The block was obviously mad at you for painting it pink.....

 

Painted chevy orange, and its not my engine. I only built the replacement for it

 

Im curious what the starter looks like after that

 

Well the rebuild is finally done and it is on its way back to me from Texas Speed at this very moment.

I have to say I am very pleased/impressed on how they handled this "refreshing" of my motor. They were very fair and accommodating in the rebuild letting me incorporate some changes.

I wound up having to get new pistons and go .005 over and a set of new Compstar I-Beam rods. Cylinders were a little out of wack from the initial tune that was in it to break in the motor and it turns out the Compstar H-Beam rods are only rated to 650HP.

I decided to upgrade to Lunati Link-Bar Lifters and went bigger on the CAM 231/242 .617/.610 113+ 2

And when she goes back in i will be running a set of ID850's and ARH 1 7/8 LT's.

While the engine was apart my tuner planted the seed that i may want to consider changing the reluctor to a 58x and running a newer e67 ECU eliminating the limitations and scaling inherent to the warren PCM in high HP applications. I couldn't resist and Texas Speed was very accommodating in changing out the reluctor and going to a 4x cam setup. Now i can put he motor in something newer someday.

So hopefully over the new couple of weeks i will have the time to get the blower back on and the motor back in its home. Then its off to the tuner to wire in CTS-V harness and e67. I'll try to post some pics as its progressing.

 

Couple of Pic's of rebuild

 

Who is doing the wiring?

 

TORQ in Miramar, FL will be wiring in the LS3 harness.