My Build Thread.........New Engine
12-05-2009, 09:54 PM
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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.
12-08-2009, 04:24 PM
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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 
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^^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!
09-21-2010, 08:52 PM
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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:
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:
09-23-2010, 05:27 PM
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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.
