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Stomis' 94 Street Truck - Snail Trail

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when i built my 406, i had one of those adjustable ring compressors and it made installing the rings so miserable. I told myself next engine i build i will buy a tapered one. Such a pain in the butt :doah:
 
wage92 said:
when i built my 406, i had one of those adjustable ring compressors and it made installing the rings so miserable. I told myself next engine i build i will buy a tapered one. Such a pain in the butt :doah:
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After I broke a cast secondary ring trying to tap the cylinder in I went ballistic. When I told the wife I was going to put the motor together and needed her help she said "No Im not going there, you were whipping **** against the wall last time." I replied not this time. Now that the $11 ring compressor cost me $110 for a second set of rings I decided to spend the $25 and buy the correct tool. It was a piece of cake. Took a little over and hour.

Im hoping to get the oil pump on today and the windage tray and oil pan.
 
I held off on doing much today. Since my comp timing set is adjustable 8 ways I contacted comp to ask what they would recommend given my cam and application so Im waiting on a response.

Going to disassemble and port the oil pump before I put it on.
 
I decided to skip porting the oil pump. Was just time to invest that was really unnecessary TBH. I did shim the relief valve for 75psi rather than 65psi though. Got that bolted up, windage tray and pickup tube on. Oil pan is soaking in thinner to clean it out.
 
Well this stage of the game is done... Im kinda waiting on basically dropping a **** ton of money for parts and bolting the **** together now. Motor is buttoned up with all the covers. I need heads, rockers, intake now.

I measured the piston at TDC and found that my pistons are .0055 in the hole at TDC. Which means that in order to get that good quench I need to find a .035 headgasket. Considering the fact that I cant even find a headgasket for .030 over 5.3s I dont think thats gonna happen. I need to find out how much room there is around the stock gaskets. Looks like Im gonna be stuck with .041 compressed gaskets and about 11.15:1 compression.




Looks like Im going with .045 LS1 gaskets as Trickflow doesnt seem to recommend running 5.3 bore gaskets with the heads Im buying. Quench is gonna be a little looser than I wanted at .051





Der never mind. Cometics website has all different sizes. Dont bother shopping head gaskets on summit FYI!

Im going to use 3.91 bore LS1/LS6 MLS head gaskets with .036 compressed for a .0415 squish and 11.28:1
 
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Hey my buddy has a set of bran new comp gold rockers he's wanting to sell. Depending in what your looking for I can get you his info
 
If the new ls head gaskets follow suit to the gen i sbc you can use a regular head gasket you dont need to find one that is 30 over, the stock ones are big enough to use with a bigger bore.
 
wage92 said:
If the new ls head gaskets follow suit to the gen i sbc you can use a regular head gasket you dont need to find one that is 30 over, the stock ones are big enough to use with a bigger bore.
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I suspect that is the case but regardless the head manufacturer recommends the LS1/LS6 bore head gasket. From what reading Ive done you are suppose to choose your gasket based on the head not the bore.
 
No, I have a 6.0 with the xr259hr cam and I want to put in 1.8:1 rockers as well. Mine will be a bigger "ci" motor but It's close build. Well now typing this and actually reading it, it makes no sense at all. :haha:
 
Babaganoosh said:
No, I have a 6.0 with the xr259hr cam and I want to put in 1.8:1 rockers as well. Mine will be a bigger "ci" motor but It's close build. Well now typing this and actually reading it, it makes no sense at all. :haha:
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:haha:

I think you meant "Hey Im building an LS motor with 1.8 rockers too"

lol :thumb:
 
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