Crankshaft
In this post: 455 Piston Weights – Rave Review! I discussed piston weights for the motor I am building. The other night I stopped by the book store and picked up the latest High Performance Pontiac magazine and found they are running a series of articles detailing the building a 455 motor that will be [...]
Good news! I was able to file-fit all piston rings and get them installed on the pistons. I also measured all rod bearing clearances and was able to determine that we are in good shape with all rod bearings. We are at 0.0035 with all of them. That is exactly where we want to be [...]
Spent some time this evening getting ready to measure rod bearing clearances. I was only actually able to figure out which rod/piston combo will go in each cylinder. I measured the big end of every rod and found that they were all at 0.985 except for one which was 0.982 and another that was at [...]
Spent a few minutes installing the crank with the 1 and 5 bearing and cranking down the main caps to conduct a straightness test. The test was a success. I only saw approximately 0.0005 change in deflection. If I saw something like 0.002 – then I would question the handling of this crank prior to [...]