Hey Paul, yes I live in Oregon. I've actually visited your house once when I picked up a Turbo motor from Ron...you have an INSANE shop there.
Thanks for the Kudos!! I need to come by your place sometime and show you the simulation stuff I do (stress and modal analysis, even dynamic simulation to compute position, velocity, acceleration, friction, damping, stiffness, etc.) What I was trying to do is model up an engine, set it in motion and ~8500 RPM and see what "blows up" first. No thermal or fluid dynamics yet...
I've seen a lot of members are making custom intake / exhaust maifolds...If you guys want me to "whip out" a cad model, I can save it in a neutral file format (like STEP, IGES, STL, etc) so your CNC can just mill it out (maybe you'd still need MasterCAM or something like that though).
My email is hughhendersonATcomcastDOTnet