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Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:39 pm
by drunkmunkey6969
Got a set of SX150 casings and want to weld up and convert to 200 stud spacing........who is doing them?

Anyone got contact details, prices etc??

Re: Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:50 pm
by Lamaddict
CS Engineering. Opened up a 125 casing to 250 for an RB kit also got the casing blasted and steam cleaned about 230 inc the postage back.

Re: Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:06 pm
by coaster
I THOUGHT that CS Engineering (Chris Sadd) was charging around 150 for the plain 200 conversion, he does them in batches I believe. The beed blasting would obviously push the price up. Mark would have more idea but he's off to Lincoln this weekend. Still he might log in with his iphone 8-)

Re: Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:22 pm
by purple_pill67
Doesnt Harry Barlow do it? No min batch too. Sure its been on LCGB lately.

Re: Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:59 pm
by Andy Pickering
coaster wrote:I THOUGHT that CS Engineering (Chris Sadd) was charging around 150 for the plain 200 conversion, he does them in batches I believe. The beed blasting would obviously push the price up. Mark would have more idea but he's off to Lincoln this weekend. Still he might log in with his iphone 8-)
Ye Dan id go with that, remember Mark (Tidds) saying he does them in batchs but not sure of the numbers needed to make it cost effective for him (CS)

Re: Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:29 pm
by Stokie
MB - very tidy looking job but heavy money. http://www.mblink.co.uk/lab297

Harry Barlow was doing Spanish 125/150 caings to 200 in batches of 10 to keep costs down - I'm sure I've seen a figure of around £100 mentioned - not sure if it'd be the same deal for the Italian version.

CS Engineering as mentioned - I believe they did a batch that Knowledge was flogging a while back.

Re: Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:07 am
by Lamaddict
I can't remember the base price I paid but it's great job and the price is competitive compared to others. The price was higher for the vapour blasting etc

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Re: Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:38 am
by camel
i read an interesting post recently by chance on the "other" site,basically this guy managed to get a 200 barrel on a 150 block by drilling out specific stud holes on the barrel to specific sizes(dont ask me what i cant remember)
not sure if he aslso machined the spigot or the cases
if you do a search on the site you should find it as it was a recent post
so wouldnt this mean you dont need to convert to a 200 case? and just do the top end?
sounded a bit good to be true but it sounded feasable
can anyone shed more light?

Re: Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:24 am
by shocky
camel wrote:i read an interesting post recently by chance on the "other" site,basically this guy managed to get a 200 barrel on a 150 block by drilling out specific stud holes on the barrel to specific sizes(dont ask me what i cant remember)
not sure if he aslso machined the spigot or the cases
if you do a search on the site you should find it as it was a recent post
so wouldnt this mean you dont need to convert to a 200 case? and just do the top end?
sounded a bit good to be true but it sounded feasable
can anyone shed more light?
spigot needs to be machined down people have been doing it foor many years

Re: Who converts 150 casings to 200 ??

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:56 pm
by Lamaddict
camel wrote:i read an interesting post recently by chance on the "other" site,basically this guy managed to get a 200 barrel on a 150 block by drilling out specific stud holes on the barrel to specific sizes(dont ask me what i cant remember)
not sure if he aslso machined the spigot or the cases
if you do a search on the site you should find it as it was a recent post
so wouldnt this mean you dont need to convert to a 200 case? and just do the top end?
sounded a bit good to be true but it sounded feasable
can anyone shed more light?
It was me, it worked well. A 200 SIL barrel with a good, chrome ring piston bought new but secondhand off ebay. The spigot as it goes into the neck is quite thin. Using a pillar drill, drill out the 4 barrel holes 13mm, one 12mm as it's near a port. I used MB stubs, it was tight to put but got there. I used a 200 head just needed to drill and file it out bit by bit, some people got 150 head profiled but I can't see the point 200 barrel = 200 head. Anyway if performs just like a 200 but the cranks on the way out so I'll have to take it all off again :cry: