Well guys, What do thease pics say :?:.
Was it a used motor or not or was it abused?
The pics of the cylinder heads still have the blue around the valves and #s on the valves from a sharpie from when H.P.S did them.
Look at the lube still on the outer sides of the lobes and then look at the lube still on the lifters from when I installed them, 2 different lubes.
This motor was removed from the car on a friday night we had to pull the converter with the motor because it was locked up we dropped the pan even before it was on the engine stand and found the bolt in the windage tray.
There were 5 people there when all of this took place.
The next morning I stripped the motor down to the shortblock with out turning the engine over or checking any torque's. The motor was then put on a motor pallet loaded into the back of Mr Douklias truck and then transported to Southern Style Racing Engines where George Pils the owner of SSRE removed the bad rod and checked the rest of the rod bolts where he found all the remaining rod bolts to be hand tight.
I did not claim the rod bolts were loose because I checked them, The owner of SSRE found this out in front of myself, Mr Douklias and all his employee's.
Once I receive the complete breakdown & findings from SSRE I will be more than happy to post them as well.
Yes we did place the order and pay for the motor in early sept 05 but Scot how many months did it take to recieve the engine :?: and that is a point well taken but as you can see this motor is Brand New still .
Notice the surface rust where the water came out of the hole in the block :?: It wiped rite off.
Also look at the cylinder honing.
LIKE I SAID BRAND NEW