Where's a good place to send sleeves to Oring?
 

IN the process of my build I'm wanting to Oring my heads so if anyone could give me the light I would appreciate it.

not sure if you want to ship across the country
Costa Mesa R&D Automotive Machine Shop John Edwards (949) 631-6376
he helped me do machining on my brothers supra. he also written a couple of books on machining. i was impressed when i went to his shop.

usp motorsports is in your back yard 9 sec gt2

yes, I know Chris but I believe they send it out to a machine shop in the South Fl area

ok isnt that what you want? a proper shop using a proper machine shop? ugr sends their 2000 hp engines for built internals seems good enough for them

give prototech a call or silly rabbit motorsports in vegas. they do their own work

I sent a pm to ItGuy so I'll wait to hear back from him but I believe he had LA sleeves do the Orings. I don't mind sending the sleeves across country as long as I know they have done it before successfully.

its been done for decades . i would hazard a guess theres a shop in tampa that could do it. tim941nyc certainly can do it.

The LA sleeves came with the oring grooves already cut. They do not install the orings however, you do that yourself with .03 wire.

I'll call a couple of machine shops in the area tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks guys

Make sure they know what they are doing. If they have not done it before on porsche sleeves I would pass as fixturing a sleeve is non trivial, you don't have a typical engine block to attach to.

A friend of mine says he can do this. He says what this is called is "face grooving" and he does it often. I do not think he's worked with 911 sleeves specifically but he builds and sleeves quite a few other engines to include Subaru, Viper, Honda, DSM and on and on lol. He has specific cutters for the job although you would have to confirm specs for the 911 sleeves. He is East Coast in Winchester VA, AR Fabrication is the shop name and (540) 722-3966 should get you Howard - tell him BLK sent you :) Don't know if he has an account here but perhaps I can prod him to elaborate on the subject if he does lol

Let me know if he can do this to the sleeves by themselves. Typically most places will ask for the block, which is not possible in this case. I would bet 1$ that LA Sleeve do this on the lathe at the same time as the sleeves are cut.

Stock sleeves?

Hey Tim, yes stock

I asked, he wants to know if the sleeves are already the proper height for installation. As these sound like the stock sleeves they ought to be, his concern is wasted cash if the installed height is high. Picturing this in my head from what little I know of the Metzger and i don't think we deck the cases\sleeves, cylinders are only one height yes? Am ignorant on this I'll admit :confused:

Says he can do them on a lathe no problem. He's got a CNC big enough to damn near walk into but I don't think that's required for this! Says he would need a headgasket to ensure the ring was placed properly.