Project; "BEATERBIRD"

So I'm disassembling the stock motor today ... check out all the bearing action probably explains why I had 5 PSI at idle of oil pressure

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Rod caps look like they got changed but not the rods

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What's up with the second main Journal back I don't know why it looks so discolored than the others the opposite side in the block looks just fine

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Today I gave the car a little bit of attention I took out the wiring harness did some scrubbing and a little bit of painting

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kind of surprising what one can of spray paint will do under the hood

So yesterday I took apart the stock motor .... here is a better look at piston #4 that poped a ring land off

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Drove with that in that condition for about 2 months still ran ok

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Looks very nice.

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Well I got my heater box removed. ... RTV inside to seal it up

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Fitment wasn't ideal but I got it to work.

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That piston took a beating!
Great job on the engine bay. It looks real good. I wish I would of did mine myself, but I ended up sending it off to get done. It was supposed to be done in a week, but one and a half months later, still waiting...

Painted it today all black

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Okay it's been awhile since I posted but here are some updates

I found a place who had a mig welder that did aluminum welding and got the heads welded up ... thanks montoya's

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So I got 3 different intakes for small block Chevy and marked where to drill my new holes

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They came out almost perfect ... now it's not a full on machine shop quality but it will work perfectly.

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So the outer bolts are the stock bolt angle and the closer is the ones I re drilled and tapped

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I think I am doing good.

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Here is a video of me drilling them

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Well I take 2 steps forward and 3 steps back ... so one of my valve cover bolts had some messed up threads and since I have been tapping stuff all afternoon I thought it would be a good time to run a tap and clean up the threads on it ... I got it bottomed out and started backing it out after a few turns it caught some threads and got stuck ... and after several minutes of being careful no to snap it off ......

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Fuck me .... how am I supposed to drill out hardened steel?

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Carbide steel bit and pray?

Or, if you are brave, knock down the perch that has the threads in it so you can grab whats left of the tap with a vise grip?