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Location: Deep in the bowels of UCLA hospital
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oil leak test
i was just reading an interesting article in an R&T or was it a C&D
well anyways, the author went to the chevy plant and built a "trainer" mock up of the Corvette engine. It was really interesting, all the different checks and machine aided torquing, drop a bolt...it gets thrown away, balancing etc...
but what got me was that at the end of the assembly line they seal all the openings and use compressed air to see if the engine will hold the pressure. I believe in one port is was 5psi and another was 20psi. If these couldn't hold pressure for 2 min the engine was coated with soap water and the leak was sourced out.
can this feesibly be done in a 911 engine? wouldn't this help cut down on first start up after rebuild leaks and the hair tearing that ensues of having to remove your engine and take it apart???
MJ
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