Description:
Building a HIGH OUTPUT 4.7L ENGINE? If your boring your block out or even just honing your block for new pistons you should be useing a torque plate to insure you get the best possible bore.
Details:
What's a torque plate?
A torque plate is a block of metal (steel or aluminum) that simulates the cylinder head torqued on to the block.
What are the benefits of using a torque plate?
Honing cylinder bores with a torque plate better ensures the cylinder bore to be structurally true when the cylinder head is torqued on to the block. Without using a torque plate, the cylinder bore may not show signs of being out of round without the cylinder head torqued down.
The problem with this is that with the cylinder head torqued down, the cylinder bores tend to warp, resulting in being out of round by a couple thousands or so. This may not seem much, but when the piston rings are trying to hold the combustion chamber's pressures, the piston rings are not able to conform to an out of round cylinder bore as well as it could if the cylinder bores were much closer to being true. The result is less blow-by and increased performance as well as increased life of your engine components.
Can I get by without the use of a torque plate?
Yea, I guess. A lot of the small-town machine shops do not use a torque plate. Of course, none of those shops will ever set any records at any any race tracks.
The plate is shipped in a small WOODEN CRATE with 10x spacers. The wood crate will be in a cardboard box well padded. This is to insure there is no chance for damage in shipping.
Dropships direct from manufacturer.
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 27 February, 2020.
