I just got back from the shop and took some pictures of my motorless car and built motor, but first here is the story leading up to where I'm at now.
Originally, I was going to use Jomo's built motor but we ran into several problems. All the cp pistons were pretty much destroyed because the motor crankwalked so much when it was in his car. If Joe and I had known that the motor wasn't built well in the first place of course I would have never of purchased it..there goes a huge chunk of my money invested in this project. My mechanic who disassembled the built motor found a thrust washer sitting in the oil pan and large grooves(friction) in the crankshaft from the improperly installed thrust washers and main bearings. So, the only parts that I could salvage were the crower rods. Finally, the only way I could have used the shortblock was to send it to a machine shop to get overbored(cylinder walls were scorred from piston slap), but I don't have the time or money for that. Plus it needed a new crankshaft too. I'm really pist off about this whole situation and I'm not going to name any names, but this motor was doomed from day 1. Oh yea, note that it only had 3500 miles driven when it was built before it was uninstalled and I bought it. I'm not recommending people to get work done at this shop anymore.
Currently the shortblock, crank, bearings, main rods, and thrust washers are in joe's garage. Pictures of those parts coming soon.
Here is a comparsion between my stock piston vs. the cp pistons that were in the built motor. Clearly, the forged pistons banged the cylinder walls pretty violently. I'm proud of how nice the stock pistons and rods look after I was boosting 12psi!!
My guess is a valve floated and tapped this piston and took that chunk out.
Held together strong for 50,000 miles.
Now, on to some good news! Since I didn't use the motor from Joe, the only thing left to do was use my stock motor. So far, everything has gone smoothly and quickly too. The cylinder head is being assembled, however, they ran into a problem because the crower cams need to be shimmed. These cams have a much much larger lift than the stock cams.
Here is a pic of my car....haha, she is friends with the van.
Built motor waiting to be installed(cabpatch)
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