MercRod????

[Chaz]

Boring stuff … I do one , I'm ready to move onto something else ..

[Capt.Insane-o]

Boring stuff … I do one , I'm ready to move onto something else ..

Chicken leg....

[Chaz]

As a wise man once said ... Shush you ..

Well I ground~idit Smoove .

Beat on em with pellets like it was first day of Dove season.

Particle magged em .

Honed the ends .

Chased the threads .

Squirted em with a hi~ Impact , Hi ~temp , thin film coating .

And this weekend they goin to my chryo guy .

Oops I didn't mean to drop the last two … yet ..
Not that I'm trying to hide anything , but because I want to give the last two guys the proper credit they deserve for putting up with me .
Credit is due to Bud from East Coast powdercoating , for pushing me off the cliff years ago , about the value and proper application of anti friction coatings .

Now for the big inch stuff .. I'm still a bit leery about using the chicken bones.
I don't speak Chinese , the "molding fee's" are a bit steep especially since they don't do short runs to see if they got it right before runnin off 150 units , be they right / wrong / or indifferent . So solly , U pay , we fix mold , run 150 more unit , same plice az befoe ..

Now if I had a ... ahemm , hook~up at a job shop in Motown ..

[Capt.Insane-o]

Now if I had a ... ahemm , hook~up at a job shop in Motown ..

An absolutely beautiful old man that worked for Rouch cut me a set of rods for the styrofoam parts spitter I was working on...We just ran put of pistons. He and Galen passed about the same time.

[FUJIMO]

[FUJIMO]

[Chaz]

LS-1 ….

[tnelsmn]

An absolutely beautiful old man that worked for Rouch cut me a set of rods for the styrofoam parts spitter I was working on...We just ran put of pistons. He and Galen passed about the same time.

Pardon my ignorance, but what's a styrofoam motor?

Thanks, this has been an interesting read!

[Chaz]

Older sand cast blocks are a work of art …

Newer , faster , stronger , , more profit , core shift , more profit , pouris castings , more profit , weaker parts , more profit , big hemoblobbin's of aluminum at the mold parting lines , more profit in using foam mold coring , hence the cute nik~name ..

[Chaz]

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I have been waiting patiently for my "ace in the hole" to speak up .. LOL

I had become pretty good friends with Dennis Kline years ago out on the Top dragster trail. Last I heard , he was an assembler at livernois Motorsports . I have been thinking about reaching out to him for idea's . Truthfully , I'm starting to feel like a kid who can't get a date to the prom .. The old world craftsmen that "The Capt" speaks of seemed to reach a peak after WW2 and has sadly been on a decline ever since.
All I have spoken to .. only / can / want / are able / to cut aluminum and 1,000,000 parts at a time ..

[AZMIDLYF]

https://www.saenzperformance.com/custom-rod-orders

[Chaz]

Midlife .. It was a good thing I was sitting down when I got a quote ..

You have to go thru the guy in Miami , who is not interested in anything but the numbers that get filled in on that page .

I really wasn't looking to pay off the whole country of Argentina's national debt , and if I was I'd want a lil say in what the money got used for …

But thanks for lookin …

[H2OPERF]

What is the 3L merc rod length.

[Chaz]

What is the 3L merc rod length.

[H2OPERF]

length would have worked with omc big rods but the big ends a bit smaller. You can make them work all ya have to do is use an omc crank and block .