This past Saturday 7/19 I was assisting my friend Kevin expand a gravel driveway for a guy in Rio Linda. I spent about three and a half hours working for this guy for free mostly because I got to fulfill a childhood dream of mine and drive a Bobcat mini bulldozer.
In the course of talking to the home owner he tells me that he used to build race engines. He told me that he has built engines for both NHRA and NASCAR. He claims that he's build engines that went down the 1/4 mile in ~3 seconds and all manner of other things. He also said that he really enjoys and misses building engines and porting and polishing engine heads. Since I helped him with the driveway he would be willing to do some engine work for us for free. In particular he offered to do a high-end port and polish on the head. His estimate was that with a port and polish and a little grinding on the head and block mating surfaces, we could see around 250hp on 18psi.
There is one possible down-side. It sounds like he does not have any of the tools needed to do this work. We might have to provide him with what he needs as well as a place to work.
P.S. before you all get too excited about laying four strip of rubber down the front straight, I'd prefer to dial the boost down and keep about 50hp in reserve should we need it near the end of the second day to over take the class leader (and not arouse suspicion of our super-fast Audi).
In the course of talking to the home owner he tells me that he used to build race engines. He told me that he has built engines for both NHRA and NASCAR. He claims that he's build engines that went down the 1/4 mile in ~3 seconds and all manner of other things. He also said that he really enjoys and misses building engines and porting and polishing engine heads. Since I helped him with the driveway he would be willing to do some engine work for us for free. In particular he offered to do a high-end port and polish on the head. His estimate was that with a port and polish and a little grinding on the head and block mating surfaces, we could see around 250hp on 18psi.
There is one possible down-side. It sounds like he does not have any of the tools needed to do this work. We might have to provide him with what he needs as well as a place to work.
P.S. before you all get too excited about laying four strip of rubber down the front straight, I'd prefer to dial the boost down and keep about 50hp in reserve should we need it near the end of the second day to over take the class leader (and not arouse suspicion of our super-fast Audi).