Thread: valve guides

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i first started doing valve and port work on heads over 20years ago had some basic tools then was doing the 3 angle basic valve jobs with a newen seat cutter and motor driver used sioux grinding stuff but i wanted to put my own seats and guides in.i did not have the money. what push me in getting more tooling and machines.it was poor work that i paid for seat and guide work at this time i had to farm out. my friend was doing valve work on harley heads and in time we started with his IDL machine for seats and guide work at my shop.but i could not do valve jobs or much trick stuff and customers asking for this work . i had guys wanting me to weld up heads from other shops .so before i new it there was nothing for head work i would not do with the machines and learned by doing . what i wanted to see was a prefect job that match or beat the jobs when i was paying for is work at that time i just bolted engines together but even then there were many that knew when i had parts at the machine shop i was very well known for heavily re worked parts so in time sioux 645 valve grinder. sioux seat grinder. a newway seat cutter setup with a motor driver . my buddy was doing most harley stuff i was doing all the car stuff at the same speed were he was only cutting 4 seats. i was doing 16. and doing big valve jobs with the neway so he took his idl machine as time past we just did not see eye to eye . at this point in time i had the same machines the small auto machine shop had in town. i pickup better machines that needed work i rebuilt them made parts if needed or i knew i could build a machine i did so.building and working on the machines that helped me understand what was going on when the job or machine was not doing a good job in time knew what it took to do a better job. now i have one of the bigger shops in town for auto /race setup .were i learn it from ? i did body and paint.frame work i was getting paid by the job i did 90hours of work in less then 38 hours so i free time and hang out at the machine shop watching machine engine parts. my free time i was building race engines street /strip and painting any thing that paid . heath went to hell slowly stop painting and body work .pickup more machines and tooling .i make my own hours . cost of them big chief heads bare 1600.each and up the head in photo as a 2.450 valve in it and is titanium . one of them heads i welded up started me down this road when i needed a seat in one kind of a full circle deal