Just curious if there are any special tools required if you build the bottom end of an ls1 besides the usual like a torque wrench, feeler gauges, tapered ring compressor, and i guess its a dial bore indicator for measureing crank thrust? A friend of mine said you need other special tools to build it. Thanks guys

 

Just went through this...additional things that will make it easier:

cover alignment tool
piston ring grinder (if using file-fit rings)
special tape to check your bearing clearances
torque-angle meter (if using OEM main studs or OEM head bolts)
plastic hammer
6- or 12-pt sockets (if using ARP fasteners)

 

so its basically like building any regular small block? when he said i special tools i thought he meant something other than you and i both listed

 

Kent-Moore makes a LS1 tool kit but I don't know specifically what is included. I don't recall anything else which was needed for my 347ci build.