A few pics from todays Mach 1 engine work :
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

RIP! Chet Herbert 4/2009

RIP! Chet Herbert 4/2009

Wha-what???

I hadn't heard.

The performance industry has lost another legend. 

Thanks HD ! this is one Gorgeous Billet TOO , Found This (below) on PB re Chet , also my long time friend Donny (Herbert Cam grinder extrordineir~) Told me of this Death this past week ,Chet "passed" of what I believe was complications of undiagnosed pneumonia peacfully in the hospital after a short illness Tom  BTW for what its worth Chet reground my first Hot Rod Cam for 35 bucks in 1968    BTW the Compression ratio is 8.8 to one 11% underdrive (for now)
 




Drag racing pioneer Chet Herbert dies at 81 Apr 23, 10:22 pm EDT

ORANGE, Calif. (AP)—Chester “Chet” Herbert, a member of the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame who helped develop an exhaust header that blew smoke away from a dragster’s rear tires to improve traction, died Thursday. He was 81.
Herbert died of pneumonia at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, according to Sara Fensterer, a spokeswoman for Herbert’s son, Doug, who followed his father into professional drag racing. The elder Herbert lived in nearby Villa Park.
Herbert was stricken with polio at age 20 and lived the rest of his life in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down.
“My grandmother told me he was so wild about racing, that if he didn’t have polio to slow him down, he probably would have died,” Doug Herbert said in a statement. “When my dad was 12, my grandma bought him a trumpet and hoped he’d learn to play. But he traded the trumpet for a Cushman motorscooter and it was life in the fast lane ever since.”
Lying in a hospital iron-lung for six months in 1948, Herbert developed ideas for manufacturing racing parts in his head.
Among his engineering and design innovations were the first roller camshafts for race cars. He was among the first to try nitromethene fuel in a dragster after reading how the German army had used it to power torpedoes during World War II.
Herbert helped develop the Zoomie-type exhaust header that blew smoke away from a dragster’s rear tires to improve traction, helping dragsters surpass 200 mph.
Growing up in Southern California’s 1950s hot rod scene, Herbert turned a Harley-Davidson motorcycle into the fastest quarter-mile dragster of its time. Nicknamed “The Beast,” the motorcycle clocked 121 mph at one of the first drag races in Santa Ana.
Herbert’s rivals complained that motorcycles held an unfair advantage and should be disqualified from Top Eliminator competition.
Eventually, Herbert turned to building innovative cars that often tested the rules of the National Hot Rod Association, the sport’s governing body. He developed scores of dragsters, drag motorcycles and land speed-record streamliners for other drivers.
Herbert was one of the first to establish a successful speed shop and parts mail-order business and was one of the first racing parts retailers to advertise in national magazines.
“Despite the fact that he had polio and was in a wheelchair for much of his life, he never let that stop him from doing anything,” Doug Herbert said. “I’m glad I had the opportunity to follow in his footsteps and be involved in a sport that he helped to invent.”
Herbert is also survived by wife Leanne; daughters Heather Herbert-Binetti and Tracey Drage; and sister Doris, who as editor of Drag News was inducted into the sport’s hall of fame along with her brother in 1993. Herbert’s grandsons, Jon and James, were killed in a car accident last year.
At the time of his death, Herbert and his only son were in the process of building a Bonneville streamliner with which they hoped to achieve 500 mph and break the world speed record for piston-powered, wheel-driven cars

BTW heres the new Tach mount set up  for the Mach

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HD ya know your Sh*t     ! an astounding 8*+ or - not sure if its the dampner ,crank or ?? But critical on a blower motor !SI Inconels will be here tommorow Just couldn't feel "comfy" with the Manley "Race flows", Heads should be on tommorow , then comes the Rocker/valve stem/pushrod "shizzle"
Glad Josh has the patience for this !  Tom
ps anybody needs a set of bitchen stainless Manley 188 ex valves let me know1

Hear that boys, just cuz your pointer is on "0" dont mean it's at TDC....probably not. Didnt Ralph have a balancer ring moving around last year? Dont call it zero unless you degreed it yourself or watched it being done. I broke apart a spark plug a few years ago and bored out the body to accept a rounded stopper I pressed in for doing the dead stop method on Hemis w/ the heads on, would prolly work on other engines...carefully.

Funny stuff  cause after he built the "piston stop" he dicovered a "heads on" device like you described in the Comp "dial in box"
 

So how far off was the pointer?

Yeah, Terry knows his sheit allright. Had that same problem, twice on the Moo boat. Initial timing on my Ford was a challenge as well. Ford Changed so many things over the years it's too easy to get a different dampner with a diferent pointer, timing cover, etc. In the end was my finger on #1 Plug hole with my son (RJ) rotating the engine with a breaker bar (All he could do) reverse from rotation, then gather it was compression stroke. THEN we attached a degree wheel, right at where I felt #1 was at close to TDC and #6 was heading down, (with a coat hanger), we bent the pointer at tdc. Rotated her over a couple times to recheck it, then again at 10* btdc, that's where we set it and run it at Mead. (And again we did it after the tunnel install debacle.)

Have yet to buy a new timing light to recheck it, moved it only by seat of the pants and it seems fine.

Nice to hear you have the same problems with chebbies, lol

Silver Sharpie Markers on the balancer, all I gotta say. Mark TDC and 10*, can figure it from there.

Ray

No idler nowdays? Interesting...

Patience Boys more pics mannaa~

Why is the top pulley bigger than the bottom pulley??

Why is the top pulley bigger than the bottom pulley??

Underdriven for break in.....

Tennis anyone?