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.
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