Nine Ball

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Jeff, MTI does all of their machining/porting in their internal machine shop. You need to stop by sometime and take a tour, you will be impressed. Here is a pic of the machine shop, located inside the main building:

<img src="http://users.ev1.net/~ynot_dv8/MTImachine.jpg" alt=" - " />

ABNRNGR (Aka Dean)

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I've been in that room and it's very nice.

BADZ

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Damn, that is a very nice shop!!! Did not know about it but it does look like they got a good thing there!!!Is that fully owned by MTI? I will have to make it by and check it out!!!!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Nine Ball:
<strong>Jeff, MTI does all of their machining/porting in their internal machine shop. You need to stop by sometime and take a tour, you will be impressed. Here is a pic of the machine shop, located inside the main building:

<img src="http://users.ev1.net/~ynot_dv8/MTImachine.jpg" alt=" - " /></strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

<small>[ June 28, 2002, 04:36 PM: Message edited by: BADZ ]</small>

Nine Ball

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Yes, it is inside of MTI, and they have 4 certified machinists on duty. Three of them are S.A.M. graduates, one has over 15 years of porting experience.

The room in the back corner is where all of the porting is done, two workstations. Behind that red machine on the right you can barely see the new flowbench. This room is kept very clean, since all of the motors are also assembled here.

Tony

Ken

Yes they do the porting in house now... they stole the porter from the other shop.

Money talks.

Nine Ball

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Yes, Robert was paid very well to leave West Side Machine (who used to do MTI's heads 2 years ago). Before coming to MTI, he was porting heads for at least 4 Houston-area performance shops. Now they have a monopoly on his talents. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

Tony

Terry Burger

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Tony why did you delete my post? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

Nine Ball

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Gee, I wonder why Terry. See your avatar for details

<img border="0" alt="[jester]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_jest.gif" />

Terry Burger

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Tony I'll believe that when pigs fly. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

mmiller

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I would definitely go with MTI's heads whether they be stage I, II, or III. MTI has more than proven that they stand behind their work if something is not right with any of their work and to my knowledge, as a whole, MTI's combinations have out performed GTP's at the track. Since you are going to get the short block built by MTI why would you have GTP do the heads?

Easy decision - MTI!

Terry Burger

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I think it's a bad idea to order an engine from another country. Order the parts and find someone local to assemble.

JUISSD

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Nine Ball:
<strong>Yes, it is inside of MTI, and they have 4 certified machinists on duty. Three of them are S.A.M. graduates, one has over 15 years of porting experience.

The room in the back corner is where all of the porting is done, two workstations. Behind that red machine on the right you can barely see the new flowbench. This room is kept very clean, since all of the motors are also assembled here.

Too bad it wasn't done in house when I was a patron there. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />

Tony</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

Abdullah

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Terry, i don't think we have experienced mechanists to do a stroker or porting the heads. if the block is clearanced and machined for the stroker assembly i think it is not too hard to me to assemble it using the helms manual.

Country Boy

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The only probably Ive found with the MTI heads is the $3k price tag for stage 2s. What are the stage 3s or stage 3 LS6 heads? $4 maybe $5k. Sorry, unless you dont have anything better to spend money on then pay the $3k for a set of ported STOCK heads, then MTI all the way. Gees, these things arent gold (might as well be)

kewlbrz

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Country Boy:
<strong>The only probably Ive found with the MTI heads is the $3k price tag for stage 2s. What are the stage 3s or stage 3 LS6 heads? $4 maybe $5k. Sorry, unless you dont have anything better to spend money on then pay the $3k for a set of ported STOCK heads, then MTI all the way. Gees, these things arent gold (might as well be)</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I agree. At this stage in the GEN III game, prices are ridiculous all around.

66ImpalaLT1

Nice shop tony, what is that supposed to be an office building? I havent seen too many machine shops with a drop ceiling.

Eric

SteveD

The old saying goes "Pay me now or pay me later, it's your decission"

What in the world does buying a motor from another country have to do with it? O that's right you boycot ARE also don't you Terry.

The Emperor Of Darkness

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by xxxhp:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Chris ARE 360:
<strong>
You have access to 98+ octane full time there right?

I would go high on the compression (13:1) and run a big *** cam

Chris</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Be careful, the 98+ octane number is a RON (Research Octane Number). Therefore our 98-99 octane is equivalent to ~94 octane in the US. This is the case in Dubai & I assume that it is the same in Kuwait.

Go with MTI stage 3 LS6 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">yes just like what you said, 94 or maybe even 93 in Kuwait!

xxxhp

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Terry Burger:
<strong>I think it's a bad idea to order an engine from another country. Order the parts and find someone local to assemble.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And what kind of difference would that make? MTI would be definitely better than any mechanics over here. If something goes wrong with the engine, then that's the time to use local mechanics.

I have been driving my C5 with MTI 422 for over 2 weeks now & have put ~600 miles on it with no sign of trouble, except that the car cannot go in a straight direction when I floor it <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

Nine Ball

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Eric, the machine shop was built inside of the shop. They walled off one of the 12 huge service bays and added the ceiling and a storage area above it for parts. Its a pretty fancy setup, and there are more pieces of equipment in there since that photo was taken.

To give you an idea of how big the shop is, here is one side of the building. There are another six service bay doors on the other side of the building

<img src="http://users.ev1.net/~ynot_dv8/MTIfront.jpg" alt=" - " />

Private parking lot picture:

<img src="http://users.ev1.net/~ynot_dv8/MTIlot.jpg" alt=" - " />

As you can see, MTI is BIG and modern.

Tony