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Parts Receiving and Cylinder Head Ready Rooms

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Legendary Engine Shop Scheduled for Demolition: Ed Pink's Hallowed Ground (Full Tour)

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What happens here

The tour moves to the parts receiving/catalog room, where all incoming parts are initially received before being sent to QC. Ed also shows the cylinder head ready room, where cylinder heads are prepared for various engine builds. These areas contain extensive shelving stocked with numerous engine parts, many of which are for vintage or by-gone eras, highlighting the shop's role in maintaining historical racing engines. These parts are organized and stored, awaiting their use in new builds or rebuilds.

Goal: Observe parts organization and preparation for engine builds.

Tools and materials

  • Engine Blocks — Found throughout the storage areas
  • Engine Parts — Components for engine builds and rebuilds
  • Shelving Units N/A — Storing engine parts

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And this is the cylinder head get ready room. This is where all the jobs are here that that are done getting done or in the works to get done. How long did the gray paint last in here before it got worn out? Oh, that's probably been worn out for 20 years at least. Old school shield decal. This is more fabrication with a glass beater, the saw, even our band saw. [Music] How old is this welder? Uh probably uh I think we got that welder 1970 or earlier, man. Yeah. Think of all the cylinder guys that already been welded up with that thing. Yeah. Well, back in that day, uh I had a full-time fabricator work for me. Uh Pat Foster was one of them. Mhm. He was really good. He was he was a drag race driver. Okay. He was a good driver. He built cars, but he was a tremendous fabricator. And he worked for me for quite a few years here to build whatever oil pans. Okay. Yeah. Anything we needed to be fabricated he would do to all that same welder. How often does that thing break down and have to get fixed? I think it's only been fixed two or three times that I know him. Wow. Yeah. Old school quality to last. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of built the last stuff in this building. It might be the

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