Shady Dell Speed Shop

Shady Dell Speed Shop
770 Shady Dell Rd.
Port Matilda, PA 16870
(814) 692-4232

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Welcome to Shady Dell Speed Shop’s new home on the internet. Here at Shady Dell Speed Shop all we do is small block Chrysler cylinder head porting/engine development work. We are a small shop, located in the heart of central Pennsylvania, close to Penn State University. Both the shop owner, and the shop’s chief cylinder head porter are PSU alumni. To the best of our knowledge we are the only shop in the world that has devoted itself to only working on the small block Chrysler LA/A/Magnum series of engines.

1/10/06 UPDATED SHOP INFO

Well winter is again upon us, i.e. the "busy" season for racing engine building and cylinder head porting. Please be aware that since this is our busiest time of year, it may take longer than normal for any and all emails, and phone messages to be returned. PLEASE BE PATIENT. It may take several days for email or calls to be returned depending on the level of inquires that particular day. If you call and don't get an answer, LEAVE A MESSAGE, either Ryan or Dave will return your call ASAP. One of us listens to every message we get and make our best effort to return every phone message. On emails.... We often get emails especially from out of the Country, that are NON RETURNABLE addresses... if you send us an email and you never get a reply, this does not mean you are being ignored, it means either we did not receive your email due to technical difficulties OR in most cases our reply has been returned to us due to a technical issue on your end. I personally reply to EVERY email we receive. So if you do not get a reply within 7 days, try again, still no response, you should assume your email has fatal errors and should call the shop and ask to speak to Ryan in person. I just ask that people be patient, We get alot of calls and emails every day, and I am the one who 98% of the time has the answers to the tech questions, so I am doing all the customer relations and I just need people to realize I only have so much time in a day to talk to various people. So just be aware, it can take some time to get ahold of me to have your questions answered, but once you get ahold of me I will be more than willing to spend all the time necessary to go over your combo/concerns.

Please take the time to browse around the website, it has recently been updated with over 160 new pics added, new flow info for Commando heads, W8 heads, W7 heads, INDY CNC heads, Edelbrock Magnums, CNC W5's, updated and expanded detailed price list, etc. Please browse around and take a look at all the new features and info. We are constantly working on new engine and cylinder head projects and will try to update the website with new pics and info every 6 months or so. Please note the changes to the price list, I have tried to make a detailed explanation of what every stage of porting consists of for the various heads, and some prices have changed slightly, we are now offering some new levels of porting that were not previously available to satisfy the needs of more customers.

I am excited to announce that our new building will be operational in January/February of 2006. We have been making many changes here at the shop including new equipment purchases that allow us to do more work in house. A couple of the big ones I am particularly excited about are the addition of a new seat & guide machine and the SuperFlow engine dyno. The dyno should be operational in Fall/Winter 2006, the dyno cell is nearing completion with the new building. The dyno will allow us to do in house dyno testing R&D. Currently we use an outside shop in Mechanicsburg, PA for all our dyno testing.

In the future I plan on expanding both our wetflow and dry airflow testing equipment. We plan on building a new flowbench capable of pulling 40-50 inches of vacuum at 400 cfm, and adding a Mondello wetflow system. Also we are planning on doing computer models of velocity maps in the near future, along with adding several new CNC programs to our head porting options, including an LA Edelbrock, a W2, and a W9 program, and possibly Magnum R/T depending on level of interest.

We are currently doing more and more engine work, including complete race engine builds and this is also something I want to expand on in the future, the new building will include a state of the art engine assembly clean room, with most of our focus on higher end W5,W7, W8, and W9 type race engines. We will still do the occasional Edelbrock head, etc street engine, but I would like for us to specialize in the exotics. We have purchased an 18 bolt BHJ torque plate and the biggest news for the engine building section is the addition of a RMC CNC block machining center to our local machinist, Rodland's Crank Grinding Service, in Warriors Mark, PA just a few miles down the road. All of our blocks are now being done on this machine, it indexes the bore centers automatically, leaves the smoothest RA finish on an iron deck possible, we can bush both 48 degree and 59 degree lifter bores, can lighten the race blocks etc. I am very excited at this addition to Paul's shop, as it will only escalate the level of machine work on our race motors, and it has decreased machining time drastically. The blocks are finish honed with a Rottler diamond hone. All of our rotating assembly's are now being balanced to within .1 Gram on a Hines computerized balancing machine. We are constantly working with our machinists to achieve the highest level of work possible. I will try to add some pics of the CNC machine, the crank balancer etc in the future.

I am also pleased to be working in conjunction with BCR products in Canada to develop a new line of CNC Billet aluminum and Steel 4 bolt main caps for the SB Mopar race blocks THAT ACTUALLY FIT correctly right out of the box unlike some of their competitors. Keep an eye out for pics of these new caps.

Also I want to extend congratulations to all of our customers on their recent overall finishes in the 2005 Chrysler Classic event series, and a couple in particular. Congrats to Dan Trainer Jr. on his 2nd place overall finish in the Pro category running Shady Dell hand ported Stage 3 Edelbrock heads, with a season best 10.13 @ 128 MPH at the INDY event, also to Rick Rondy who finished 8th overall in Pro running Shady Dell CNC W5 heads, ported INDY intake and camshaft design, running 9.90's @ 133 in full street trim.

Thanks for taking the time to visit our site, don't hesitate to email or call with any questions/concerns, and we look forward to supplying all of your Small Block Mopar race engine needs in the future. Ryan J.

Click the links on the left to see information on some of the services we offer. We are a cylinder head porting shop first and foremost, but are also fully equipped to handle any small block Chrysler cylinder head machining operation, including head repairs, TIG welding etc. We also build custom one off street/race engines on an individual custom order basis, and we also take pride in our knowledge of the more “exotic” small block Chrysler arena. So, if the more exotic W7, W8, W9, W9 RP, P5 or P7 series of Mopar Performance cylinder heads are what you are looking to work with, we have the knowledge and experience to help you locate and use the right parts THE FIRST TIME. We have many contacts in the 48 degree SB Chrysler engine world, and our supply of 48 degree race heads/parts is constantly changing. So, from mild pump gas street engines to 800+ HP 48 degree race engines, we want to be your source for all your small block Chrysler needs.

If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to call or email us for more information.

For all your technical questions please email RyanJ@shadydellspeedshop.com