As you all know, I have my 79 Vette in the shop getting the damage fixed on the front end where I backed into it (I know, I keep hearing about it!). Anyway, while it was in the shop I asked Lew to check the engine as it had been using a little oil on long trips. I was expecting a bad or leaking seal or something. Lew said he would do a leakdown test. Imagine my surprise when he called and said #1 cylinder had 80 percent leakdown and # 3 had 60 percecnt.
. Lew said he would check and see if maybe a few rings were bad. The next day he called and said my engine was NOT the original as I had thought. It was a "taskmaster" engine built out of parts not for production engines. They made the bearings to fit! Not only that, but he said this engine had to have at least 150,00 miles on it! Any problem can be an opportunity. so Lew told me has an engine that he built for his Chevelle that he was replacing with a bigger one, so he would let me have the one that was in it. It has 2,000 miles on it and all new parts. 4 bolt main, steel crank, new heads and all. The only things he's doing to it is putting in a milder cam and he has a factory aluminum intake to take the place of my iron one. He says the setup should be producing about 400 hp in my application. Always wanted more power, just not right now. Here we go!!!!!
Barry
|UPDATED|12/16/2011 3:52:09 PM (AZT)|/UPDATED|
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