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Old 11-17-2011, 06:00 PM
Daniel Barton Daniel Barton is offline
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Originally Posted by 7T2 View Post
i concur with the ford engineer-
adequate plug cooling requires careful consideration of surrounding liquid and solid thermal conductivity coefficients for proper cooling. per suggestion, arbitrary plug placement wont cut it in most castings, although SOME latitude of placement can be gained from proper thin wall design around said areas for air cooling. at best, it is a compromise.

jim
Yes Jim, thats how we did it... we just threw the head in the bridgeport and wherever it landed that was where the plug bore went, our process was extremely arbitrary, more like a game of pin the tail on the donkey... all it was capable of was setting the national record in its competition eliminator class, doing well at the divisional level, winning a national event and running .72 under the index... I guess even a blind squirrel gets a nut every once in a while huh???? Nice try!