DuffyMahoney Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Genius! Any idea what motor Rebello is putting the head on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 V3 is going on a tall deck 3.5L with a custom crank and pistons. Normally aspirated. Should be high 4's for horsepower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 Question for you Florida peeps. I'm looking for a machine shop in central florida with a Serdi valve machine. After my problem with V1 dropping a seat I'm inclined to steer away from any shop that doesn't do seats on a regular basis or with a modern machine. Rebello is hooked up with someone but I really don't want to ship my head across the country and back if I don't have to. Thanks Derek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkspeed Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 Big Jim @ Dover Cylinder in Orlando does all our work. Best in central FL. He has a very good eye for detail that you need. Don't know what machine he uses. 407_481_0088. Tell him you know me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted October 14, 2017 Author Share Posted October 14, 2017 8 minutes ago, clarkspeed said: Big Jim @ Dover Cylinder in Orlando does all our work. Best in central FL. He has a very good eye for detail that you need. Don't know what machine he uses. 407_481_0088. Tell him you know me. I believe I called him and he doesn't have a Serdi. He also seemed to take offense that I asked. Maybe I caught him at a bad time. I have a local guy here that can do it with the older style equipment. I'm really thinking about cutting the seat pockets on mine myself. I mean it's in the 4th axis and it should be more accurate than lining up via the guide. A tech at Ferrea told me about mixing dry ice and acetone to shrink the seats. Or I may look at nitrogen. It seems that shrinking the seats in a controlled bath would give predictable results. My guides and seats were installed by someone who was very capable. They were just having a bad day. I'm hoping to minimize that by going with the Serdi. I may be fooling myself though. Thanks Derek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seattlejester Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 On 10/14/2017 at 4:51 PM, Derek said: A tech at Ferrea told me about mixing dry ice and acetone to shrink the seats. Or I may look at nitrogen. It seems that shrinking the seats in a controlled bath would give predictable results. I may be misreading this, but if you mean a liquid nitrogen bath would hold temp better then dry ice and acetone, they would both hold their temperatures respectively well. We do dry ice and 200 proof ethanol to flash freeze. Use half crushed dry ice and half of the bigger pieces, the smaller pieces will super cool the ethanol as it evaporates and the bigger chunks will maintain the temperature. Until the big pieces fully evaporate you won't have any problem with maintaining a low temp. If you mean either liquid nitrogen or dry ice and acetone, then disregard. Although I will say if you have access to liquid nitrogen it might be cheaper, granted you would have to probably borrow a doer and container if you wanted to keep it around a while, whereas with dry ice and acetone we use a variety of containers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 Thanks for the info. Yes I meant either would do a good job of consistency. Seems like ethanol and dry ice would be easier to manage. I'm going to talk to my local guy. He has the skills for sure it's just that I know the value of technology and precision and his gear is on the older side. My valve seat didn't fail due to lack of technology. It failed because of poor installation and a Serdi won't help that. Derek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted October 28, 2017 Author Share Posted October 28, 2017 Cam core lathe work finished. Gun drilled S7 tool steel. Eight standard and two VCT. My poor little lathe got quite the workout:) These are the fronts of the VCT cams. I'm copying the K20 dimensions as closely as possible. For some reason they use a very shallow feed groove on the cam bearing and a much deeper groove on the phaser end. Number one cam tower with the VCT grooves machined in. The drilled holes lead down to the head and the grooves will line up with the cam when I bore the towers. The letter C is where the intake cam will be. Although that is a coincidence as this is tower 1 set C. The next step is numbering the towers and after that they are machined as sets. I'm doing five sets this run. Making progress! Derek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texis30O Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 It is like Christmas morning every time I open up this thread! I am getting closer.... still waiting on a email reply from you on a few things... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted November 15, 2017 Author Share Posted November 15, 2017 Finished machining the cam towers. I already posted some of these on my blog and facebook page but figured I'd go ahed and dump them here as well. First up is really the last but since is the most interesting part I figured I'd lead off with it. So from V3 forward I have been working on making sure that people who wanted to upgrade to VCT down the road wouldn't be stuck buying a whole new head. This has turned out to be pretty difficult but not impossible. Complete redesign of the valve cover and modifying the pattern, new timing cover design and pattern, modification to the front of the head and redesign of the cam towers. Finding room to fit two oil delivery systems was the trickiest part. Here is a shot of two number one towers with the caps off. VCT on top and regular on the bottom. The only modification to the head and cam towers to switch to VCT is to mill two channels from the 6mm holes out to the oil grooves. To be clear you will need VCT cams and all the timing and valving bits. My opinion on VCT is still that it's probably an expensive gadget but I needed a new challenge and figured I'd see if I can make it happen. So if you are planning on a budget build I wouldn't be holding out for VCT:) Here are some in progress pics. Regulars to this thread have seen this stuff before but people seem to like shots of me making chips. Thanks Derek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grannyknot Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Love it when the manufacture clearly labels the cam and main bearing caps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theczechone Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 I may have missed it previously, but curious to why you chose to use cam towers instead of just caps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted November 19, 2017 Author Share Posted November 19, 2017 On 11/15/2017 at 5:55 PM, grannyknot said: Love it when the manufacture clearly labels the cam and main bearing caps. Yea I hate guesswork too. 8 hours ago, theczechone said: I may have missed it previously, but curious to why you chose to use cam towers instead of just caps? It's as simple as "that's how Honda does it". I never considered it because I don't like to change Honda's design much. Looking at it again I don't know if you could make the journals big enough to clear the lobes and not hit the tower bolts. Also it would make plumbing the VCT a little more difficult. Interesting thought though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 (edited) Laz at Mesabalancing outside Miami has a serdi last time I was in there. Nice guy and works on quite a variety of stuff Edited November 28, 2017 by Dusty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 8 hours ago, Dusty said: Laz at Mesabalancing outside Miami has a serdi last time I was in there. Nice guy and works on quite a variety of stuff Thanks for the info. Probably going to stick with the local guy for now. He's five minutes away and that is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted December 7, 2017 Author Share Posted December 7, 2017 VCT cam cores are finished. Really happy to have this behind me. I had one set of S7 blanks so there was no room for error. Cross drilling VCT control circuit. Talk about butt clenching. Sounds a little crispy as the drill bit breaks through the other side. S7 tool steel is some pretty tough stuff. Finished VCT circuit. Still have to deburr the holes. Here is a video of the finish pass ending on lobe 6 and starting on lobe 2. I finish them in the firing order so I don't get confused. The noise in the background are 2 other machines that I'm coding and running at the same time so I try and keep things simple:) Next they'r off to Crane for heat treating and OD grinding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 Santa was late but better late than never:) Went down to the foundry and pored the remaining 4 heads right before the holiday break. Went down and picked them up a couple days ago. Next stop Ohio for hot isostatic pressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texis30O Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Looks so good..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 3 hours ago, texis30O said: Looks so good..... Thanks. It's kind of cool having a stack of DOHC castings sitting on the floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexx933 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 I can't wait to be able to get one of these for myself! Hopefully, you'll still be selling after I'm finished with school. Do you have any more information on how your first customer's build went? A build sheet accompanied by a dyno sheet would be pretty great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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