Registered: March 2006 Location: Culver City, CA Posts: 47 users gallery
Finally!! Here's a copy and paste of an email that I sent to a friend right after I finished it:
"This is the 300 V8 out of my Skylark. It's friggin' finally finished: First, the piston company sent the wrong pistons to the machine shop, so the shop couldn't bore the block for about a week. Then, ARP claimed that they didn't make rod bolts for this application, but I found a company in Arizona that specializes in Buick performance parts that had ARP connecting rod bolts for this application. Go figure. That took another couple of days.
Then I had to wait on the cam and lifters, as well as a tapered ring compressor in the correct diameter from Summit Racing. Of course, UPS didn't deliver these parts until after sundown, so installing the pistons and rings had to wait until the next day. Then I had to order the pushrods directly from Iskenderian. Of course, they weren't in stock, so I had to wait about a week for them to be made and then delivered. So, now I'm ready for final assembly, right? Sure...
Yesterday, as I'm snugging down the last for bolts (rocker shaft bolts) on the actual mechanical assembly, two of them strip. Dammit!! I find my Heli-Coil kit, but it's empty. So I get up this morning, go and buy a new Heli-Coil set, and I'm in business.
For what it's worth, I pulled the engine on the 17th of April. Sheesh.
No more oddball engine builds unless I have all of the parts in front of me..."
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you got off easy . i ordered rods 8.5 months later they showed up 3000.00, pistons 4 months another 4 months to have crank neutral balances sleeve all 8 cylinders . payed 450.oo for front hub 5 months later 30 bull sh story's one false shipping # then bought a broach set and had to make my own . two years fiding 6 good carbs ,two months getting blower polished , all custom made pulleys half of mad dogs freeze plugs fit the same with the rod bearings wrong size . one costume efi CPU that has a sensor that only 1000 were made i have to wait till more or manufactured .30thousand dollars invested over 3years building + hope this makes you fell better later Paul
Mad Jack
Registered: March 2006 Location: Culver City, CA Posts: 47
Mon May 29, 2006 11:17pm
Holy sh!t!!! You've been through the ringer WAY worse than I have on this one. Although, I do have another story, but that one's about a Ford that I own. Short version: 11 years, and it still ain't close to finished...
rcull
Registered: January 2005 Location: Canada/Idaho border Posts: 1,423
Sun April 29, 2007 9:55pm
Rating: 10.00
I agree, Mad Jack, you didn't have it so bad! Your motor looks GREAT! Hope to see some pics of the car too...
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