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I gave the tools to my nephew when I was done.

I see you gave him your quality tools lol

best pair of pliers ever and you even get an extra set of eyes to watch your work..

Not to mention free Spanish lessons.

3X00-Modified wrote:Motor is half done... Crank back in, cam in with new bearings and cleaned up the timing cover gasket area on both the block and the cover itself. Getting a degree wrench today so I can finally torque the mains and rods to 100% spec... I've always guessed at the degree amount and its worked before, but I guess it's time to have the right tools.

When Mike torqued down the head on the GTZ he did some strange VooDoo dance, and then placed his hand in the way of the wrench and just "knew" it was good.

I figured it was some ancient torquing technique that was passed from father to son.

I trust him to do it anyway, with my luck I'd get to 89.5/90 degrees and the wrench would implode on me.

Well everything is torqued and angle set... just needs the timing cover and oil pan. I'm actually trying out the 3500 lim valley gaskets this time rather than a thick bead of silicone feels like it will seal pretty good,jus need a dab where they meet the LIMG.

interesting. i was gonna do what you did with the valley gaskets but i wasn't sure if it would hold and really didn't feel like tearing it all apart again just to fix that. had thoughts about drilling the block but never got around to that\.

They are squeezed in there pretty good. Make sure both of the tabs are on the inside and they line up perfectly.. I had one backwards at first and I was all confused about it.

OHHHHHH Purdy!



I also got the last set of Cougar rear shocks that Koni made for the rear of my car... Once in my life I would have never thought I would own ONE pair of Koni shocks... I currently have 3 pairs!

All is going in tonight since the Subie is still on hold...

Oh wow that is nice! What are you going to do with your old set?

That is the old set.

Oops missed a brief somewhere or lost track.

I have a set of TOG's that have smaller runners that I may try sometime, see if they make more low end torque... but that just wasn't going to happen if I want to get to Denver this year.

I'll be watching to see how that comes out.

Man those.look.awesome I can't wait to tear my case apart this winter for engine bay clean up n rebuild