How hard is to rebuild a LS1 engine?
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How hard is to rebuild a LS1 engine? Well it got flooded here in houston couple of days ago and i hydroclocked the motor. 
.. After inspecting the motor seem like a rodknock. Possible bent valves or rods.
I believe before anything done to it, motor has to be pulled out. Taken apart. BUt how hard is the process. I have never done it, so im not sure if i want to take it to a shop or work on it myself. Anybody knows of any shops in houston besides MTI that can actually build a LS1 ?
.. After inspecting the motor seem like a rodknock. Possible bent valves or rods. I believe before anything done to it, motor has to be pulled out. Taken apart. BUt how hard is the process. I have never done it, so im not sure if i want to take it to a shop or work on it myself. Anybody knows of any shops in houston besides MTI that can actually build a LS1 ?
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From: Tomball, Tx
Hey. I am from Houston also. The only other people besides MTI that I would trust is either LME (Late Model Engineering), or HPE ( Horsepower Engineering). I am not exactly sure where LME is located but I do know that HPE is on Breen Rd. If you are familiar with S.H. 249 area around Willowbrook. Go to North Houston-Rosslyn just south of Beltway 8. When you turn down North Houston-Rosslyn follow that down to Breen Rd. Take a left on Breen, go down a little ways and they will be on your right you can't miss them. I do all my own work on my stuff. I know those guys and they do very good work. It's not hard to work on those motors if you have any mechanical sense and the stuff to do it. I would help you rebuild it but I am in Iraq right now so that kinda promotes a problem. If you do decide to do it and need anything just holla at me. I also have the torque specs for every bolt on the f-bodies and I have all the engine and trans codes for any LS based GM. Good luck!
I'll be buying a short block and building the long block. When you factor in the the cost of tools it is really not worth it unless you just want to say that you did it. You really can't build a short block for much less than what some of the sponsors charge.
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honestly if you never done it before.(i.e. never built any short blocks) I wouldn't try it. the cost for a sponsner to build it and know it's right then for you to build it and make a mistake would make the motor extremly expensive. if you build motor's before and know teh amount of detail you need to pay attention to I wouldn't see any problem with it then. just something to consider because if it's not right you'll be fixing it agian and boy I personal hate reparing things twice.
