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FlyingW 08-31-2010 09:35 PM

WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
So I saw these pictures on a friends facebook page.. and just thought it was crazy. How many problems can you spot in these pictures?


http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n99/FITFLA/Tony6.jpg


http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n99/FITFLA/Tony4.jpg


http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n99/FITFLA/Tony3.jpg

Bobby Lundholm 08-31-2010 09:39 PM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
Besides the lack of beer cans I don't see anything else. Haha

bubski 08-31-2010 09:47 PM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
timing cover on table oil pan on not too easy to install with oil pan on

Doug Blackley 08-31-2010 10:18 PM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
Interesting set up on stand. Bet that'll be easy to rotate lol.

peteprostock 09-01-2010 12:24 AM

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last photo is a different intake manifold & gone fromm red paint to a real chev orange

Mark Yacavone 09-01-2010 01:27 AM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
Maybe it was just a cam change and re-paint . Timing cover might have been replaced with a chrome one.

reera 09-01-2010 06:32 AM

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valves haven't been adjusted yet. they all appear to be closed.

FlyingW 09-01-2010 06:38 AM

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Acually -

It started as Chevy Orange and they ended up painting it RED!!! LOL

Quote:

Originally Posted by peteprostock (Post 207096)
last photo is a different intake manifold & gone fromm red paint to a real chev orange


copperhead 09-01-2010 07:54 AM

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Damn, I had a brain fade.

Mark Markow 09-01-2010 09:34 AM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
looks ok to me . as far as i know the distributor still goes in the back on a chevy.


Quote:

Originally Posted by copperhead (Post 207111)
Intake manifold on backwards.


Mike Taylor 3601 09-01-2010 11:28 AM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
I bet they completely rebuilt except for rings and bearings. we use that saying all the time thought it would good time to say it here.
One of the other favorites is, I don't understand what happened it was running good till the engine blew up.
Another one is when some one sees a car that got ragged out and they say I bet that was a nice car at one time. we say nope it came out brand new like that.
how many problems are we supposed to find from picture?
Only thing I spot instantly is with mobile homes in back ground they are in danger of tornado hitting them.
Only thing I saw was intake gaskets on table with intake on but they could've been extras
and #6 intake valve guide looks a little loose.
Mike Taylor3601

Jack McCarthy 09-01-2010 01:10 PM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
much much cleaner setup than my last 14 NHRA teardowns...
and im betting my investment was bigger in the bullet.

hey at least someone is still working on thier own stuff in thier own garage...that is a days gone by situation... hell most all nhra stockers are built by a "pro cheater" and shipped.

captain jack

and yes need 20-30 empty beer cans to complete the picture

FED 387 09-01-2010 01:16 PM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
Generator in the pick up in background for electricity there??? Comp

Harry 6674 09-01-2010 01:32 PM

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So whats wrong? Point them out. Or have you guys never seen an engine on a stand before or is this a private joke.

FlyingW 09-01-2010 01:52 PM

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Well we were actually just in amazement that the intake is totally open, and they are working on the engine OUTSIDE!!!

Also the can of spray paint with the engine open was also a bit concerning.. the front is totally open with the timing cover off.. LETS PAINT... LOL

charliep 09-01-2010 01:56 PM

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Engine stand in wrong bolt hole on block

mtkawboy 09-01-2010 01:56 PM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
Surgically clean egine building room. A little wind blown sand should help seal the rings. No covering carb hole on intake is a good place to drop bolts into also. Ive seen worse, like popup psitons installed upside down. Heads dont fit too well like that. One thing I will say for them is when someone asks them a question about the motor the answer wont start with "well my engine builder said ".

FlyingW 09-01-2010 03:23 PM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
That is about the same thing that we were thinking... as engine builders our selves, we gasped..lol we immediatly start thinking about how to get the dirt out of it... lol
Yes, they may be able to tell you about the motor, but I know this group personally, and WOW!! I will be surprised if this engine runs.. they ask".. What do you mean I have to PRIME IT?..."


Quote:

Originally Posted by mtkawboy (Post 207170)
Surgically clean egine building room. A little wind blown sand should help seal the rings. No covering carb hole on intake is a good place to drop bolts into also. Ive seen worse, like popup psitons installed upside down. Heads dont fit too well like that. One thing I will say for them is when someone asks them a question about the motor the answer wont start with "well my engine builder said ".


CycloneFE 09-01-2010 04:52 PM

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I know we would all want a sterile environment, me especially. Back in my High School days in the early 70's I had a neighbor with, what I thought was the coolest 55 Chevy, looking back it was a POS, and I would ride to school with him against my parents wishes. It was fairly fast and his dad was a local legend at the circle track with nail head Buicks, but one day it was faster than normal and I asked him what he did. He and his brothers got drunk(already mentioned) and put a motor together with what ever they had in the garage(dirt floor) that would fit together and boy did it fly. It only lasted about a month, but that is all they could afford or do and they did it. Is it wrong? Not for them.

FlyingW 09-01-2010 10:19 PM

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Notice - IT HAS MADE IT IN THE CAR...




http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n..._1797648_n.jpg

cad 09-01-2010 11:11 PM

Re: WOW!!! Amazing!!!
 
Pretty darn clean looking setup. I'd run the fuel line as far away from the hot water pump as possible rather than behind it.

Geerhead55 09-02-2010 12:18 AM

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Is that a Wal-Mart rotor on the distributor?
Danny Durham

FrankChastain 09-02-2010 06:57 AM

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Looks like a street set up. Probably last 300,000 miles doing it that way. If they were in a engine building set up probably wouldn't even crank...

FrankChastain

FlyingW 09-02-2010 02:43 PM

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That was the first thing I saw too!!! Well that should get the fuel up to a GREAT operating TEMP!!!! LOL



Quote:

Originally Posted by cad (Post 207301)
Pretty darn clean looking setup. I'd run the fuel line as far away from the hot water pump as possible rather than behind it.



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