Mirror smooth iron block (Pic & Video)

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Mar 7, 2006 | 12:29 PM

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CMANZ28

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Re: Mirror smooth iron block (Pic & Video)

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Originally Posted by Brent94Z

Damn, that's incredible. VERY NICE!

How much time do you have in that sucker? About how long does it take you to do something like that pulley? Just curious the time involved to do something like that

I'm also interested in the time involved. I know I will never do it....but I'm curious. But I got to say NICE JOB!!!!

Mar 7, 2006 | 12:50 PM

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thesoundandthefury

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Re: Mirror smooth iron block (Pic & Video)

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I'm also interested in the time involved. I know I will never do it....but I'm curious. But I got to say NICE JOB!!!!

I've got approximately 200 hours spread out over a 5 month period into it. I would say that if I had settled to just do the front of the block, I could've done it in 50. But in this case, I did the sides, the rear bellhousing flange, currently have the lifter valley and timing chain cove at 120grit finish, (will eventually be mirror smooth as well), and will finish it up by smoothing out the casting inside the crankcase area.

I'll just put it this way: for the time I have into this block, I could've done 3 aluminum ones.