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Please contact Joe for your complete machine shop service needs! He’s got a profile/messenger on here. Thanks for a grea...
07/18/2025

Please contact Joe for your complete machine shop service needs! He’s got a profile/messenger on here.

Thanks for a great 35+ years, I couldn’t have done it without the awesome support of so many customers, family and friends.
I’ve got some fun, educational plans for the future!

462” BBC shortblock ready to wrap and ship with heads.    Pump gas “High Lift Hydro” version. This is one of our custom ...
07/16/2025

462” BBC shortblock ready to wrap and ship with heads.
Pump gas “High Lift Hydro” version. This is one of our custom .608” lift hydraulic flat tappet cams, with .904” lifters.
The large diameter, indexed .904” lifters are the key to reliability and performance.
This one is going on a first gen Camaro for some street cruising and good times.

This may be the last one out the door here. Joe at Max Performance can build you one of these moving forward.

Two more BBC torque plates! Eleventh hour retirement additions!
07/16/2025

Two more BBC torque plates! Eleventh hour retirement additions!

This is a random pic I found on a forum. From the videos and information that’s well known, and from the tech videos I’v...
06/04/2025

This is a random pic I found on a forum. From the videos and information that’s well known, and from the tech videos I’ve posted, what can you see that could become a problem here?

*there are two clear items of concern. I can only speculate that the pin to bore clearance.

Engine is sold! Headed for a beautiful first gen Camaro. 462” block finished. Main studs. Line honed, decks indexed, ind...
05/24/2025

Engine is sold! Headed for a beautiful first gen Camaro.

462” block finished. Main studs. Line honed, decks indexed, indexed .904” lifter bores, dowel tru, bored, diamond honed and ultra finished with torque plates and ready for clean and assemble.
Shortblock and heads for sale or complete long block.

Engine is sold! I’ve got a nice 462” engine I’m putting together to sell.      It will be a 500+hp 500+ torque build. Co...
04/03/2025

Engine is sold!

I’ve got a nice 462” engine I’m putting together to sell.
It will be a 500+hp 500+ torque build. Could be closer to 600hp with some upgrades.
All the normal block prep and blueprint machine operations.
•Thermal clean, blast, pressure test.
•Sonic tested. Nice thick block.
• Align honed with studs
• Cylinders bored
•Honed with torque plates, profile finish qualified.
•Decks indexed
•Cam tunnel alignment checked. (Was dead on!)
•Lifter bores indexed/sized for .904” lifters.
•Transmission dowels indexed.
•Crankshaft precision ground
•Conn rods resized with ARP bolts
•Assembly balanced.
•Large oval port cylinder heads with 2.150”/1.72” valves. 116.5cc, hard ext seats for unleaded fuel.
•Dual springs, steel retainers, for .600” lifters hyd/solid cam.

I have most of the parts to finish, depending on how the buyer wants to set it up.


We can add forged pistons, valvetrain upgrades, etc. Intake/carb/ignition would be your choice, or use what you may have.

I’m probably underselling the power this will make, even with the hyd cam. If I don’t secure a buyer, I’ll will finish this with what I have and get it ready to dyno.
For our northern friends, I can get this engine to Duluth no problem.

*If you’re looking for something more aggressive, I have two more blocks, two sets of oval port heads, and 4” and 4.25” stroke cranks.
Those two would pretty much be built to order, per customer budget. They’d start at $10k.

Number 61, welcome to the family. Oldsmobile. Needed a pair.
03/27/2025

Number 61, welcome to the family. Oldsmobile. Needed a pair.

Used piston, prepped and coated with a Polyphen gold top coat and a TLML Poly/moly skirt coat.     I also added some mor...
03/21/2025

Used piston, prepped and coated with a Polyphen gold top coat and a TLML Poly/moly skirt coat.
I also added some more taper to the head land and machined a pressure expansion groove between the top two ring lands.

Torque plates number 59 and 60 showed up today.      Sometimes you need up to 4 for each block type. Sometimes you don’t...
03/21/2025

Torque plates number 59 and 60 showed up today.
Sometimes you need up to 4 for each block type. Sometimes you don’t need one at all!

These are just basic 3.0L marine heads, but the factory doesn’t do a great job at enlarging the seats for the bigger val...
02/25/2025

These are just basic 3.0L marine heads, but the factory doesn’t do a great job at enlarging the seats for the bigger valves.
We properly profile the throats and add a 4 angle seat for better performance. It’s a great upgrade at a real minimal cost.
We do this to the Vortec heads, Harleys, and about everything else with a poorly machined OEM seat profile.

Rebuilding and making some changes on another old vintage carb. This one of going on another shop engine for some dyno t...
02/20/2025

Rebuilding and making some changes on another old vintage carb. This one of going on another shop engine for some dyno testing of coatings, and to be a carb test engine until it finds a home in a car…or boat..

This is a set of 049 oval ports that are going on a 462” build. Using a bunch of nice used take out parts.      The inta...
01/01/2025

This is a set of 049 oval ports that are going on a 462” build. Using a bunch of nice used take out parts.
The intake valves are a set of 2.19” that I remachined to 2.150”. This gives more room to perform a nice multi angle valve job; where the factory sized valves don’t.
This is going to be a bigger lifter, Hyd cam deal, featuring some new coatings I’m currently working with.
I’ll post more as I go along, and then some dyno results, post run inspection, etc.

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