Decent engine shop SE Essex way
Decent engine shop SE Essex way
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virgil

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1,557 posts

248 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Anyone reccomend a GOOD engine machine shop and balancing place in South East Essex? I'm weighing up fitting a new crank to my very ill bottom end (but would need it fully balanced internally) or biting the bullet and going for a V8D bottom end from the RV8 Gurus...

Half of me wants to build the engine myself with a new crank, partly to keep the numbers and some originality there and partly because I 'feel I should'...and the other half of me says, bite the bullet and just buy a rock solid bottom end...

The savings (short term maybe!!) would pay for the cam and some other bits of the upgrade I was doing anyway...

So IF I can find a good machine shop near me, I'm temped to do a home rebuild...

Simon says

19,338 posts

245 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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http://www.burtonpower.com/ They don't just do Fords & well established wink

virgil

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1,557 posts

248 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Thanks...bought parts from them years ago for a pinto motor...they really DO only do Ford's though.. ;-)

virgil

Original Poster:

1,557 posts

248 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Thanks...bought parts from them years ago for a pinto motor...they really DO only do Ford's though.. ;-)

virgil

Original Poster:

1,557 posts

248 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Thanks...bought parts from them years ago for a pinto motor...they really DO only do Ford's though.. ;-)

Simon says

19,338 posts

245 months

Wednesday 11th July 2012
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No they don't i know someone who had a some SB Chevy heads ported by them and they bored the same 350ci SB Chevy out to 355ci and balanced the assy too wink

virgil

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1,557 posts

248 months

Thursday 12th July 2012
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To be fair, I guess most machining work is pretty generic. I'll give em a call.

Cheers, 'broken crank'

virgil

Original Poster:

1,557 posts

248 months

Thursday 12th July 2012
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To be fair, I guess most machining work is pretty generic. I'll give em a call.

Cheers, 'broken crank'

virgil

Original Poster:

1,557 posts

248 months

Thursday 12th July 2012
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To be fair, I guess most machining work is pretty generic. I'll give em a call.

Cheers, 'broken crank'

haircutmike

22,455 posts

228 months

Thursday 12th July 2012
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That's a bad stutter.

virgil

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1,557 posts

248 months

Thursday 12th July 2012
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n-n-n-n-n-no iddddea what you mmmmmean