I am offering up my garage for anyone that wants to come down & help.
I need help getting my Iroc back together & on the road (or as much as we can) Engine needs to be finally put back together & mated with the tranny & installed

The car also needs to be fired up.

We are looking for a bunch of people who know their way around engine building & are willing to come help.

Offer of pizza & beer for anyone who is willing to come down, We cant do it until after we get back from reno in Mid august. so after that let me know dates.

 

where are you located?

also, i have never built an engine before or anything, but i have done transmission and rear end swaps as well as interior and suspension work. tons of auto electrical too. but no engine building experience.

EDIT*
i'm in Hillsboro, its a suburb west of portland

 

I am in yelm about 2 to 3hrs north of portland near olympia

 

i would come help, but i dont get back until oct. this is bryan, i met you at the camaro show. my wife owns the pink '86. i'll still get a hold of you when i get back to see if you still need help

 

Oh kewl. Yea I remember you lol.

OK not a problem.

 

I don't know jack about how to put a motor together, but I've installed several motors in Thirgens, rear ends, etc etc. I'd be happy to come down and help you out, but I don't think that is the kinda help you are looking for.

 

Doug the engine is mostly put together, All we have to do is make sure everything is tighten down & prime the oil pump & that kind of stuff.

Then prime up the tranny & install the stall conv. match everything up & go.

 

Tammy - If you want help with all that, no problem :-) I would be happy to help you, after Mid August I am pretty free, I may have to go to New York sometime around August 11-16 (in there), and outside of that I don't think I have any solid plans.

Do you need engine hoist, tranny jack, or anything in the tool department?

 

wow the first email i have on this thread lol.

as for tools we have a cherry picker (engine hoist) & all the tools we need we do not have a tranny jack but we are taking the engine & tranny in together.
As for teh date that is ok we dont get back from reno until the 12th & will not have time until later that week or the week after, Dan has UTA that weekend after we get back.

 

Sounds good, just let me know!

 

I've put a few engines together, consequently, I've hardly had any time to be on the boards...let alone anything else! One thing you definatley want to do when you assemble an engine is to make sure you get the proper strech on the rod bolts and main bolts. You can do this by either purchasing a bolt strech checker. This tool goes into the little dimple on the end of the rod bolts. You can do this the old fashon way too. you simply torque the bolts to spec's, let them sit for an hour, untorque them. Do this 3 times and the final time, give an extra 5ft lbs and your done. I have heard this is critical in the life of the engine as it assures the proper bolt strech and if you don'tdo this...well, just think of all the stress and heat an engine goes through and how metals contract/expand.

I wish I had the time to come down, but work has been busy! AND DONT get hurt...chances are it may be me who's comming to fix you down there in Yelm

 

LOL, that sounds like a good reason to get hurt! Hang out for a bit and have a beer

 

lol Yea tell me about it. Hes most likely been to my place before whena friend of ours tried to commit suicide after his wife dumped him for someone else with the crew.

 

Wow... ummm....

 

If I'm not working I'll come down and lend a hand. What's "mostly put together mean?" Short block ready for heads? Rotating assembly reading to go in? I haven't messed with the internals farther than head/cam swap but I'd be happy to help where I can. As with most everyone else I've done engine/trans/rearend/body swaps.

 

Heads are on & torqued down, the oil pan is on but not tighted down the oil pick up * oil pump have to be installed. & primed.
the valves & springs are not set yet either