We'll see, it might not be till the week after, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed When are you shooting for?

Machine shop is boring, honing, line honing, decking, magnafluxing, shot peening and assembling the block. I'll get it back from him and install the heads, oil pump, cam, timing set, all the covers, oil pan, sensors, lifters, valvetrain, etc and stick it back in the truck.

 

that's cool. glad to see people that do their own motor work. the buggy's motor I just had the block machined and the heads done and me/zach(my buddy) assembled the motor one night with some whataburger lol. you got the heads yet? also, what lifters did you choose, I heard the new LS7 lifters are pretty badass. and, is the cam some secret grind of some sort ?

 

Dude check my sig! All is there! Cam is 235/239-600/580-113+4, from Jones Cam Design. Lifters are the LS7 racing lifters, from SDPC. I was going to have a buddy help me assemble the shortblock too, he's got all the tools and everything necessary, but our schedules don't line up until the middle of January, and I'm impatient

Heads are not in yet, I should have them middle of next week. I really wish I could have helped assemble the short block, I was really looking forward to that! I just don't have the stuff I need to check bearing clearances and bolt stretch and all that other crap. Oh well, next time I guess (different vehicle, hopefully....I don't want to have to build another motor for the truck )

How long did it take you to assemble the motor?

 

I like that TB. Too bad they don't make those for my year truck.
I wish someone would figure out the 90mm TB upgrade issues already so it would actually be worth the buy and change.
Hoping for a plug-n-play fix to this some day soon.
Until then, no 90mm TB upgrade for me.

Jim

 

sorry, didn't know all the parts in ur sig were for the new motor. sometimes my eyes are just really lazy lol.

really checking clearances is pretty freakin easy IMO. all you gotta have to build a genI sbc at least is a torque wrench, correct sockets (ie 9/16" is almost every bolt on a sbc), plastigage, some assembly lube, piston ring compressor (got mine from harbor freight for 10 bux and it worked like a charm), oil, uhhhhhh I think that's most of the parts, gaskets of course. but the actual hardware is the torque wrench,sockets, plastigage, ring compressor and maybe a ball pin hammer, a deadblow would work the best.
total time to assemble: about 3 hours'ish. really havin two people helped, but we ran into issues of which way the rods are supposed to face (stock rods are flat on one side of the end cap) we figured it out and finished assembly. to do everything starting with a bare block and all the parts to a finished painted block with all gaskets and the carb installed ready to drop in was like 4 hours I'd say.
the clearance checking is easy. you just place the plastigage in a strip in the bearing journal, place the crank in the journal, put the cap on, torque all the bolts. undo all the bolts and take the cap off. whatever width the plastigage is now should correspond to the plastigage packet (it shows you how wide the strip would be for what type of clearance). you just do this for the whole crank pretty much. we took a cordless drill and hooked it up to the oil pump and primed it with that. took like 5 seconds.

here's a pic of the motor after we assembled/painted everything that night


btw, I apologize if I kinda hijacked ur thread chris. im lookin forward to seein the motor all put together and what kinda numbers it puts down. that cam should make for some good power

 

I've got pistons!!!!

Diamond -28cc 4.03 bore pistons, custom cut for 1/16, 1/16, 3/16 rings

 

mmmmm.... juicy

 

Now I don't have anything anymore

But....the machine shop does

 

How much is machine shop charging you?

Jim

 

I don't have it all broken out, but it's going to be about $940 or so for all the block work, RA balancing, and assembly.