Building Blocks

Dave, son of the LS God (and "no", I am not swearing), cut out the front and rear cylinder block plates on the CNC plasma cutter. He did a very nice job. (Thanks Dave!) With a small amount of grinding, the entire assembly slid nicely into the frame. We also finished making the heads for the main cylinders. The front heads will be bolted on and the rear heads will be welded on just like the prototype.

We cant find the correct size liner material in the shop that we were planning to install in the valve chambers. This in turn leaves us with a bore that is too large for some other liner material that we do have. So I guess we will be installing a bushing to reduce the bore diameter. A brass liner which we do have in the shop will then be installed. The final bore will be 1 1/2" to allow the use of readily available cast iron auto transmission rings on the valve.

I kind of dread the thought of drilling and tapping the valve chambers for the front and rear heads. We managed to drill the main cylinders and heads with only a couple of "oops's". I just realized that we have to do it again with the valve chambers and hope that I can slow down and concentrate enough to avoid any screw-ups!