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well its been a big whopping whole year since i last drove the car the motor is completely assembled and will go in about 630 tonight ive taken some pictures and will shoot some more tonight. ill try and post them up when im done. cant wait to fire off that thing off. kind of have those butterflies and 2nd guessings about the whole thing. now as for breaking it in, i was going to put maybe ? 10-20 street miles on it to speed the rings along then take it to the track if it ever opens

Good luck, Scooter!

No matter how many times you bust off a new engine, it's exciting every time.

I hope it turns out to be the best engine you ever built.

Jim

Well get that mini mouse cranked!!!! and as with most chebbies, start acquiring parts for the next one!!!!!!

good luck with the motor ..

Good luck and be safe.......post some times after you run that thing

i will if the track ever re-opens thanks for the good-luck's im sure ill need them. just finishing up the priming now, sure took long enough but i guess with a solid lifter cam it takes longer my main concenr is oil everybody has their own theory/brand/idea i am using rotella 15/40 with a bottle of comp cams cam lube i sure hope that works!

itll be fired off about 7 or 8 tonight. man i have butterflies cant wait to see what it really feels like to fire it off and say its yours and that i did it. well most of it

it runs!!! it runs!!! stop the presses!!! its been a whole year man im alot happier. now i jsut need to find this massive vacum leak

Good On You Scooter

it would be very good if i could find this vac leak. i am at a loss tried spraying everywhere nothing, new gaskets on everything i am thinking its just flat out the pro-form center section. they told me over the phone that the earlier ones had internal casting flaws so its gotta just be a factory lemon.

Scooter, I wrote this for the crankshaft wiki on another forum. Might help you figure it out......
http://www.crankshaftcoalition.com/w...ak%2C_internal

the heads and deck were milled i sure hope they didnt screw up my geometery. usually on a sbc thats not something to worry about??, as opposed to an olds or mopar. the intake is new ive only had it on there once before, it has only be torqued to a moter twice, this being the 2nd. good article tech this weekend i am going to have the intake matched anyway free with the head job just havent had any motivation to take it up to him till now, go figure huh. he baked the heads to. so i am not sure why this leak is the way it is. it sure is making me hate it already and its only a newborn! haha. tomorrow im gonna borrow a friends carb and see if that works.