oh hay random question time:

there is a heater deal thing near the oil filter. square in shape, oil and coolant lines run through it? wtf is it? is it to heat up the coolant or the oil? any reason to just... snip it off? :lol:

its the oil cooler

oh so it COOLs the oil? ok neat. i thought it was there to help heat the engine up faster or the heat the oil (which would be dumb so obvs its not that)

If you really enjoy it money isnt a matter

Hurry up and get busy :lol:

Definitely measure them. I'm just replying to your comment better safe than sorry. Pistons still fatigue and wear like all other internal parts. It's the chance you take pushing higher mileage parts. Just measure everything before you put it back together to make sure all is good before reassembling no matter which route you take. Stock rods can be reused as long as they look and measure ok.

the oil cooler is blah I got rid of it and now the engine runs cooler and so does the oil now that the oil cooler out front

ok so i dont feel too dumb for asking that one lol

ok update time :D

tonight we got the ole' crank out. my oem bearings all look perfect so we may just reuse them to ensure proper fitment, since we can't gauge them for clearances when reinstalled. but we'll see.

i got a dual pass endplate that was leaking a little bit if anyone wants :) same with a phenolic spacer that was NOT leaking :)

crank and head goes to machine shop tomorrow. keyways getting extended and the heads getting re-decked and cleaned.

think this next weekend motors going all back together, and hopefully back in the car the next

good stuff!!! Bet you are ready to get that thing back on the road!

SO ready, man. lol.

couple of drawbacks and its definately gonna take longer to put abck together than to take apart, but i think i'm done buying parts.

oh yeah p.s. just ordered the NBS delete bushings from levelzero. the Nuetral Balance shafts i bought used from someone are junk far as i can tell; whatcha gonna do.

That's how it goes sometimes haha.

I have a build of my own starting soon......and there are always parts that you don't think of, or stuff you decide to upgrade while you are in there haha

yeah it's crazy, i thought i was overthinking everyting at first, then found out i was underthinking it. haha

That is almost always how it is haha.....but as long as it is worth it in the end, that's all that matters

Who did you buy the NBS from?

I totally forget and couldnt find the messages from when i contacted him. Not an active member. And it was back in november when i bought them so not really anything i can do now

:( sorry to hear man...

I remember the thread, he posted pics of them all scuffed up, maybe you could machine them down and run oversized bearings.

Yeah i dont feel like dealing with the guesswork. Planning to cut these ones to use as b.s. deletes and then sell the stock ones lol. Bullshit

Crank and head are at the machine shop

Why is the head there?

There was some marring where one of the lash adjusters seems to have blown up so i cleaned it up with a dremel, and honestly the head just doesnt look that clean, theres still some gasket material on it etc so im getting it redecked and cleaned

Good call. I hate buying used heads. I am always scared I might get took.

I remember seeing the NBS you bought and that they were scratched to hell