After pulling the top end off my L98 for a clean and polish I decided to buy a used stroker shortblock to replace the original. I found a 385 shortblock with 3k miles and 30 runs on it that dropped a valve for $650 and have been slowly freshing it up. I thought Id post my pics.

This is the block when I first got it, I had the cyliders touched up with a hone, crank ground 10 under, starter pad re-welded(cracked off), replaced the damaged piston, added valley venting tubes, arp bolts for the mains and heads, all new bearings and the heads got a 5 angle valve job, springs shimmed and straightened the deck.

 

 

 

this is the topend that will be going on it.

 

Couple of update pics, my 2 friends and I were up till 3:30AM this morning getting the old motor out and the new in.



This was about 2:15AM and Im not sure what Im doing with a hammer but I obviously dont know which end to use.

 

We layed the upper plenum on the fuel rail and mocked up the paxton to see what it would look like.

 

Orange !! What the ??
Just kidding, it's lookin' great

 

Lol, its not orange. The flash on my camera makes the red look orange. All of my friends who have seen pics ask me why I painted it orange

 

Too bad you're so far away, I'd love to see it in person
Great build and OMG what a find

 

Today I got the radiator,trans cooler, headers,plugs, some wiring, msd billet distributor and throttle body dropped in. The throttle body was ported at home to 52mm and larger blades were added.

 

Man its looking great! Cant wait to see more pics on it.

 

what size throttle body is that? it looks stock, did you bore it out? i've measured the wall thicknesses of that thing and you an only bore it to 52 mm. .078" per side

 

Its just under 52mm.

 

All done..

 

Still needs a dyno tune but it runs... heres a clip