Haha! I think you guys are on to something!
...Or are you on something? Lol!
I just sent a request off, and we'll see how it turns out. Here are the basics:
Can I bolt a 5/8 plate, with the bores, water passages, pushrod holes, etc.,to the deck, then bolt the heads to the plate?
Ideally, I'd like to sleeve the cylinders through the plate.
If this is not allowed, can I use the plate as part of a two-piece head? The void left were the new plate is cut out over the cylinder bore would be the bottom part of the combustion chamber, with no, or very little, chamber in the head, just the valves.
I'll keep you updated.
In the mean time, Dale, (BoredAndStroked here on the board), just finished our crank girdle design.
This is a thick piece of steel - 1.25" - must be plasma-cut out of plate, Blanchard ground on both sides, sides profiled on the mill on all cut surfaces and then all the holes done with a CNC milling machine. It is a lot of work - and we need it to "contain the beast" called horsepower
Here is the 3D model that Dale just finished for the girdle - have to wait to validate the dimensions on a second block I just shipped to him.
I'll post the main caps and the final girdle/cap assembly later on this week.