Well after I found metal in the oil after 1000 miles, I decided to rip it apart and find out why. What I found was the inner dampner spring on the valve spring was rubbing the big part of the stock valve guide. Almost all of the inner springs were broke, and this cut up the valve seals real bad also. Anyway, I bought some cutters from Jegs, and cut my seats bigger, and the guides smaller and installed GMPP 1.39" valve springs, shimmed everything to within .010" of each other and put the engine back together. I am hoping to have it running by the beginning of next week. Lesson learned--cut the guides on Vortec heads!!

 

that's one empty engine bay, lol looks good though

 

that motor ought to kick rear with those heads and the comp xe282hr.......

how hard was it doing away with the harness?

 

I am hoping with the new springs, and bigger headers, it will rev a little more. With the old stuff, it did run very good. I started to get traction once I unhooked the front sway bar. The harness wasn't bad. The hard part was re-wiring it. GM made the harness to go from A-C-D-then to point B. THis made a lot of extra wiring that wasn't needed. After that was cut out, and I put in all I needed, it was much cleaner.