it. Getting that done at the shop before it goes to the pros is a win.
This engine is going to be a 100% stock rebuild and that’s been stated before. Davin states it again when dropping the parts off, basically cautioning the machinist not to go crazy. Reuse the stock valves if they can be used, stuff some new seats in the heads, and let ‘er rip. This is a fun engine. Maybe we’ll see the Honda mill toyed with next week!
Anybody know if that is a purchased lift strap he uses on a lot of thing or is it just and old serpentine belt?
It’s just a serpentine belt.