I'm starting to feel a little better about the engine. After I pull the heads tomorrow I'll post up some pics. I don't think it's really that bad. I should be able to get it better than new for well under $1K including part upgrades. I pulled the rod caps today and the bearing look almost new. I also found it has a melling high volume pump inside. I'm pretty sure this is one of the reasons the mains are a mess. I bet it sucked the pan dry....

It does have other nice parts like the Lethal Performance Night Fury cam, hardened pushrods and upgrade timing chain and LS2 timing dampener. Too bad they did the oil pump too...

I still need to pull the heads but I'm pretty confident it will look nice inside

Plan for it is to pull the heads since I need to to get the crank out. I'll go ahead and get a competition valve job done. I'll add ARP head bolts, and have the mains on the crank cut .010. I've been debating ARP main studs. I'll most likely not swap them out because I don't think the benefit is there and I don't really want to go through the line honing. Free free to tell me if I'm wrong.... I'll put an underdrive SFI balancer on the nose, Billet flywheel on the back, ARP dampener bolt and flywheel bolts, trunion upgrade for the rockers and see what I can do for oil drain passage cleanup. I'll also swap out the high volume pump for a high pressure pump.

Steve you went to the dark side. :getout:

I sure have, it was too hard to resist with all the benefits.. Now I'm just trying to stay away from your general build path where everything must be biggest and most powerful I can find while I freshen the engine up.

It's all those bad influences around here.... :)

Some folks just aren't hide bound and want to move forward with cutting edge technology and weird science kinda stuff like fuel injection....



LOL

Ya know I would have just sold you my camaro it would have saved you a whole lot of time.

im leaning towards it wasn't installed correctly. Unless its got an L99 replacment it should be good. Whats the tag number on it?

But then what would I do in my spare time.....


Are you talking about the tag number for the pump or one on the engine? The Pump PN is 10296

Love to hear your opinion of the Speedtech TA rear suspension. We I am a Speedtech dealer, and was under the impression that the set up was a bit more "tested" and developed. Aparently there are only about a dozen units sold over the last 7 years. We (Custom Works Performance) installed one in my 71, and are overall happy with the installation, but the performance gain hasn't been fully achieved yet. We are making some alterations to the set up to try and improve a few things. I did a floated 9", and the noise tranmitted up the torque arm is a bit excessive. If you get a chance shoot me a message or email, I would like to hear your feedback

Keith
CustomWorksPerfomance.net

I'd like to hear feedback on the torque arm as well.

I just began mocking mine up (I must have bought lucky 13. Lol)

So far I'm concerned with the fit of the rear x member, I will add plates to the frame to correct. Also it doesn't look like the trans can be dropped without un bolting the subframe.

The noise is something I hadn't considered. Keith, I'd be interested in hearing about any mods and results.