09-09-2018, 09:49 PM
(09-09-2018, 08:45 PM)Tony Betts Wrote: Well done so far, that's some lovely work on making the tooling. You have skills.
It looks like you have some juddering on the cutting surface from having so few cutting heads?
A seat cutter will have around 20 cutting heads.
Also A pickervant kit usually gives you a grinding head, it may be worth buying one of these on its own to grind back the judder.
Also Austins recomendations is the seat head should be no more then 2mm.
The pickervant set usually gives you two cutting angles, one for the seat. And one to cut the excess at another angle.
Hope this helps, Tony.
Yes you are right about the juddering and the seat width. The seat width is a little wider than i would like but at this point I don't want to have valve seat inserts put in as I'd like to keep the block the way it is if possible. Given the age of the block, the amount of wear on the seats is negligible so I'll wait and see how it goes considering that the car won't be working hard in its future life.
Cheers,
Stephen