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Old 07-16-2013, 08:28 AM
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curtisreed
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Some of it I do myself, some of it I have done. Valve work I don't have specific machinery for although we could set up and do it. Cutting the head deck surface, no problem. Decking blocks, boring, honing easy enough. Line bore or hone, don't have the tooling. Piston work, yep. Balancing I could, have access to balancer, but don't. I do all the small special machining on my parts that need to be done to make things just the way I want them.

Most of it comes down to cost verses time to set up and do it myself. Running the machine shop I'm in, having such a large family, and trying to race some makes me choose not to do it myself most of the time.

I just wish I had Zip's knowledge base to go along with my access to the machinery.

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