what did you do to the motor and what was the ballpark to build it?

 

I bought the motor from a member here for about 1k. The block was fresh from a machine shop when I picked it up. Add in head gaskets, lifters, pushrods, oil, coolant, gaskets and stuff like that. I resold my good block, rotating assembly, and another crank to offset some of the cost.

 

what gaskets did you replace on the motor?

 

I had recently done oil pan, crank snout, front cover gasket, and water pump gasket, they had less then 5k on them so no need to replace them. I reused the rear cover and rear main seal (risky move I know) and the valley cover gasket I reused also. I replaced intake and TB gaskets with Felpros. I replaced the front pump seal on the trans as well as did a filter and pan gasket. For reference a bone dry 4L60e takes about 2 gallons and 1 quart to fill the converter, lines, trans, and cooler. Had these gaskets been original OEM, I woulda replaced all of them. No leaks so far

 

how is the paint holding up?

 

100% perfect so far. Got about 350 miles on it.

 

Wow, this Yank converter goes sideways at 50+mph.

 

Nice build. Where are the new ss4000 street driving vids?

 

Looks good! That beer does not.

 

Blasphemy!

 

^^ha ha! That's funny. Dang man. Go from changing stall to motor that would suck bit atleast you got something good out of it. Now rebuild your tranny and your golden!

 

Thinking about going with a built one from a sponsor....

 

Well, fast forward 10 months and 1340 miles and this happened.

Thats piston



Found this resting on the K member



Yes, the oil pan is still installed



Good news, I have this:



to go in this:

 

dang man. not was i was hoping to see at the end of this thread. i was looking for a video of some new times. sucks too see that motor is already done.

 

All that work and no aftermarket cam... I am disappoint!
Gj on the build though, and gl with the next one!

 

Reread the first post. TR224 is a Thunder Racing camshaft.

 

what happened? too much rpm? detonation/fueling issues/bad tune?

Also, switch beers yet? I feel as though the Bud Light fucked up your motor...

 

+1 on that.

 

Car had a decent tune on it, it did likely needed to be touched up/fine tuned but it ran great. I only turn about 6200 rpm so I wouldn't think that would be the problem either. It appears like a rod bolt failure.

 

sucks to see that, car looked like it was running good.

were u still on stock 10 bolt?