Pics of the GF helping me take apart my 5.3.
 

Here is how it looked the day I bought the motor, stuffed into the back of the gf's durango lol. I was told the motor was making some noise, which is why it was pulled. I'm thinking it was a spun bearing prob as one rod cap was missing. Anyways, onto the pics!

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Here are the pics as of yesterday.

Finally getting it onto the stand:
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Here I am removing the ex. manifold bolt. I had one break on me inside of the head :bang:. I'm going to try and get it out, but they are going to the machine shop anyways :D.

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I asked the gf to go ahead and remove the other ex. manifold, and the water pump. She loved working with the ratchet lol. After she finished she wanted to take a pic of what she had taken off so far.

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Now here are the good ones. Were finally inside the motor, and she's never seen anything like all this so it was kinda funny. (The old oil smelled like ass though)

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After that we started taking off the whole rocker arm assembly. After that was out of the way we could start getting ready to take the heads off.

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Here is a pic of her wondering WTF this thing is lol.
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After she removed the timing chain and sprocket I told her to thread the water pump bolts into the cam. She had no idea why. I then told her to pull nice and easy.

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Then she asked, "How long is this thing?"
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Well without to many issues it was finally out.
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That's all the pics I have, bc after that we flipped the motor over and started taking out rods and pistons. She now knows what makes her car go, or at least I told her. Oh well she said she had fun taking out the bolts lol.

I lmao when she tried to take off the balancer bolt . For those who dont know, the balancer bolt is a major PITA. Especially with hand tools, you guys got it lucky with the impacts.

As for parts, I have LS7 lifters, an oil pan, coil packs and brackets, and picking up my stall tomorrow.

Overall good times!

EDIT: Pics of the mustang now.
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Whats the motor for? My gf is the same way want to learn as much about it as she can.

This motor will be powering a fox coupe. Getting the roller this weekend, hopefully.

Cute girl! My wife has no interest in engines. Sometimes I wish she did. Other times...

hmmm i cant imagine what it would be like of both of us wanted to constantly spend money on the cars.

cool my gf doesnt care to work on them or know how they work, she just sees my bank account and all the deductions for car crap, cause shes a teller at wamu she can view it anytime sucks. then i get the, for all the money you spend on the car you can atleast take me out to dinner lol. i always get suckerd

How old is she, she looks 15-17 :secret2:

Thats Cool, my gf is afraid to get dirty and has zero interest in cars :(

That's cool...my wife could give two sh_ts about how cars work.

Good luck with the project man....your gf has some Natalie Portman look to her.

Must...resist...comment...

My gf is afraid to help me because I say not no nice things when I work on my cars...... That and I think most of the time my help gets in the way.... My dad tried to help and I finally told him to get out of the way :eyes:

She holds that long and stiff camshaft well.:secret2::devil:

Does she got a sister?

my ex gf drives a 72 nova 400 small block 650hp with 5k stall. now thats badass lol

Its all good till she drops a cylinder head on her open toe sandles, lol j/k Thats how you do, put her ass to work....

That's pretty cool that you both have an interest in cars.

damn all these lucky guys with girls that want to learn about and work on cars. Ive never had such luck with any of my girls doing that. goodluck on the build man!

Awesome, we jjust built a turbo 6.0 89 hatch foxbody, Finish some tuning saturday on it when our tuner comes up to the shop. my wife loves helping me work on cars! Sometimes its great cause we need to spend more time together! Goodluck on the build

Thanks for the comments guys. As for her age, yes we both look young for our age. She's 19 and I'm 21.

Ya she has been asking when were going to work on it again lol. I told her, well now I have to get all the parts to get it done. I have most of the parts, just gotta order all the gaskets, bearings, and piston rings. I will take pics of the car this weekend and add them to here.

Ditto, I am happy she just stays away.

i have that same tarp. thats cool she has interest and is willing to help. my gf is 18 and im 22 and she somewhat has an interest, or is starting to anyway.

Cool pictures.. That's cool she's helping you my girlfriend likes to learn a bit and likes to watch racing so that's a positive.. On the age thing I'm gonna be 20 and she's gonna be 21 but I look 26 and she looks 19 lol

Sweet. GL on the fox build

Ur grl is a keeper!

I had my Fiance' help me drop the exhaust manifolds when I installed my LT's and again when I lowered the motor back onto the pedestals after installing poly motor mounts, but thats about the extent of her helping with the automobiles. I can say with confidence she has no desire to want to learn about the things that go on in the shop. And like others have said, I think I like it that way. LOL. Good luck with your build.

Good luck on your build my girl get's jealous of a LS1tech.com LMAO but she is starting to like it. She has already asked to make a pass n my car at the track.

My girl is nowhere to be found when im working on my car. Thats fine with me :D. She is however about to buy a mustang :bang:. Im trying to convince her to get a camaro. Its her money...

You are LUCKY
 

you sir are lucky...my gf's would just tell me Hope your car breaks:argh:....whenever i would go to the track...My current one has no intrest in cars

Can she make a good sandwich too? if so i hear wedding bells...

Damn, I need to find me a girl like that!

My girl just helped me install my 404, thats the way to do it.

dam where yall from your gf is hot!

Is that a problem??? :engarde::engarde::secret2::secret2::secret2:

Did she actually pull that cam bare handed or was that photo posed? Pulling a cam is a tricky proposition and I wouldn't recommend a novice do it without gloves. Camshafts have a lot of very sharp edges and by the time you realize you've been cut it's too late. Best to wear gloves at least for a novice. By the way where did all that rust come from? The water pump looked good, but a lot of other parts were rust covered.

Well if hes from up here....everything gets covered in rust :lol:

Ya guys she's a keeper. She did pull the cam out all by herself, and without gloves. No problems here, I think I may have cut myself once on the block.

She's been asking me if were still going to get the mustang this weekend. She said if I do that she's going to be helping me take it apart and clean it up.

I really want to throw a cam in there, but the money doesn't look to good for internal mods like that. Seeing as after pushrods, springs, seats, and gaskets I'm at like $600 :(. I would much rather put that into a nice rear end, or susp mods.

Damn she is hot

Trust she looks ALOTT better when she's all dressed up :D. You guys are seeing her when she's working on a motor lol.

My girlfriend used to be the same way, then she became my wife and all that went out the door....moral of the story/dont get married:bang:

:lol:

foxbody as in mustang foxbody right?

Yep, foxbody as in Mustang :D. Pics of the car on sunday :D. I'll prob go ahead and start a thread in the conversion and hybrid forum once I start on the stang. Hoping to have it done by November.

I always had this same thought in the back of my mind. She loved my car before we got married, did that, then put her Nursing school AND now she's said "find the turbo you want and I'll take care of it". Hell-to-the-Yea!!!!!!!:cheers:

wait untill she spills rear end grease on her best clothes, and trys to wash it out, lol-cute lady, wish my wife was younger, lol

Well guys like I said, I picked up the coupe this weekend. As promised here are the pics. As for now all I can upload is the ones from my phone. I haven't gotten the ones off the camera yet.


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I will be removing some junk tonight. Mostly all the under hood stuff. There are all kinds of wires in there.

I can't tell for sure, but is that a iron 5.3?
are you going to punch it to 5.7? That would make nice track motor if forged.

It is an Iron 5.3, for now I was thinking of running the stock 5.3 stuff. I may punch it out to 3.898 so it can take the stock ls1 rods and pistons and I beilieve I could still run my 01 truck crank.

Can't make up my mind though, I dont know if going from 5.3 to 5.7 would make THAT big of a difference.