been a while!!!

[MachGT]

So my engine gave up it's ghost back in the spring and I've been gathering parts since. I've got pretty much everything now that I need to put it together once the shortblock and remaining orders get in.

Anyway, I've got a teksid shortblock with cobra crank, manley rods, and diamond pistons. I'll be pushing around 500 rwhp with the vortech v2sq and some other goodies

[Squid]

Hey Eric. Good luck on your project!

[MachGT]

Here are a few:

On the engine stand, sure was nice to have a forklift available!




Getting ready to put the driver side head on:






Oh boy, there it is!





And the passenger head:




Here's a close up:




I installed the cams as well but need to doublecheck the torque on those as my torque wrench only goes down to 120 in-lbs and I'm suppose to torque those to 90 in-lbs

I put the valve covers on and wrapped it in plastic again to protect her until next wrenching session:

[J]

Welcome back, nice pics.

[Nicoleb3x3]

sweet! I want a new engine too! hehehe! must be awesome, the anticipation must be killing you

[MachGT]

ok, so I got the heads and shortblock cleaned up pretty well today. I doubt I'll get it all off of the non-machined surfaces but I'm not too concerned about that.

I also pulled the cam sprockets off of the stock cams, it's kinda tough to do with the cams out of the heads :q Notice that I zip tied the chain to the sprocket on this one and marked them all with a sharpie at the dots to get things lined back up. I wasn't able to find a link in the chain of a different color.

[MachGT]

made some good progress tonight.

I got the head gaskets today so I bolted the heads on and attached the cam sprockets (cams were already on the heads)



time to start putting on the timing set!. I had marked it in some spots with a sharpie so re-installed it to those marks using some of my original chain guides and some that were sent along with the engine



Then it was on to play with degreeing the cams. I put the degree wheel and pointer on and found TDC using a wooden dowel and dial gauge. I do believe I might have lost TDC trying to turn it backwards (loosened the bolt) I'll see if I can fix that before I get back to degreeing the cams.



Then I stuck the valve covers on to keep stuff clean and put the bag back over it before putting it to bed for the night

[mustangfreak123]

Nice! It's going to be a beast when you're done!

[MachGT]

should definitely be a lot of fun

[Riddick]

wow gret job, good luck with the build...

[Riddick]

wow great job, good luck with the build...

[MachGT]

I worked on it some more today, degreed the cams and found that the driver side was off by a link. It took a while to get that right but I finally got it. My solid lifter decided to compress when I tried to put the rocker on so I did it with a bled hydraulic lifter to be sure I'm in the ballpark.

then I found that there were some ribs on the timing cover that wanted to co-exist in the same space as one of the chain guides so I had to do some trimming on the cover before bolting it on, I think that the timing cover seal will have to be replaced though as the one the shop put on looks different then the one I have. But it does also look like the seal that was on this timing cover originally so maybe it will work. Anyway, here are a few pictures: