Thanks for the input Jerry, have you ever had anything done at la sleeve? I like the work millennium did on my yfz cylinder. And my r cylinder doesn't need any welding so I'll probably just use them.
No I have not had anything done at LA Sleeve. I buy some parts and sleeves from them but have never had them do any machine work for me. We have a fully equipped machine shop and do all of the machine work in house. LA Sleeve does their own sleeving in house but sends out cylinders to have them plated, I do not know who does their plating.
We have the usual and customary machine tools required for the type of work we do. We have lathes, mills. surface grinders, boring bars, valve grinders, Sunnen mandrel hones, drill presses, many bench grinders, tig, mig, ox- acetylene, arc, spot welders, sheet metal brakes, sheet metal shears, many sheet metal rollers, band saws, cold cut saws and horizontal band saw for large diameter stock. We also have a CNC mill and and a 12 station CNC lathe. We have 3 punch presses and dies
We have the equipment to do all of the seat and guide work on the multi-valve 4-stroke heads. We make our own custom carbide seat cutter profiles in house so that we can quickly cut any shape seat or bowl that our flow testing and dyno testing shows beneficial.
We have 2 semi automatic mandrel tube benders that will bend up to 2 inch tubing and one CNC mandrel tube bender that will bend up to 3" tubing. We have a selection of mandrels and dies of various radii for 5/8" to 3.0" tubing. We have a high speed tube cutter, a tube roll out machine, tube flaring machine and a tube end finisher.
Our testing equipment includes 4 engine dynos and one large drum in-ground chassis dyno. We can measure power from engines that develop power in the range of zero to over 1000 HP. We have air flow testing equipment that can flow approximately 700 CFM at 28" of test pressure. We have multiple data acquisition systems that can acquire data while testing in house at rates up to 100,000 reading per second.
The high speed data acquisition equipment can show us the pressure wave forms in the exhaust system, inside the crank case and inside the cylinder over one engine revolution at max engine RPMs. Our other data acquisition systems can gathers about 40 channels of information at rates of over 1000 samples per second such as temperatures, air flow rates, pressure, force, vibration, barometric pressure, RPM, acceleration, or information form any type of sensor that produces and electrical output signal.
We have 2 radar systems, one that streams data to a laptop and the other that can record two speed simultaneously. We have a stand alone data acquisition system that we use to gather 16 channels of information from vehicles when we are testing at the race track or in the field.
We have a lot of other equipment that supports the above mentioned equipment as well as a lot of other stuff that is good to have on hand when you need it.
