its about to be a long night, about to head over to my buddy's house to install my cam and springs along with a new radiator and water pump.... try to get pics throughout!!!! make no promises though

 

Done Yet???

I stopped by a buddies house that was doing an engine. I think he is going to have a late night too...

 

Not quite.... Only been on it about 45 minutes though.... And most of that time has been trying to find a damned drain pan

 

Got the new cam in, and have to be to work in 4 hours... Ooops!!!!! tomorrow is going to be a long day!!!! And then i still have to go finish this project!!!






Thinking well water was a bad idea, not that i had thought about it at the time








Lots of room...





Waterpump out of the way








Balancer off





Forgot i had a 3 bolt 4x cam gear....





Valve covers and rockers out of the way











New cam going in after way too much time spent getting the damn lifters to stay up!! Made a set of lifter holding metal dowels, wish the one for the right side was about an inch longer.......Better safe than sorry!!!!

 

Need to torque cam gear down and change my valve springs, then put her all back together as soon as i flush the heater core!!!

 

Nice!!!

 

Springs are kicking my ***!!!! Grrrrr

 

Not any more they arent!!!!! At least not as soon as i can find a long enough bolt!!!!

 

Got everything cleaned up and painted tonight and started on the springs.... By time i made my spring compressor i was about out of energy... Got 4 springs done cylinders 1 and 6... Only 12 more to go.... Need to find a longer 8x1.25 stud tomorrow... Ready for her to be back together and running, if it werent for having to make tools and randomly losing stuff in front of my face she probably would be

 

God damn you're a beast. Wow.