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I've not given up on the idea of a portable printed or digital form of ROJ guides and tutorials. I think I could do it but it would be a daunting task. There are somewhere around 150 articles on ROJ that would need to be converted to a portable format. That is a lot of articles to put into a printable digital format such as a .pdf document. I've looked into it and it wouldn't be as simple as copy and paste if done right. I would want it to have a linked index to the articles and I would want it to be searchable. I appreciate everyone who has responded so far but as Padgett said, the cost in time that would be put into it upfront doesn't seem to be justified by the number of copies that could be sold at a reasonable price. Another problem with a .pdf file is a handful of people buy a copy and the next thing you know copies are being shared all over the internet for free. I'm not sure that is what I want to happen unless I was planning to shut ROJ down and I'm not quite ready to do that yet. I'm still giving the book some thought about how it could be done that makes sense.

Try this one: ordered some lights from California. Shipped via USPS. Spent two weeks in Hawaii before heading to Florida.

The reason I chose it in the first place is because it requires no adjustment. I ordered a new one from Rock Auto today. Thanks again guys.

Set up an area to work on porting the heads, primarily the intakes. Rather than on a bench I am doing them on a set of low sawhorses so I can sit on a short roll around seat, easier on the back. Lined with plastic sheet on three sides and I found a use for my left over Covid masks 🤔 By just testing without valves it allows for quick verification of effects as various areas are addressed. Shortly after starting the head of my 1/4” extended carbide burr snapped off. It had a welded on head so it is more sensitive to getting the tip caught. The distance between the valve guide boss an the side wall of the port is right at 1/4” so it is easy to jam the tip there until it can be opened up. I have a larger headed burr too but it’s too wide to get to the bottom of the trough. New ones are on the way. I did continue for a bit with a burr with a chipped tip which works more slowly. In any case, just doing a mild taper on the valve guide and rounding out the throat just below the valve seat gains 10-11cfm. Removing the sharp edge where the floor of the port turns into the chamber does essentially nothing. Very small gain by smoothing the sides where the mold lines run the length of the port. It looks like improving the bowl below the valve head and massaging the valve guide further are where the easiest improvements lie. As shown in the photo, the flow is about 178cfm. I Need to add a sort of bell mouth to the intake port entrance and better finish the port once the shape is determined. The before and after of the port it is easy to see the vertical sides of the port are almost flat so rounding that a bit blends into widening next to the valve guides. I received the new exhaust valves yesterday and did a quick lap on one of them. The location on the valve is pretty good but the contact area is right at the service limit of .110”. Buicks do use a wide seat but it would be nice to narrow them a bit, preferably by widening the 60* angle below the actual seat.

"no proper resistance no start. " unless someone already played with the little white wires. At this point I really have no idea what you have, just need to ring it out.

I had one USPS package that shipped from FL and made it all the way to CT before going to NY, then DL, then NJ, back to CT before arriving in MA.

I hope yours arrives more quickly than mine. My crank sensor started out in Chicago on Monday and somehow was shipped to Massachusetts where they must have discovered that it was supposed to go 200 miles north rather than 900 miles east. It was supposed to be here yesterday, so when I opened the package delivered by USPS yesterday, I found the six new exhaust valves that started out in Texas on Tuesday?? I don't believe Rock Auto is the issue, it is the Postal Service. This isn't the first time I have received items that have traveled all over the country before arriving at my home, but in their defense, I do almost always get the part. To be fair, anything that travels through the UPS hub in NE Illinois has been a consistent problem child for years, so it isn't peculiar to only one delivery agent. End of mini rant that you didn't need. Best of luck🙂

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