I havent been slacking

I've just had a billion things to do and almost no time to do them in. between putting new valve seats in my clinder heads, port and bowl work, and anal retentative cleanlyness for all the parts. On top of that Having all the required lab and theory work for the class which entails several hundred hours of job sheets and Engine R/R in addition to the problems that your average Technician will face with ordering and aquiring parts, fitment of parts. I Am into the Next class with my own personal engine project, Which willbe finished as soon as I order in the last of the parts required(roughly $250 left to order). Then the slammin and jammin starts and stops and starts again with all the blue-printing phases nessscary to make the level of performance I'm looking for and the longevity of the engine demanded in this industry. Ok now that the long long introduction is over its time for the pictures, Hurray for pictures

This picture is of one of my cylinder heads waiting for me to finish the new valve seats(It take on average 3 turns of a 45 degree angle cutter). At this point I was just waiting for the valve springs keepers and retainers to arrive from summit racing(shipping out of navada)

The next photo is of the engine block after i pulled it out of the jet cleaner and dried it off. It wasnt too badly dirty, but ever bit of dort on the outside can an often will get into the inside and cause Havoc with both bearings and machined surfaces, If you block comes back from rebuilding still covered in dirt, dont expect much.

This picture is some of the port work that was done, I got a little grinder happy and dont have a before picture but believe me I took a ton of material out of the ports and upper intake

My pistons are waiting to get back in the bores and get some fire put to them, Speed thou art my mistress.

Valve float

Yes you read it right, Ive found more problems with some of my parts. the valve springs have a closing force which is less then the requirement for my cam shaft. 150lbs as opposed to 230lbs. This means the missing closing force has to find a place to be made up at, which in the form of valve float. valve float is the valves staying open too long at high RPM because the springs cant close the valves quick enough to ride over on the cam ramps hence the valves dont fully close. were it a stock cam i wouldnt have much problem with it as it would be low duration and realtivly low lift, but at .447 lift (we're talk tenths of an inch here not thousanths) we're watching our street machine chew up a lobe.
Good news, Ive potetnially got a Reputation + as ive Designed an engine for a Real life client of my instructor and hopfully he likes it(400 ft/lbs of torque at low RPM, he Better like it. stump pullers for the win)