Looking for a reputable machine shop that can cut my head to my piston dome shape. Also looking to have the hole for the wrist pin in the connecting rod bored out a few mm aswell. Located in San Jose, but im open for really anything.
Thank you for your time, Mitch.
Mitch you need to go to Fresno or seriously just drive around your industrial areas and walk in. No way you’ll find a good shop in the directory. Boring a rod end with a reamer from amazon can be done in your basement in the dark while still mounted to the crank webs. Your squish bands another story. Stay away from weird J-Bot shit like tennis ball squish bands and find a REAL lathe guy. What really helps is if you can find a arbor for your spark plug hole. Machinist love being able to cut their set up times in half.
not sure what they offeras far as head work goes, but team calamari in salinas has done good cylinder work for me with fast turnaround
I disagree with Todd, driving around in industrial area to find a machine shop, finding an arbor that fits your plug hole, paying big bucks to cut a head is just nuts,
Moped‘s are do-it-yourself, it’s not hard to shape a aluminum head with different bits, sand paper rolls and buff wheels with a dremel yourself
Best way to find quality machine shop work: drive around aimlessly using your engine to guide you like a divining rod. Yep. Another quality bit of advice. Solved it.
most of the good shops here in san jose are long gone. try calling a bike shop and ask them who they use, don't call a repair shop as they will tell you to bring it in to them.
Thank you everyone for your input, I ended up ordering from France as it was cost effective. I may also try and find a new wrist pin needle bearing. Thanks again everyone, appreciate it.
> todd amundson Wrote:
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> Mitch you need to go to Fresno or seriously just drive around your
> industrial areas and walk in. No way you’ll find a good shop in the
> directory. Boring a rod end with a reamer from amazon can be done in
> your basement in the dark while still mounted to the crank webs. Your
> squish bands another story. Stay away from weird J-Bot shit like tennis
> ball squish bands and find a REAL lathe guy. What really helps is if you
> can find a arbor for your spark plug hole. Machinist love being able to
> cut their set up times in half.
Lol I’ve never used a tennis ball I use a lathe but whatever nudeballs
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> > Mitch you need to go to Fresno or seriously just drive around your
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> > industrial areas and walk in. No way you’ll find a good shop in the
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> > directory. Boring a rod end with a reamer from amazon can be done in
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> > your basement in the dark while still mounted to the crank webs. Your
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> > squish bands another story. Stay away from weird J-Bot shit like
> tennis
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> > ball squish bands and find a REAL lathe guy. What really helps is if
> you
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> > can find a arbor for your spark plug hole. Machinist love being able
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> > cut their set up times in half.
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> Lol I’ve never used a tennis ball I use a lathe but whatever nudeballs
Haha I was gonna say... Jbot has a lathe not to far from the bay area and could probably do it.
I don't do custom stuff much any more but if I have it programmed I can do it too. My jig is a bit better than a spark plug mandrel...
A lil bladez scooter wheel makes a perfect jig.
Holes for studs, a centered place to grab in the chuck, and hollow to run the long plug thread retainer bolt
That being said, I usually use the plug threads directly or I make the heads from scratch
Guaranteed if homeboy started driving around his industrial areas on the 15Th of September looking for a shop he’d be done already.
Driving around older industrial areas looking for "head work." Sounds legit.
Thanks again gents
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