I went to bed a happy man last night
 

So about a year ago I bought an lS block, an ITR head and an LS tranny,anticipating to put it in my hatch. Well its been a long road but last night finally made me happy.
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My build started out as High compression, the block I hads bought had JE 12.5-1 Compression pistons and shotpeened LS rods. Well I brought that to a machine shop to get it checked out and I was told I need to bore it .050 over... so that block was useless. I decided to try a different route and go b20 vtec, I brought that to a machine shop to have it checked out and they told me two of the headbolts were stripped and they wouldnt touch it since the threads started so deep in the block.so that block was out fo the question. I bought another bare LS block and it was solid, so I decided to go with that. But by now I had waited so long, I had changed my mind. NA is slow. so I bought eagles/Wisecos. Well I took it to the machine shop and they told me the crank was scarred. ----. I went back to the old block hoping that crank was good. 10 months later my engine is finally in my car. After a long road of sourcing random nuts and bolts I have everything I need. I didn't sleep a wink last night, Goal is to get it started today.

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Nice better be a fat turbo.

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I went to bed a happy man last night to, but it wasnt because of my car ;)

lol shits look good though at least its coming along

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good ---- man def keep us updated ..

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did you have the machine shop assemble it ?

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GT3076R, I would put all my turbo stuff on ASAP, but A. I wanna get all think kins worked out first, and B. doing ---- the"right way" gets super expensive.

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Yeah, Bore and Assembly was 160 bucks, cant go wrong...

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Nice, good luck with the build and keep us posted.


JP

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well you had to have them bore it, no complaints there. but i wouldnt feel like a car guy if i payed someone else to assemble my motor. that way you can say you built the car yourself not just pay some one to do it. like in import magazines where they say "john doe really knows how to build imports so he went to larry tompson from import builders to get it done right." well that means john doe dont know ---- if he took it somewhere else. but for $160 its a good deal but i would never do it

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I've neverput rods/pistons into a motor myself... It scares the ---- out of me that my 800+ dollars worth of internals could be messed up if I ---- up. I put the head on, put the cams int etc.