DYNO PARTY!!!!!!!!!

damn very sorry to hear that ......

I've never seen a well used dyno room that didm'y have holes in the walls and ceiling.javascript:emoticonp('')

Yeah it sucks

We were down 4+ hrs getting the flywheel thing straightened out......makes for a long day

When the dyno flywheel set up let loose she was making some good hp at 6200....Oh well

It''ll get straightened out, shyt happens ........to be continued

any carnage besides the flywheel?

bigblockfox468 wrote:Yeah it sucks

We were down 4+ hrs getting the flywheel thing straightened out......makes for a long day

When the dyno flywheel set up let loose she was making some good hp at 6200....Oh well

It''ll get straightened out, shyt happens ........to be continued

Sorry Mike,I know you have been waiting for this day since I first met you at the Ford Swap last year.

Don't sweat it guys, that thing was just starting to show its teeth before the mishap occurred..........just think whats its gonna do when it gets all tuned................you better be getting the car and yourself ready for that new bullet..................

It was cool to hang out and meet a bunch of cool guys. Got kinda tense when the flywheel flew apart and they were tryin to fix it. Special thanks to Charlie for showing us around and teaching a class on cylinder heads. Brian Spears

Sorry to hear that, I hope its not too bad.

What brand flywheel/flexplate was it...?
They should certainly hear about their shoddy counterweight attachment.

It wasn't a faulty flywheel. The dyno hub and joint was bolted to a externally ballanced JW Wheel. Bad deal there. It rejected the dyno plate at about 7100 rpm.
I pulled the pan last night around 8:00 pm and everything looked perfect, all the rod brgs and 1-4 mains perfect, but it beat the rear main bearing out of it when the flywheel broke. I think the rear main will polish out. It didn't get hot just hammered the bearing hard.

I will take the enginge back apart vat, re-measure, and start all over with the build. The flat tappet cam broke in great all else went fine.

I just hate it for Mike I know he was really wanting to get the engine in the car.

I saw 697 hp at 6000 rpm at one time and 634 tq at 4800 so it looks like it is going to make good power. That was without any tuning, first or second low rpm pull out of the box.

Ya never know what will happen,sometimes all goes well and sometimes not.

IDT-572 wrote: It wasn't a faulty flywheel. The dyno hub and joint was bolted to a externally ballanced JW Wheel. Bad deal there.

Thanks for clarifing that Blake....I meant to do that in last nights post.

When it let go I was like WTF

IDT-572 wrote:
I pulled the pan last night around 8:00 pm and everything looked perfect, all the rod brgs and 1-4 mains perfect, but it beat the rear main bearing out of it when the flywheel broke. I think the rear main will polish out. It didn't get hot just hammered the bearing hard.

Yeah I got to see her undressed and naked

bigblockfox468 wrote:

IDT-572 wrote: It wasn't a faulty flywheel. The dyno hub and joint was bolted to a externally ballanced JW Wheel. Bad deal there.

Thanks for clarifing that Blake....I meant to do that in last nights post.

When it let go I was like WTF

I saw parts fly, the light blow out and kinda cringed.......

What is bad about the dyno flange being bolted to an external flexplate? Can you clarify a little more since I'm dumb to this sort of thing? Just want to make sure it doesn't happen to me if I decide to dyno my engine at the local place...

jbozzelle wrote:What is bad about the dyno flange being bolted to an external flexplate? Can you clarify a little more since I'm dumb to this sort of thing? Just want to make sure it doesn't happen to me if I decide to dyno my engine at the local place...

Well I'm no veteren at this either. But what I understood after the mishap a flywheel should've been used instead of a flex plate for strength purposes, cause the bolts sheared. They didn't have an externally balanced flywheel.

Ahhhhhh...

I understand. Sucks that you had to prove the theory. get it back together and hammer down with it.

got one now.......

dfree383 wrote:got one now.......

Sure do Thanks Dave

No problem, its their for everyone to use and now we have it set up for external motors too.

too bad Mike, hopefully the damage was minimal and you can get it back together and dyno it soon. I know it's discouraging, but things like that will happen. Speed costs!
Gary

Freelander ... did you bolt a weight onto your Boss flywheel left over from the EMC contest...?

rmcomprandy wrote:Freelander ... did you bolt a weight onto your Boss flywheel left over from the EMC contest...?

It was Dave's fly wheel and we did bolt a weight to it , but I don't know if it was the boss flywheel or not.

We drilled two mounting holes in it to mount the 28 oz inch weight, then rebalanced it back to zero with the two holes in it. Then we bolted on the weight and balanced it again.

Race Ready Fabrications wrote:It was cool to hang out and meet a bunch of cool guys. Got kinda tense when the flywheel flew apart and they were tryin to fix it. Special thanks to Charlie for showing us around and teaching a class on cylinder heads. Brian Spears

Brian,

You are welcome! I'm glad you all dropped by and I hope I was helpful by showing you all the different cylinder heads and explaining things. I counted 8 different styles of BB Ford cylinder heads you got to look at.

Charlie

IDT-572 wrote:

rmcomprandy wrote:Freelander ... did you bolt a weight onto your Boss flywheel left over from the EMC contest...?

It was Dave's fly wheel and we did bolt a weight to it , but I don't know if it was the boss flywheel or not.

We drilled two mounting holes in it to mount the 28 oz inch weight, then rebalanced it back to zero with the two holes in it. Then we bolted on the weight and balanced it again.

Blake ... 28.2 in/oz is the necessary counter weight for most small blocks and 410/428 FE's.
A big block 385 uses 24.2 in/oz of counterweight; (if it's the original weight off the 460 flexplate, it will probably be right).