I've been lucky enough to personally view the building of one of Todd's motors and in about 2 months I'll hopefully have one.

 

Great job as always Todd, thanks for teasing me.

 

todds the man!!! hehe just adding to the nutswinging going on here...

 

keep the swinging coming...we'll have a total of five cores here (in addition to the three we have already, so actually 8) and plan to finally have 2 or 3 engines completed, ready to ship next day

-TODD

 

I have one of todds motors in my car, you cant go wrong with it. But get the 1/2" studs and hks gaskets and hopefully you never have to open your engine up again.

 

I like the 1/2" head stud option but my problem is that I want to buy just a built short block. I don't want to ship my block or heads. Therefore, I would need to get the heads machined locally. How difficult of a job is it to machine the heads for 1/2" head studs?

 

most local machine shops can machine out the heads, basically, they are boring the head stud hole larger to accept the 1/2" stud, typically, they must go at least .040 over 1/2" to get the acceptable fit

-TODD