Thread: Sleeving a Block
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10-18-2016 07:05 PM #1
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- Car Year, Make, Model: 40 Ford Deluxe, 68 Corvette, 72&76 K30
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Capecreations21, don't give up. I remember when we where trying to find a machine shop to bore and sleeve a 5.9 cummins to take it to .0120 over. No one around here wanted to do it. They all said it wouldn't hold stock power levels let a lone 1200+hp. But we took it to a machine shop that specializes in tractor pulling engines and he got it done. And guess what? A lot of people are doing it now. I'm sure we weren't the first to do it. We stole the idea from my friend's friend who has a nasty super stock pulling tractor. Now a days guys are building deck plate engines and sleeving them to get them to hold the power. Mainly 6.7s. Apparently above 1800hp modified stock blocks can only take so much.
Ryan
1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR Stage 3 cam, SuperT10
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I bought the 76 in August , but haven't been able to work on it. When I get a chance I'll post some pictures.
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