TRY MEH'S 2000 ws6 build

[gols1go]

You make me want to stop all the things I have going and put my Bird together right now!!! I know how it can be with work along with everything else slowing down the progress. But look at it this way, if you could work on the car all day because you were not working a 9-5, you'd be saying "man I could sure use some more dough to finish this project." I guess its 6 of one and half dozen of the other.

[TRY MEH]

Make sure to post some pics of the progress you make today!

havent updated in awhile. been pretty busy a lot of work to do alone with no lift. been using all my free time to work on this hate when my work asks me to stay after even though i could use the $$ lol

heres some updates though!
pulled the car in garage right after meet and greet and decided its time to pull the motor.
next day i pulled the motor and man! this thing was really dirty.. it took me awhile to clean all the brackets off and get ready to install on my other motor
ordered my clutch plate in
drilled my intake installed map sensor to front.
cleaned up k-member spray bombed rusty areas with rust eliminator and finished rest off with some black engine paint. honestly was a pretty clean k member since so much oil was on it.
put wire harness on and started to route everything.
headers are just for looks at the moment i still need to get gaskets and some new plugs untill i install.
traded my chrome Zr1's to a guy i met a meet and greet "kevin" for some torque thris II's 315's rear (: "i added $ "


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[gols1go]

Make sure to post some pics of the progress you make today!

[TRY MEH]

they arrived now just need some nice weather... wtf is up with the weather lately!!
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[TRY MEH]

i can not go any further until i pull my ls1 motor i need the brackets and odds and ends from it...
i will be doing that very shortly!! pretty excited!
waiting to put my intake on until its going in.
the harmonic balancer is not on all the way im just going to put it on when its in the car it dont feel to safe on the engine stand to torque it down.
i ordered some oem ram air stickers for my hood also just waiting for them to arrive

hard to get much done seems to be so many family get to gathers and partys lately... lol


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[hoogiesngrinderz]

I love my 10 dollar torque angle gauge!

[TRY MEH]

cool pics man thanks for sharing. gotta say you put quotation marks on some of the most random sentences ever lol.. ive never seen anything like it before.

thanks
bad habit lol idk why i use quotation marks so much need to start using parentheses (LOL) =]

Did you use the stock head bolts?

stock head bolts yes but they are new.

Did you put the protractor so the center was lined up with the rocker stud, or did you do it exactly as it's pictured? If you didn't have the center of the protractor lined up with the center of the rocker stud your angles are going to be off.....

i centered it with a ruler actually and made a mark on the head were to turn it to

most writeups have you torque to the correct spec then draw a verticle or horizontal line and eyeball the angle from there, looks like hes just using it as a reference point, maybe geometry wasn't a strong suit for him in school lol.

exactly!! but i was good at geometry, just wanted to be more accurate feel safer i guess lol been to cautious with this build to expensive to make a mistake..

Lookin good! My only recommedation is to upgrade the rocker trunions while the engine is out for cheap insurance

i cleaned mine up they seem to me in near new shape should be good for the build.

I prefer one of these....

didnt know there was a tool like that. would have loved to use something like that

[sman]

I prefer one of these....

[1999Black_Z28]

Lookin good! My only recommedation is to upgrade the rocker trunions while the engine is out for cheap insurance

[DETROITMUSCLE]

most writeups have you torque to the correct spec then draw a verticle or horizontal line and eyeball the angle from there, looks like hes just using it as a reference point, maybe geometry wasn't a strong suit for him in school lol.

[meissen]

Did you put the protractor so the center was lined up with the rocker stud, or did you do it exactly as it's pictured? If you didn't have the center of the protractor lined up with the center of the rocker stud your angles are going to be off.....

[Boost Addict]

Did you use the stock head bolts?

[00firebird]

slowly getting there....
my headers are jet hot coated and had some rust on the bottom of them so i clean it up with a wire wheel and painted it with silica ceramic silver "pretty good match"
got the car out cleaned it up to drive it for a bit "plating it this week to enjoy it before i tare it apart"

ported the heads "pic of mixing cup how much i took out from what i could swipe up it was everywhere"
lapped the valves
put the springs in place
cleaned all burr's off and old gasket material from the block and the heads.

ready to install the heads

cool pics man thanks for sharing. gotta say you put quotation marks on some of the most random sentences ever lol.. ive never seen anything like it before.

[TRY MEH]

heads are torqued to spec!
installed push rods and rockers.

LOL at how i did the degree torque's!
but seemed to work great

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[TRY MEH]

Making good progress! Keep the updates rollin'

thanks man! can you please remove the pics though its to many pics to quote =/ lol
hard to update been busy =( seems to be alot of birthdays and BBQ's lately haha