How To Repair Cylinder Head Cumbution Area

Here'southward the original photo comparing the before and after work on a funny car cylinder caput.

Was the work faux or authentic?

A few days ago, EngineLabs shared a before-and-later on photo of damaged cylinder head on its Facebook page. The photo was originally posted by Noonan Race Engineering on its Facebook page. It was composite showing a closeup a heavily damaged combustion chamber and the finished repair work.

Within minutes, many readers were crying foul and charging that the two combustion chambers were not the aforementioned:

• "Not the same caput. Pay attention to item."
• "Two different heads. Look at the holes are backwards."
• "Wow, they fifty-fifty moved the spark plug and changed the bolt pattern."
• "That is not the same head, and yes, I am a cylinder head tech."
• "Not the aforementioned head, guys."
• "Please tell how they are non the aforementioned head."

Turns out that all the skeptics know less virtually photography than cylinder-caput repair. Plenty of other readers noticed that the head was just photographed from different sides.

The problem was just a matter of perception. Noonan had photographed the heads from different sides. EngineLabs used Photoshop to rotate the damaged-chamber photograph 180 degrees, and at present the bolt and spark-plug holes friction match up.

Just to be sure, EngineLabs contacted Alan McCoy, operations director and machinist at Noonan, a racing parts and applied science visitor based in Queensland, Australia. Noonan is best known for designing the X1 billet cylinder head used past Pro Mod and Top Alcohol racers.

"Nosotros find it quite amusing some of the comments that are seen on Facebook," says McCoy. "The before and after photos that were posted are definitely the same chamber from the aforementioned cylinder head."

The head is not an X1 but rather a competitor's model used by nostalgia funny car racer Peter Leahy.

What acquired the harm?

Cause of the damage is uncertain. McCoy says the usual culprit is bottom-end failure or over-revving. This head was brought in bare, just other times the Noonan technicians accept to remove broken valve heads or bent valve stems. The side by side footstep is to replace damaged valve guides.

"These are a flanged steel guide with a guide liner within," explains McCoy. "If the guide is bent, nosotros auto off the guide and flange down to the head on the valve-leap side with a manual manufactory and bulldoze out the remaining guide into the port. This way the parent guide diameter in the head does not get swaged by the bent guide."

Noonan Race Applied science is known for its X1 cylinder head used in Pro Mod and Top Alcohol racing.

The seat inserts are removed, and so CNC mills and seat machines are used to premachine the chambers in grooming for welding.

"Aluminum must be machined back to clean the material," says McCoy, "to forestall impurities entering the weld."

The chambers and insert recesses are then TIG welded to repair damage and build up sufficient material in the chamber.

"It's important not to overheat the material to prevent a hardness dropoff," says McCoy.

Noonan also designs and manufactures Pro Stock heads, valve covers and intake manifolds.

The chamber can so be CNC machined and the insert recesses recut. Boilerplate rebuild time is four to 12 hours per chamber, according to McCoy.

"If the heads are fairly tired, we by and large recommend surfacing the heads .005-inch to .010-inch or so," sums upwards McCoy. "Then we can re-automobile all chambers and seats dorsum to original heights, restoring the bedchamber book to a like new status."

Noonan promised to photo the steps for EngineLabs the next time a similar head case comes to the shop.

How To Repair Cylinder Head Cumbution Area,

Source: https://www.enginelabs.com/news/cylinder-head-repair-fake-or-real-you-be-the-judge/

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