Deacon Frost

Well, after losing compression in several cylinders and sounding like my exhaust was coming out of my intake manifold, I have had to replace my old engine which had only 40k miles on it. Here are the pics form the teardown. Feel free to weep with me.
Cylinder 1:

Cylinder 2:

Cylinder 3:

Cylinder 4:

Cylinder 5:

Cylinder 6:

Cylinder 7:

Cylinder 8:

Notice how smooth and glassy the even numbered cylinders are? The odd numbered ones are gouged to hell. I am not sure if honing will even fix the odd numbered ones, especially number one and seven.

Deacon Frost

Now for the pistons:
I am only going to show the worst ones and the best to give a comparison.
#1:

#7:

The good ones:
#2:

#4:

BlownChevySS

iTrader: (1)

Wow!! I guess I have been kinda lucky with my lq9 from the SS with the piston slap issue.

On the bright side, I have seen worse and yours could be worse. Good luck with the build

eseibel67

iTrader: (10)

#5 cylinder has a sheet metal screw in it.

Deacon Frost

It was the only thing holding that piston in the block. A-Team style!

O2Form

Let me guess...K&N air filter was used? Looks like alot of dirt was getting in the intake some how.

Cape T/A

what oil where you running, those pistons and rings look nasty and rusty!

mathia

iTrader: (2)

Yeah, a K&N filter was used for the odd cylinders and a paper filter was used on the evens. Finally conclusive proof K&N filters will destroy your engine in 40k miles or less.

DutchmanZ

iTrader: (6)

That is too funny

That #7 cyl looks really bad. I hope you can save it without boring it. If you have to bore, stroke it too.

69LT1Bird

iTrader: (1)

Looks more like coolant washed the oil off the cylinder wall causing the piston damage. Slap is usually cold start only and stops when the piston expands.

ae13291

iTrader: (8)

ohhh man that was too funny

O2Form

I agree they are complete garbage!

bjamick

iTrader: (31)

Can't really see to much by the pics, but it can be put back together pretty cheap. Just have it bored out to 3.905, pretty much is just a nice clean-up. Then buy a nice forged piston and rod setup and put her back together.

After having everything balanced of course.