Last time a motor blew (spun the bearing #3 rod)me and my best bud pulled the motor at 8am, finished by 8:45am had motor completly torn down with bare block and head at the machine shop by 9:45. We picked up the entire kit on the way back to the shop( with new crank, 30os pistons, rods, cam, valves, and every gasket for every year 22r. Dropped assembled pistons, valves, cam, and all the goodies for the machine shop off an hour later. Picked every thing up at 4:30pm THAT EVENING, had entire motor assembled, cleaned, painted, installed, trouble shot, driving ,and ready to break in motor by 8:30pm on thursday. Saturday we went to the dunes with 400 miles on the motor and went 5k rpm till noonish and than 8k the rest of the day.

Best part about that trip was my best bud traded that truck away 2 days after that trip for a 90 4skinner on 35's, 5000k miles on entire motor 22r-e, locked frt rear, 4:10's ;and 03 banshee with about 4k in mods. His 87 pu with all of the parts and mods was worth around 7k.

So basically he got 10-12k worth of stuff for a truck with about 7-8 k if you are a lucky bas**rd like him.

that is good...

ok

I'd like to know what kind of magical mystery machine shop you use that returns stuff the same day, and not a week (or two) later.

Also I *personally* liek to really take my time and make sure I did everything carefully and right. But I'm not a mechanic and am just learnin gas I go along... mostly am paranoid of my own stupidity.

Hmm... I'm more curious about the 22re that will turn 8k rpm's and an 87 worth $7k...

Favors my friend, owner of the machine shop's son owed pinky basically with his life. He had a heart attack and pinky is the one who got him to the hospital.

Well final comp on that motor was 11.6:1-ish and if you know Pinky that 8k is pretty understandable(valves floating is his red line), especially with titanium involved. Minor detail there is only 22R, carburated so that is also how....

Also that is the third motor we put together that week and that week end was the last week end before he left for 2 months to work. He put in 371 hours in one month, 36 hours on one stretch with 5 hours sleep than a 21 hour day after that. Once through that he had an 18 hour drive home, the kid is a machine, and i know that is not....um...well...you know.


Parts on the truck as follows
high comp motor
dual-friction CF clutch
turbo tranny
dual t-cases
rear; chromoly ring and pinon, 5.29s, spool
front; SAS, cryomoly ring and pinion, 5.29s, spool, chromoly birfields inner and outter, x over with hydro assist
5" all pro front springs
monster 4" marlin rear springs w/anti wrap
3" body
longfield winch, 10klbs
2" lift shackles
42" tsl super swampers
Perfect straight body with slight oxidation on maroon paint and minor decal pealing/fading
and many other little things.....

overall about 12k invested so 7k sounds resonable, no?



bottom pic is before winch and with factory bumper and fog lights w/o relocation brakets on the bumper, about a week before the motor blew