Bartonek Drag Racing

In an effort to clean up my page that way the updates that are PiDash and my turbo Camaro related are not drowned out, click the Continue Reading button below to read about the crook Gene Mosmeyer and his now defunct shop Mosmeyer Automotive.

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Kendrick Automotive, a local shop that builds my engines, has a SF600 Flowbench.  They had some software written years back in DOS that would take the values from a SF600, compute various things like Previous CFM and Current CFM (meaning, after porting) and would print out results showing % Gain and then Exhaust to Intake ratio which is awesome to have when designing a custom cam.  Well their hard drive with the software decided it was about done working and that was it.  No backups.  All gone.    Well, in the real world, I’m a UNIX Admin/WebLogic Admin/Software Engineer.  So I decided it was something I could throw together pretty quick under Linux and built a Port Flow Calculator.   Basically the summary above tells you what input it takes.  It will generate a printout  (see screenshot) of the results that you can give your customer.  All heads flowed are saved to a database for later re-printing or reviewing.  Its Freeware/Emailware.  Basically, if you use it, tell me “Hey Alex, thanks..your stuff works!” and thats about it.  If you find a bug, email me and I’ll fix it.  It runs under Linux because Windows sucks.    Here are a few screenshots.  Its just about done.  I need to add a small section where you can add your company name to it (second screenshot shows it incomplete) and it will show up on the report, then some minor tweaks.  Also a pic of the printout below (yea I know..I should have scanned it.. LOL).  I have some dummy data in there so the report might look a little hokey.

LATEST UPDATE:

Port Flow Calculator Released.

 

 

A good friend of mine found a 406 SBC and short shaft TH350 race prepped trans with a converter.   I drove down to check it out.  The price was too good to pass up.  Had it pulled, loaded her up and brought her home.  Its a fresh engine with little to no miles.  The owner unfortunately passed away, car changed hands and he had other ideas on which direction to go.  It needs some cleaning up, so here we go..

The casting number on this 400 block is 330817, so looking it up on MorTec it shows its a 72-80 2-bolt block.  Perfect.  Lots of debate on whether a 4 bolt is weaker than a 2 bolt in these 400 blocks.  The only thing the owner knew was that it has H-beam rods, Sportsman II heads and of course the obvious stamping of “Performer” on the intake, unknown cam.  Being that I’ll be cleaning it up and replacing the timing cover with a better looking one, I’ll check out which cam it has.  Lets get to the pics.

Engine with a serpentine setup.  This was out of a ’66 Chevelle.  It didnt have AC but the owner left it on so he could use the serpentine setup.  Power steering not hooked up.

 

I’m not going to run any accessories other than the alternator, so I’m going to switch to a single V belt.  Lets get on to the cleaning and re-painting.

 

Repainted block.

 

Once I got done with painting, I took off the timing cover, timing chain and there ya go… CompCAMS 292H cam installed.  Next up is cleaning up the valve covers, replace the timing cover, clean up the oil pan and also to repaint the intake.

 

Kinda got bored with the standard site.  Decided to make it into a blog instead.  Hopefully this will be more interesting than my previous site.