| Re: I'm this >< close....to giving up |
Subject: Re: I'm this >< close....to giving up by Livin_the_dream on 2008/6/4 1:00:58 Here's my .02  OK so Murphy works for you a little more than me. First I agree with LD85 you should be able to get a short block done relatively cheap. Tell them its for your Nova hot rod, cause on the bottom end its JUST a 350 Chevy small block- avoid the Vette tax. The shop I go to usually will assemble the short block for a reasonable price with some kind of guarantee. Now all this focus on the motor As you have seen while relative low miles age can have an effect on the moving parts .Here I am making a huge assumption as you never stated as far as I read if the spun bearing was on the cylinder you had worked on at the shop. I am thinking it was not or you would be having them do this work because of their mistake. I did read you were doing some WOT testing - no problem with that. Now think forward or in this case rearward to the tranny whether an A4 or manual still has bearings etc.U joints? rear end? May want to think about a rebuild on it now rather than later. At some point your new found horsepower is going to find the weak link and trust me that tranny is going to be much easier to remove with the motor out than after it is replaced. I am doing this with another car right now the rear can be done later but I would give some serious thought into the tranny Proactive maintenance is what I call it. I am peicing together some mods for my Vette but have decided to do the motor and Tranny at the same time. On a side note I have been reading a thread about using a .001 feeler gage to set zero clearance on push rods. Seems like a good idea tighten until feeler gets tight add 3/4 turn. May want to try that and let us know how it works! Whatever you do I am looking forward to the posts about your project. Good Luck Kevin  :thumbright: |
