Looks like they tightened the trans bolts with the water pipe tab flipped down, or a wire stuck between.It can be welded. I always bolt them to a junk block to weld them, or they warp.
Composite - head and block have to be flat.
MLS - head and block have to be flat and finished to an RA of at least 60 and some require even better surface finish.
Every box of Acl alumiglide bearings I’ve ever opened had metal shavings in them.They’ve also had qc issues with 6g72 bearings (sizing).
I use king in everything.
The exhaust stroke is hardest. Positive pressure air is blowing into the cylinder pushing the piston down in a turbo application. Even the exhaust stroke gets padded by exhaust back pressure.
There is no thrust bearing on the shaft. That’s the only thing that takes an axial load. A stub shaft is just as likely to move axially as a whole shaft.We ran stub shafts in 1300+ hp builds with a fuel pump driven off the timing belt. Zero...