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Wow zzk. Not everyone is open minded. Also update on my engine situation. Took the block to the machine shop and got everything checked for cracks and rebored to .0020 over because 2 of the bores weren't centered properly. Got my crank magnafluxed and Checked and it's good. I also sent my crank off for shotpeening and nitride treatment because I'm insane. Not gonna use the connecting rods I got from my buddy. I got a set of forged ones on the way as well as a set of forged pistons. I got a hell of a deal on em so I'm happy. I have officially lost my mind because I'm piecing together a nitrous setup to. I'm also borrowing some chip burning equipment for my pcm so I can custom tune it. Got an off the shelf grind cam for it to. All new bearing throughout and I hand ported my heads and having new bigger valves put in. Also ported the intake manifold. Yep. I've lost it. See this is what happens when my bank lets me take out a loan. Plus I got another job. What a fucking week huh! Got a job and spent 2000 dollars I don't have! That's alright though. I've got some s**t sitting around I'm gonna sell cause I have no use for it anymore. I can't wait for my new little engine to be done. I've gotta get a sticker now that says bottle fed and put it on my bumper! lol.

Epdate: So just got my connecting rods and pistons and waiting on my camshaft and crank. The crank is supposed to be done friday and be back by Wednesday next week. I borrowed a crankshaft from someone to test and make sure my rotating assembly is gonna be good so I don't have to modify the block because these new rods are a little big. My heads are back to from the machine shop and they are the cleanest I've ever seen them. Lmao. Got most of my hardware together and crossing my fingers I'll have it together tonight so I can check tolerances and make sure my new rods aren't contacting the block anywhere other wise I'm gonna have to break out the dremel and put notches in the block. Which I'm hoping I don't. Other that that it's looking pretty good right now. Just waiting for my crankshaft to get back from treatment and my cam to come in which should be here monday. Using the old cam for now to test fitment and all that. Making sure my valves aren't gonna kiss the pistons. But I'll have to recheck that when I get the new cam in next week. I've got some new 1.6:1 rockers for it and some nasty valve springs rated to about 7500 rpm which I'm only going to run 5500 tops but just for piece of mind. Cross my fingers I'll have it running and in my truck next week. And then maybe in a couple weeks after everything is broken in I'll throw a bottle on it.

Update #2: So I got the engine together with the borrowed crank and everything and fitted new cam bearings and all new bearings. Tested the clearances on the new rods and had to put 2 notches in the block but nothing I couldn't handle with a dremel and some sandpaper. Threw the heads on with some pos headgaskets and the oil pan threw some oil in it and fired it up outside the truck and man does it sound beautiful. I've had it open header before but it sounds a lot different now. Probably because of the bumped compression ratio and ported heads with new intake and exhaust valves that are a little bit bigger. My cam also came in today and my crank shipped out this morning. I'm fucking excited. I pulled the oil pan back off and the heads and getting the new set of headgaskets tomorrow hopefully. I also threw some ARP headstuds on it. I'm crossing my fingers everything is back in the truck next week. I also got my chip tuning stuff today for my pcm.

Update #3: Got my crank in today and checked all the tolerances and it checks out and got my cam and everything so I'll be throwing it together manana.

Update #4: I'm beating my head against the wall.... I've got everything together and all tolerances check out and everything is in the truck. Fuel, spark and air. Fucking thing won't start.... It won't even run on starting fluid. Did compression test on all 6 cylinders to make sure I didn't **** up somewhere but getting what I am expecting for pressure. Made sure there is plenty of vacuum on the intake side so it doesn't have an intake leak. I don't get it. When I had the other crank and cam in it fired right up. Timing is right. Maybe distributor is being stupid.... i'll figure it out later. I'm just happy it's all together and in the truck.

And as of yesterday my truck is now a 5 cylinder! Put a hole straight through the side of the block. Fucking oil spewed everywhere. Connecting rod failure on cylinder 3. No big deal though. Besides the fact that I don't have a job but I got another block I'm picking up today and should have it all swapped over by monday. Wish I had a camera to show you the carnage. I'm crossing my fingers hoping I can use the crank and pistons from the old block. But it's not seized so thats a good sign. Funny thing was I actually drove it home. Granted only 5 blocks but still. I haven't pulled the engine as of yet so I don't know for sure what internally I can salvage. If I have to I can go pick up a set of pistons pretty cheap. I did manage to get my hands on a set of rods for cheap that a buddy had. My main worry is the crank. I'm also hoping I don't have to machine the block but it is a fresh pull out of an S10 with 90000 miles. Just minus internals. But I'm not complaining. Free block!
Update:
So I tore down the block last night and I can reuse the crank but the pistons not so much.... One has cracks in it and 2 others have torn up skirts. I checked the bore size against the piston size and it's way out of tolerance. It's supposed to be within like .0025 inches but it's like .0095. Hence why the skirts on 2 pistons are scored pretty nasty. The bore difference throughout the engine is all over the place. I'm wondering who the hell rebuilt this engine cause it sure as **** was a hack job. I am just kind of confused as to why I didn't hear any piston slap or anything of that nature. But good news is I get paid tomorrow from a job I did last week so I'll have 500 dollars to get a new set of pistons. Upon measuring the new block I'm gonna have to hone it and get oversize pistons but no biggie. Gonna order a set of 350 hyper-eutectic pistons that are .0010 over stock bore since that's what I'm gonna run for the new bore size. New block is pretty clean and all that. I'm gonna bump up compression a little I think and do a mild build. Hopefully I'll have the bastard back on the road next week. Was hoping for a simple swap of parts and stuff and just throw it together and throw it in the truck but I guess not. Thankfully I got my old plymouth running and driving decent so I can use that for now.

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Old news but still. Also C4EVA has dumped an Xbox one retail game. No exploits at this time that I know of. Will update as progress rolls out.

Yeah ouch. Also sold the WRX. 9500 lol. I'm happy for now. I've got a few bucks to put towards bills. And today I randomly got a letter from workers comp instead of a check saying along the lines of you're done with treatment so you're fucked. So that tweaked me good as I'm looking at another 6 weeks of therapy. I'm gonna have fun chewing ass tomorrow on the phone. If they refuse to send me comp checks I'm just gonna lawyer up. I'm not even gonna play games with these people as I've already been dealing with games for 3 months and I'm tired of them randomly sending me checks or some excuse if they don't. The best one so far. "well we were told you were released back to work last week." that was a month ago. Fucking private companies. I swear. 

Damn man =( sounds like some hard times right now (I'm Sorry) I know there's nothing I can do to help but I wish I could. hopefully you can have the 15/hr job plus be able to fix cars on the side.

I'm working at a store and close to quitting, they keep lowering hours and now I'm down to 20 hours a week. It's a big hit in the face when I work my ass off all week and I get a check for $120, On top of medical bills stacking up.

Also I now own a subaru WRX. Picked it up for 2000 wholesale as a trade in from a dealer and it had a blown headgasket. I put a new transmission in it and exhaust and fixed the headgaskets. It's got a mildly bigger turbo and a set of equal length turbo headers. New Sti intake and Big ass intercooler. New brakes on all 4 corners and new coilovers on all 4 corners. Short throw shifter and a piggyback pcm for tuning. I'm running STI injectors with the bigger turbo and some meaty 235 goodyear RSAs on all 4 corners. I'm currently talking to someone who wants to give me 9000 for it and I might just take it. Because I only have 4000 total into it total with cost of car. Got to love knowing people in the tuner scene that know people that have parts laying around! I think I'm just going to sell it because insurance is expensive!

Well it's not what I did today. It happened a couple months ago but still hurts. Several torn muscles in my shoulder and 4 cortisone shots later. 8 weeks of therapy from hell.... Still can't go back to work yet.... And besides I won't even have the same job anymore. I'll be stuck working with customers and detailing cars.... **** people and their shiny ass brand new pieces of s**t. I'll probably end up being there like one or two weeks before I get laid off again. I was tech helper/lubetech/shop *female dog* but that's down the tubes. This is why I hate working for profiteering pricks that hate people who get injured on the job. Ohh so fun dealing with the harassment and *female dog* fit storms I get for fucking up my shoulder on accident.... I'm probably going to end up going back to what I know secondary. That being corrections. Working in a jail.... That sucks to but lots more money. I'll be making 15/hr if I go back which would be nice but long hours..... Yep. My life consists of sitting at my computer for 10-12 hours per day watching porn and netflix. Sometimes I get some diablo 3 time in there. I have officially given up on ever making a decent chunk of change doing what I love to do which is working on cars. Yeah. Ever heard of a tech helper/lubetech/shop *female dog* getting paid minimum wage when I end up doing half of everyones work? Yeah. That would be me. And I can't really afford to get hired as I told my last 3 bosses they could go suck a big fat donkey dick. Workers comp doesn't pay s**t yo! 190 a week is not really anything to live on... Good thing I moved back in with my grandmother and shes on vacation! I have all but become tired of this jumping through hoops bullshit. 

That's really cool, I wish I could say I'm doing a job I love but sadly no... But my life is still 100 times better then it once was and for once in my life I'm truly happy.

 

I'm doing the musician thing full time now. I'm playing some jazz in colorado for a band that hired me. It's a really fulfilling experience for me and is getting me union pay so I'm living quite comfortably, enjoying the 10,000ft altitude and summer days that don't go above 75 degrees.

I wish more people would post on here. It would be nice to get this place back up and going... Owell time moves on i guess.

If anyone does look on here, What are you all up to!!!