276 stroker from 35 years of parts

[GB SISSON]

Originally Posted by Bored&Stroked

Yeah, a contour gauge is a very handy tool for many different things - especially fabrication with tubing and other such fun!

I'll never let it outa my grip. I can picture a steel mounting tab welded onto a piece of 2" tube at a 45 degree angle. This thing would be the ****!, I mean the cat's meow!

Here is a pic I took several hours ago of the completed driver side head. After this morning's post I went down and decided that with the places where I just eeked out .040 (midway from top to bottom), it would be nice if it was .045 as that would match the bottom perimeter. To accomplish this I placed random postage stamp pieces of 100 grit around the half way point of my 'doming head' spun the wheel again and then cleand it all up with a 3 1/4" diameter cookie cut from an old, worn piece of 1/2" thick scotchbrite dropped in the hole. The sandpaper afforded some good traction on the spinning cookie and I think they cleaned up 'real good'. We are now .045 for the vast majority of this head. Perhaps I went a bit deep at the peak, but only for a real small area.