mrbelvedere

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you don't need to replace the 10 outside bolts as they are reusable

riceburner

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Thanks dudes.

574

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One of mine broke

mrbelvedere

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then you over torqued it or there was a problem in the threaded parts I have reused them multiple times without a problem

riceburner

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hey if they are cheap enough i'm just gonna replace em. i don't wanna leave anything up for risk that is an internal tty bolt. this motor is NOT coming back out once it goes in.

gahh i soo want to just do sleeves and pistons and rods now that its gonna be down to practically bare block anyone wanna loan me 1200 bucks lol

574

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You might as well do it all. Otherwise it WILL be coming out sooner than later

riceburner

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I fking cant!! gahh

Bluelightning

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What the heck is the motor doing out and getting split with new bearings, bolts ect if you aren't going to do it right? ATLEAST do pistons.

Personally I would have just run it till it blew if you weren't planning on a full build. Can't push enough to break it with the M62 anyways.

riceburner

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Nahh...

I feel like such a buzzkill saying that. I think my block will hold fine esp now that it will (hopefully) run less boost

SPDDMN36

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Run it til she pops and build the **** out of it. That's sorta my plan.

Bluelightning

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Guys have run over 500whp on the stock lsj motor. As long as everything stays in check you will never kill it with an M62. I thought you were building the whole motor. Kinda seems like a waste of money to do only half of it if the motor is currently fine. Because if it ever does break, your are changing everything you replaced again. Just my 2 cents.

jrmotosports 88

i heard the same lecture from sylver, i tend to agree. however i think RB and myself are kind of in the same boat. we both have limited funds. not everyone can do as big of a build as some of you. if we listen to this logic we might as well park the car til we could afford the bottom build and tvs. then neither of us would be driving the car for while. now what fun would that be?

riceburner

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its just that i really wanna run this ATI to make everything safer, and unfortunately its not a simple slap-on part. so you gotta replace what you gotta replace to install it. it royally sucks.

Bluelightning

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I'm not telling you you have to build the motor. I'm saying that if you can't afford to do it all, then let the stock bottom end ride. That's just my opinion.

Bluelightning

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You can bolt the ati on and go. Aside from modifying the cover. You don't need to extend the key way. It's just a nice add on.

riceburner

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dude there is no common line of information on here. and its very confusing. literally half the people say slap it on and let it ride, the other half says it will strip and bye bye oil pump.

Bluelightning

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Lol the joys of forums. Everyone has their opinions. I ran my ati last year and will with this new motor with no extended key way. It's not a common thing to bust a key way. The ati is a press on fit anyways. If you ever snapped the key way I'm pretty sure just the press on fit would keep the pump running. I'm not trying to turn this into an argument with those who run it and say it should be done. I guess I haven't seen enough key way issues to believe it's a must have mod. It's a good piece of mind tho that I would do when building a motor.

Haven07

I have to agree with what Bluelightning is saying, whats wrong with rocking the stock bottom end until you have the funds for a full rebuild? Just don't push the block to hard.

When I get around to rebuilding my bottom end, you can bet everything going in it will be new, it may take a bit but I'll patiently wait saving up for parts and making sure I have everything I need so that the new engine won't have to come out and apart again for a good long while.

Staged07SS

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I ignore both parties, and follow the build book, and what Bill Duncan has taught me.

Hasnt failed me yet.

Mrb is a good guy to listen to as well.

riceburner

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sorry guys i don't want any drama here haha.

just better safe than sorry. i THOUGHT i had everything i needed already when i pulled the engine, that's why i've been talking to you guys and asking questions for the last five months.

this will probably be the last snag and we are trying to move quickly to get this pavement pounder on the road in march.

staged, did bill duncan have any opinion on the ati?

riceburner

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p.s. parts just ordered. only cost ~250 for everything. really not that bad of a deal and plus now i have a nicely refreshed bottom end.

Staged07SS

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I never discussed it with him....

I havent had a chance to speak with him in over a year now. He doesnt visit the site anymore.

Kold

This should be fun! Good luck man, hopefully everything works out.
How much was this build if you don't mind me asking?

mrbelvedere

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there is nothing wrong with the stock bottom end but you can destroy a block on the m62 just as fast as you can any other power adder as for the ati its not got some big omg press that if I loose the key It wont spin its just .0005 press and that is not much out of all the engines that has came through my garage 90% of them have had bent or cracked keys that is why every crank I put in an engine gets extended

riceburner

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Id tell you but havent added it up yet. Probly 3-4k which sucks considering how much power i could have made by turbo swapping or tvs