derf

I just finished rebuilding my engine. Check out my website with pics and info:
http://mysite.verizon.net/fpopov/

xcodegt

Nice. Have you driven it yet?

jpmustanggt

Awesome writeup man! Good work!

derf

Yes, Ifinished it last weekend and have been driving it all this weekend. The only problem that I had at first start-up was that the fuel rail wasn't seated properly on one of the fuel injectors so it leaked fuel past the injector o-ring. I reseated the rail and everything has been good so far.

xcodegt

can you tell a difference with the head porting/polishing? I'm not too far away from tearing down my engine, so I'm just curioius. did you do the porting yourself or did you take them to a machine shop?

derf

I did the porting myself and had a machine shop milled the surface of the heads. It has a lot of power! I think it's a combinathion of all things...the porting, a little higher compression, new rings, new sparkplugs...etc. I'm still taking it easy on the engine so that everything can break-in properly.

NeedStangSpeed

Nice page and write up, do you think it would of been easier to drop the engine out the bottom of the car? Just wondering hope to be getting invovled in a similar project soon.

BuzzCut

I would have gone with different piston pin retainers. Those don't belong in any motor in my opinion.

StealthGT2V

nice write up

derf

Thanks to everyone for checking out my page and signing my guestbook. Here are a few answers to the questions that were asked...
I spent about $1200 for the parts andanother $150 for machine work. That may sound like cheep for machine work but all I needed was crank journal clean up ($35), heads milled, ($80), and flywheel resurfaced ($35). I ported the heads and honed the cylinder bores myself.
The retainer clips for the pins that I used came with the federal mogul piston set. I agree, they do look cheepbut they felt very solid in the piston pin groves.
At 200 mileson the rebuilt engineit's running well so far.