Starting my engine build

[Mrturner1]

Originally Posted by toolboxchev

Dear Mr. Turner,

This thread of yours my good man has turned into something of a monster, and I at best am here to open something up.

I would be of great suggestion to go ahead and pull that motor. Everyone here wants to see you win.

Its 12 pages long now and that stupid broken bolt is out. If I had it my way and knew of this site when I did my top end rebuild I may have walked a different road.

It will be more bloody knuckles, broken bolts and grief and agony, then in the end you will have the satisfaction of one rip snorting snotty torque nosed little beast.

The choice is yours, I was very happy in the end on my last garage shade tree ultra top notch industrious internet savvy rebuild.

I learn more every day, I aint selling it and will be doing it again.

I hear ya, the thing is, I don't have a engine picker or an engine stand, so, if I went so far as to purchase those things and pull the motor out, why not take the block to get cleaned and machined out to a 383 and have a fresh bottom end that's totally bad ass?

I'm all for pullin the pan and cleaning and installing a new gasket, but pulling the whole motor would get me so close to a "complete" rebuild, that I might as well do it ya know?

Here's what's keeping me from doing the bottom end, and tell me what you think about this. The motor HAD heads with 64cc chambers which is a good amount of compression. It also had that Lunati cam with 285 duration and .455 lift. When I tore it down the truck ran like a raped ape above 2000 rpm and we can all agree it would've been even faster with a stall, and not once did the truck EVER let out even a puff of smoke. It could sit for a month without starting or it could be driven every day for 3 months, babied or pushed hard, it never smoked. So the bottom end was handling that compression and cam just fine, and what I'm throwing at it now isn't a whole lot bigger or more harsh for wear and tear IMO. So that's my thinking.

Now, you take my thinking which is driven by excitement and a little impatience because I wanna start the thing and have my gratification, and then you throw in some wisdom from people like Grumpy and you who have been doing this for a long time, and hopefully we get a good solution