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| I'm not fond of main girdles. |
| By Dave Shoe - 01/22/2004 9:34:37 PM; IP 216.243.176.34 |
I can't understand how long, thin legs with holes drilled in them can support a maincap. They do work, but I don't understand why.
Keith Craft sells the best ladderbar girdle I know of. It's race proven to work, which sorta negates my complaints. It does bolt up to the oil pan rail, thus lowering the oil pan. This may create some clearance issues. I seem to recall it costs about $350 to buy and $350 to install, but I seem to recall hearing it may be closer to $500.00 for the entire install. I don't have the facts well figured out.
I'm working on a different type of maincap support that fits between the crank and oil pan, and ties the center three caps together like a solid hunk of metal. The goal is to resolve the primary failure issues in supercharged and high RPM FE builds, which is cracking the oil feed holes at cranksaddles #2, #4, and #3, in that order (even on crossbolted blocks those are generally the first to fail) using a low-cost bolt-on. I don't know if it works, but I'll be finding out in the next couple months.
A picture can be found here:
http://www.superford.org/registry/vehicles/showmedia.php?id=102117
and here:
http://www.superford.org/registry/vehicles/showmedia.php?id=89457
http://www.superford.org/registry/vehicles/showmedia.php?id=89458
Pass or fail, you'll probably hear rumblings about it in the next few months when a production run is cast and machined into kit form. An align hone is required to complete the install.
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