Well I got my shortblock back today but to my surprize, it wasn't assembled. I already drove down and couldn't wait for them to assemble it so I took it and will do it myself. I wanted to motivate myself a little so I mocked it up tonight, I'll start on the assembly tomorrow.
I moved this last week too and i now have a 3 car garage, the single is reserved for the Formula I'm towing the car over tomorrow and will get pics of it's new home. The single side is blocked off so I don't have to worry about anything hitting it.

 

i hope you didnt pay for them to assemble it

she is lookin nice though you should remove that overspray so it doesnt get into the oil carb cleaner works good.

man let me know a day so we can put that baby back in ill schedule it in advance

 

I still need to pick up the right measuring tools to put it together. Hopefully I can find a decent set for cheap as I don't plan on building many more for awhile.
There's no overspray, maybe it's just shadows.

 

sweet

 

What tools do you need?

btw, thanks for chatting with me tonight, I'm defintely taking my parts over to hines for balancing but I will probably assemble myself as well, no need to have someone else do it now, Goulds already prepped my block for the pistons, so I just need to slap everything together now. Block was already line honed the 1000 miles ago when I first assembled it and zero decked so it should be good to go. Did you ever verify by chance if your damper has a counterweight on it or not?

 

I'll go look now. They didn't have the damper when they balanced it, should they have?

Edit, no weights on it.
I need the dial indictor to check for play. I need to check bearing clearances too.

 

no they shouldn't and thats why I argued with goulds and I am not letting them balance my schit

 

Did Gene know you knew me? Did he tell you anything that he was doing? He lfet the receipt a little unclear. I'm calling him monday.

 

I told Gene I knew you, all he said was that your engine was ready and you were picking it up friday.. That was wednsday. Glad theres no weights on it, it didnt look tampered with at all either right?

 

Are you looking for weights attached to the damper? If so then there's nothing. I can get a pic if you want. I can do it now.

 

No its fine I believe you , you would recognize them if you saw it. I am gonna go to sleep now. see ya tomorrow.
Question for the night: what headgaskets you running?

 

Not sure yet,AFR recomends Felpro #1003 for up to 4.100 and #1034 for 4.100 bore or larger. I'm researching now for a good gasket.

 

i didnt like the 1003 head gasket its bore is too big when i had it on my car

i would go with a cometic head gasket the closest to 4.030 is this one

http://www.cometic.com/da_viewimage.aspx?da=2

you can also go to their home page to view all about their head gaskets

http://www.cometic.com/faq.aspx

 

i think you should go for a 4.06 - 4.09 bore gasket

 

What do you guys think of this cam? I may go wi this instead.
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...8&autoview=sku

 

thats a pretty good size... id Say GO FOR IT!! Its going to sound really mean at idle...

 

Shortblock is together so I hope to have the engine mostly put back together this weekend. I need to make a trip to Summit though. Here's a pic of the block and the garage the car will be in. I have to clean it up tomorrow as I still have most of the stuff from the old garage in the single side.