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10-10-2009
The plan today was for me to get done with work early, go to Steve's and get as much of the longblock put together as I could. I need all the covers from the old motor that was still in the car at my house. Then when we got enough people after work, go get my car, push it on the trailer and bring it over to Steve's for dismantling. Slap the covers on the new motor and throw it back in the car.
So here's what actually happened. I got to Steve's and rounded up all of the head studs, washers and nuts. Cleaned them up real good and started to thread them in. Hmmmmm, 16 of the studs were way short. Only 4 looked right. Turns out the Iron blocks are like the older LS1's. My studs came out of my LS2 408. Called Mike @ TEC. He checked around and called me back 5 min later. "Come on down and I'll trade you". Mike for the save!!!! Went back and slipped the cam in, mounted the oil pump, put in lifters and cups, and popped the heads on. By this time everyone started showing up and we brought the car over. Got it up on the lift and took our first look around at the carnage. The hole in the middle of the bottom of the oil pan was so big, that it took us a second to realize that it was there. The first thing we noticed was the hole in the side of the block that kicked the side out so much that it bent out the lip of the pan and broke an ear off. I also blew the AN screw-in fitting out of the threads on the other side of the pan. We stripped the motor down and decided to take a peak inside before junking it. Popped off the heads and #3 piston and rod were MIA. Just the base circle of the rod was still attached to the crank. #7 had a broken ring land.
On the other side, there was no piston damage but #6 was full of milkshake. Looked like maybe the cylinder somehow got full of water.
The water in all the other cylinders came from the heads when we removed them.
Also the timing chain cam sprocket bolts were all loose and bent. I did loctite them when I checked to see if it was still the stock cam and I replaced the chain. Cam sprocket was a bit beat up.
So, I need:
Fbody Oil Pan
Oil drain AN fitting
Oil Pickup tube
Cam sprocket
This is the same transmission. Please excuse my buddy's comentary in the begining. It took him like 2 weeks to get the video up, *******.
http://s261.photobucket.com/user/bonnarls1/media/losls2933.flv.html
60' 1.395
330' 3.886
1/8 5.981
MPH 117.20
1000' 7.791
1/4 9.330
MPH 145.94
That RX7 should be a badass setup.