IDIBRONCO
IDIBRONCO
Why not if they do it by volume? How we did it at the shop I used to work at was to tear the engines all apart, take the parts to the machine shop, usually in groups of individual parts (blocks, heads, cranks, cams, rods), then we would pick up the parts in bulk as they got them finished. All of the parts would then be put in their own storage spots. When it came time to build the engines, the builder would just grab the first parts that he came to and would then assemble the engine. We never knew which parts came from what engine before. The one thing that was certain was that there was no factory turbo rods in any of our engines. I was told that you could only get new factory turbo pistons from Ford (1995-2001 was when I worked there). I don't know whether or not this was true. I would lean toward the fact that they were probably more expensive and the boss just didn't want to buy them. We just threw all of those rods in our scrap metal barrels and they were hauled off. I would assume that a company that remans these engines would do it in a similar manner to how we did it, not like we would do it ourselves. We usually take one engine, tear it apart, have the machine shop work on only the parts from this one engine, and then reassemble them back into an engine again. This is why they could and probably would change out all of the rotating assemblies.