dry block

has anybody on here ever done or seen a dry block set-up i'm interested in doing that to my big blocks i'm thinking i'd like to do it cut down on oil seepage around the head and base gaskets if any of you have any info or insight or even wisdom. it would be greatly appreciated.

Perhaps find some items of interest in this thread.

Top-End Oiling Experiment

Good Luck!

Timebomb...go over to dragbike.com and do a search. A while back they had an extended discussion on this. Had some tips, ways to stop leaks in different areas, etc. I'll try to find it myself also when I have some time but if you can find it, it will probably answer lots of your questions. If either one of us find it, we should post a lead to it here.

i looked over there and i found some stuff but it wasn't very helpfull most guy's over there had only bad things to say to the guy's that were asking about it beaking off about a certain persons lack off skill in putting engines together i know the guy they were shooting down personally he is a very good freind as well as a fantastic mechanic in fact if i ever couldn't build my own stuff for some reason he would be the guy i would go to. and these guy's just shot him down it was his first turboed big block motor and he was asking legitimate questions which only understandable as there is no manual on how to build these big inch motors is there. it really pissed me off how they go at people over there sometimes.

Seen that happen here too... Your looking for information that some may want to keep close to their chest.

forums.dragbike.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=5793

Go here and it has LOTS of information about sealing a big-block motor.

thank's racer54 your right it does have a lot of good info and i'm going to try it all these big blocks can be an absolute bear to keep up with mine has so much cylinder pressure then also your dealing with 30+ year old engine castings and close to 50% increase in size they can be over stressed in a hurry.