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Final Engine Assembly and Customization

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BluePrint Engines Factory Full Tour & Behind The Scenes: How Does a Crate Engine Get Made?

What happens here

After head installation, the engines proceed to the final assembly area. This involves installing various external components and accessories according to customer specifications. This includes components like oil pumps, fuel systems (carburetors or fuel injection), distributors, spark plugs, plug wires, water pumps, and balancers. Blueprint Engines offers various options, including complete long blocks or more dressed engines with all accessories. This modular approach allows customers to choose the level of completeness desired, from a bare short block to a ready-to-install 'crate engine' with a full drivetrain. The aim is to provide convenience and ease of installation for the customer.

Goal: Complete engine assembly with customer-specified components and accessories.

Tools and materials

  • Balancer — Reducing engine vibrations
  • Dipstick — Checking oil level
  • Distributor — Distributing ignition spark
  • Engine Blocks — Engines receiving final external components
  • Front Drive Kit — Providing power to accessories
  • Fuel System — Delivering fuel to the engine
  • Oil Pump — Lubricating engine components
  • Plug Wires — Transmitting spark plug voltage
  • Spark Plugs — Igniting the air/fuel mixture
  • Valve Covers — Covering the valvetrain

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that we do you got an oil pump and a pickup screen that sub assembled together so when it gets there he can just put that on the block instead of having to stop put the pickup screen in attach it go through and make sure that gets torqued properly and set before it gets installed so those are some of the things that we try to do is have as much product line side as we can so they don't have to leave the line as much it still happens where they'll run a unique engine and they might not have everything they need or if something broke along the way he'll have to get it fixed but that's our goal is to have more and more stuff line side to improve on flow for these aluminum heads it's a big block chevy derivative style head we do an incoming inspection to make sure that they were made right for us and after that initial inspection is done they get assigned a part number that part number is probably going to be the same part number if you go to our website and look for a head kit that's going to correspond with these numbers so they get inspected we go through we might remove some burrs and things like that that could be bad inside of the engine we'll go through some most aluminum heads don't require very much work but if you're using like a an mls style gasket or something like that you've got to be a lot more particular about your surface finish so this is just a mill underneath this guard there's a head that's got multiple tools on it it'll rotate you'll set the head in here it'll go through do a pass and then when it comes out they'll do an inspection so they'll check to make sure that the valve can seat in there properly and be at the right specs and then they'll also check it for surface finishing i don't see the surface but he's got the ability to to put a gauge on the head and it'll it'll go back and forth and then i'll give you a reading to make sure we hit the right surface from there you can see after machining you get some coolant and some chips and things from machining so they'll go through they'll go through a hot dunk wash that'll get done dunked and agitated up and down and then this is the importance of that washer that you saw you can see it's just a brush and a drill and so they have to go through and do a lot of those holes by hand with that individual drill so you think about how many different bolt holes there are to pay attention to that's where that value of that robot comes in after they get washed they get set with valves to make sure…

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