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How many of you have rebuilt an engine?

Have you rebuilt an engine?

  • yes

    Votes: 150 60.7%

  • no

    Votes: 32 13.0%

  • yes and i do it nekkid

    Votes: 48 19.4%

  • no, but i'm nekkid and that's all that matters.

    Votes: 17 6.9%
  • Total voters
    247
I've been meaning to for years, but haven't. Torn down more than I can count. Closest thing to rebuilding an engine was a used 454 I swapped a cam and heads and gear drive onto, then a week later had to tear it down under dirty conditions and put a different crank and bearings in it. But it doesn't count cause I didn't replace rings. And two rod bearings went a week later. If you saw the conditions of re-assembly you'd understand.

And if you saw my garage cleanliness and tool selection you'd understand why I haven't done a real engine rebuild myself.
 
Here's the rogue's gallery of SBCs that I have overhauled:

3 Chevrolet 5.7s (one in high school, one in 1995, and one in 1998 later completed in xmas 2001, now in my art vehicle)

one Chevrolet 5.0 (from my art vehicle - it went through a lot of Fram oil filters and detonation)

I can also include 3 slushboxes which I have rebuilt:

THM350 and THM350-C
4L60 non-electronic

I am in the process of doing an NP208; as of this writing, I do not have a shop manual.
 
did my first one when I was 17, 2.8L on mom's buick century...has ran great since then (1994). Recently got taken away by mexican goverment in Juarez(El Paso border), niece was hauling ass and hit an electrical pole, they wanted two grand to return the car...I said keep it!! I've seen the car still cruising around there several times when I visit the Juarez Market...some funny ****
 
done several other since...currently working on a 1930 fourbanger out of a '30 ford truck (Model A??) lots of fun!!
 
I rebuilt my 406SBC about 3 years ago. I did everything but the machine work. Punched it out to about 320HP/400+ft lbs.
 
I've rebuilt one 350 and one 1.3L Suzuki engine. Both were fairly easy.

I've done countless 2 and 4 stroke small engines though. I've gotten my time down on a twin cylinder Kohler engine to about 1.5 hours. That's from bare block to fully assembled with all the plastic and metal shrouding, ready to install.
 
yeah, i've done a couple... :whistle:

im in the high 40s with the ones i've rebuilt.

mostly SBCs, although there has been a few BBCs, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, an odd Mopar or two. my latest in the series is a 2.4 Twin Cam that's in my Grand Am. got it all back together, just cant get it to fire for some reason.
 
yup rebuilt a few one 350 from an 81 vette that slung a rod needed sleeving like 5 454 wich was bored over 60 (468) and one bored over 100 (477) that motor ended up getting lots of water and threw the back 3 or 4 pistons and cracked the back of the block out and bent 3 forged peened rods and cracked the crank shaft all pistons were 580. dome :laugh: 12:1 compression ratio race gas :D
 
My first engine rebuild was a Chevy 396 out out of my 1968 Chevy C20 Suburban back in 1977. That was my first Chevy truck. I built the engine in High School auto shop. Since then I have built somewhere in the niegborhood of about 500 engines. I course this is what I did it for a living, and the engines did not belong to me. As far as building my own engines, I would say I built about 30 of them. About 20 of them where Chevys, and the others where a combonation of Kieth Black, Brodix, Joe Pisano, or Brad Anderson aluminum Chrysler Hemi engine blocks and heads for drag racing.
 
i took out and rebuilt a 87 2.8L TBI s10 engine back years ago. There was one word never used to describe that experience, fun. Didnt do the machine work though.
 
to many SBC's to count, and 2 BBC's, 1.5 Honda, etc. But the best was helping a buddy build a 528(?) from a production block Dodge. It was a Pro Mod engine, and they kept missing the tune-up with Nitrous. Hurt many pistons doing that. Sure sounded good though. Best ET was mid 7's, just kinda hard to keep up with 600 ci Chevy's and Fords.
 
To many to remember off the top of my head....the old man got me out in the garage at the age of 12 and pretty much stood around and drank beer and pointed on the first one. Said it would be something good to know.

That was on a Chevy 350. Have done several of those. A few Olds 350's and for a little bit of time I got into import stuff and did a handful of those.
 
I rebuilt a 305 with the use of a book. My dad is pretty much useless at that type of thing so I just went with it. Put the engine in my blazer and ran it for about 3 yrs during highschool. Put like 20 000kms on it I think? I sold it now but as far as I know it still runs. I did, however, have to replace a head gasket cause I used silicone on it the first time and apparently thats a bad thing! lol
 
never a full overhaul at one shot...

I am from the redneck school... get er from the yard and drop it in.. if it taps then fix it...


so I lost 2 pistons 1.5 years ago.... well we tore down the upper part since we didnt know what the problem was.... then replaced 2 pistons.... honed the cylinders..... all back together...

now this weekend... took it all back apart...
got a new cam, vortec heads, vortec intake..... :bow:

I just rebuild portions.. I have a set of new rings and bearings but my father said dont take the rest apart as there is no need to... if the motor is tight then it is good.. DONT F WITH IT!!!!! :haha:
 
ProJunkRacing said:
yeah that is a redneck schooled way to rebuild
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my father and his used to race cars on dirt tracks back in the fiddies....
their car number was 007..... my father said the guy was revvin the piss out of it too.... the guy was amazed how it could handle being beatten on....


" My Kind " will take a motor from the junkyard and race it... just the way it is... maybe do a few things but nothing major... just in our nature...


rule of thumb.. if it aint broke.. dont f with it.....

we did change 2 pistons due to something going down the carb.. when we did that I was going to replace all bearings and rings but my father said the motor is too clean and no scratches in the bad piston cylinders... so dont touch it...

both my uncle and father build motors and they last.... using this rule of thumb... :haha:
 
RootBreaker said:
" My Kind " will take a motor from the junkyard and race it... just the way it is... maybe do a few things but nothing major... just in our nature...
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"your kind" is also the kind that generally finishes in the back of the D-feature on race night.

both my uncle and father build motors and they last.... using this rule of thumb...
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you just said that they ran junkyard stuff, do they build, or run someone else's scrap metal. :screwy:
 
beater_k20 said:
"your kind" is also the kind that generally finishes in the back of the D-feature on race night.

you just said that they ran junkyard stuff, do they build, or run someone else's scrap metal. :screwy:
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Why are you always such an ass? There was no point in your reply whatsoever other than to be a prick...
 
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