I dropped a piston....

And now its ruined(collasped the skirt 0.005), The unfortunate part is that they couldnt even Find one that was anywhere near the proper weight(736grams), The next question is what do I Do now?

Summit racing brand hyperteutectic pistons, 89.00 plus shipping and handling. It'll take all the money that I was planning on using to finsh my valve train but Is Critical to finishing my engine. The good news is If i want to lighten and balence my connecting rods I'll be able to do so since Im putting a fresh set of pistons on.

parts came today

keepers, springs, retainers, everything a good cam needs to perform. in addtion a timing set to tie the crank and cam together grand total 175 bucks of work-study money. only 425 left to earn and spend and 200 of it is sitting in my wallet waiting to be transfered onto the wired card and ordered with.



This Is the basic assembly you look at under the vlave covers, the only thing its missing is the valve itself and the cylider head(I'll show ya later after the long week-end)

I havent been slacking

I've just had a billion things to do and almost no time to do them in. between putting new valve seats in my clinder heads, port and bowl work, and anal retentative cleanlyness for all the parts. On top of that Having all the required lab and theory work for the class which entails several hundred hours of job sheets and Engine R/R in addition to the problems that your average Technician will face with ordering and aquiring parts, fitment of parts. I Am into the Next class with my own personal engine project, Which willbe finished as soon as I order in the last of the parts required(roughly $250 left to order). Then the slammin and jammin starts and stops and starts again with all the blue-printing phases nessscary to make the level of performance I'm looking for and the longevity of the engine demanded in this industry. Ok now that the long long introduction is over its time for the pictures, Hurray for pictures

This picture is of one of my cylinder heads waiting for me to finish the new valve seats(It take on average 3 turns of a 45 degree angle cutter). At this point I was just waiting for the valve springs keepers and retainers to arrive from summit racing(shipping out of navada)

The next photo is of the engine block after i pulled it out of the jet cleaner and dried it off. It wasnt too badly dirty, but ever bit of dort on the outside can an often will get into the inside and cause Havoc with both bearings and machined surfaces, If you block comes back from rebuilding still covered in dirt, dont expect much.

This picture is some of the port work that was done, I got a little grinder happy and dont have a before picture but believe me I took a ton of material out of the ports and upper intake

My pistons are waiting to get back in the bores and get some fire put to them, Speed thou art my mistress.