It was supposed to be in a crate lol, i had no idea until i sent pics to kyle@tms and he said it left with a crate.

Local delivery to me was thru RL Carriers, dont know if they carried entire way - dropped for sure probably a few times cause that head looks like it was dropped on concrete so the crate was long gone before that happened

 

engine made it safe this time,got it out of crate and onto stand, wanted to just get it closed up - didnt send windage tray so oil pan is just throw on loose. also wanted to check to make sure there was room to still use the trick manifold with the taller heads

 

How's this thing coming along?

 

Sucks... lol

I started running some of the fuel lines and steam vents with engine on stand, got to where I was waiting on some fittings so I went ahead and threw engine in truck. I am combining the stock fuel line and 2nd pump with a Y that I will be moving the fuel pressure sensor too- so I should have a more accurate reading when second pump comes on. Hard tube for steam vents, regulator mounted up front. Back to waiting on some fittings to split fuel before rails.
Steam vents I wanted to run into water pump but still up in the air, may just run back to radiator for noe

 

Ok, been almost a month. Things going any smoother?

 

nah.

was up and running for a few weeks, chasing down some problems...
dropped injectors off to get cleaned and flowed, they werent really all that bad but i messed with about every fuel line between the stock and shortened up some of the other ptfe lines so good chance there was some trash left over in there. seemed to help
was getting some random knock sensor readings at idle softened the sensitivity some and swapped the valve covers, relocated the coils, looked like the rockers may have been tapping the baffles inside the valve covers.
currently i believe i have trashed the **** out of the converter (258mm circle d triple disc). makes some noise going into going from park/neutral into reverse/drive. fluid was full of debris flushed, changed filter, still noise. trans fluid temps climb out of control, acts like its real close to being locked at all times. got to pull trans and converter back out
i'll dump some pics in a min from phone

 

 

Really doubt all of that crap was from converter so trans going to be sent out for clean and refresh while it's down anyway