John has inspired me to update.
Waiting for the engine. There have been stupid little problem all along the way. For instance, the pistons (Ross) came with hardly any room for oil to get to the wrist pins to cool them. Would be ok maybe for a race deal built not a street driver. So Dustin has to machine some room into the pistons. Sending them back would take forever again. Then (of course) Edison informed him his shop would be without power for three days while they are upgrading the feed to his complex.
Ah life.
Here are some pics of where it is. You can see evidence of the battle to balance the crankshaft. You see, me being me, I got this crankshaft for free so I figured what the heck, 1Us are great cranks so I’ll use it. Then I went about offset grinding and nitriding the crank to the tune of 600 bucks (you know that’s about what I could get a Scat 4.250 for right
). Then of course I would rather the crank was internally balanced so I had the boys attempt that. Welllllll on a 1U you’d need a generous amount of Mallory ($$$) to deal with that sooooooooo I bought a Centerforce flywheel and had the boys balance the two together. They got it done and I learned a big lesson that I kinda knew I would but sometimes you just have to teach yourself that you’re an idiot. So I have a free 428 crank that cost about 800/900 bucks. Makes sense right
Anyway you builders and experienced guys have a chuckle at my expense. I deserve it. The fun thing is I get to go up and help (or hinder) when I can.
Here’s some pics. BTW type crank turns like butter. The cam is a bit tougher but I’m thinking hey, good oil pressure. Oh and yes, decided not to use the studs in the rear main because of the time and pain in machining for the extra height of the stud. I’m done with time and want to get it together.