Junkyard Dawg

[94Blackbird]

Well, I am introducing my budget build, which will utilize parts that can be found in pretty much any junkyard in America. At least for the big stuff.

The basis will be an Iron headed LT1 out of a B-body car, and I thought I was going to start the day off showing you a bunch of pics of various parts I've sourced going to the machine shop, but alas, it was not to be. The place can't do line boring and they told me some of the other stuff I had was garbage. Plus I didn't really want to pay the prices and the long wait most of the other shops around here are notorious for. So back to square 1...

Until cruising craigs list this morning, I found a motor for 200 bucks. So I will be posting pics of that after I get back from picking it up along with more details on the build and some of the other components I have aquired for it.

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Im surprised a shop couldnt line bore.

[GreenZ96]

I built my car solely off the forums classifieds and local deals. Only thing new is my clutch, pads/rotors and some nitrous fittings from nitrous outlet. Car makes 367/352 NA. It was/has been a lot of fun but very frusterating building a car that way. Good luck with your build!

[94Blackbird]

Update: Due to weather, pics will have to be postponed. However, the 200 dollar motor also came with a new opti and a new water pump. At this point I'm essentially looking at gaskets, piston rings and head studs to finish out this build.

As promised, here is exactly what I am up to. I'm putting vortech 350 dished pistons in an iron head motor and running a slightly thicker than stock head gasket to achieve 8.6 to one compression roughly. This will be followed with about 10 pounds of boost and lots of praying to the opti gods that this motor will hold together.

Now I know some people are going to come on here and ask my why I'm using the iron heads with cast truck pistons to which I have but one reply: why not? It works in theory, now I have to know if it will work in practice.

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They didnt have another motor did they?

[94Blackbird]

unfortunately no. And I have no idea why this guy let this motor go so cheap. I has a brand new water pump and the opti looks like it just came out of the box

[94Blackbird]

Alright, here are some pics of the motor I picked up today and the shinies I have to go with it once it's rebuilt

[94Blackbird]

And some more

[95ImpySS]

Looking good. Wish I could get parts like that down here. Everyone here thinks LT1s are gold. 400-1400 for stock motors

[94Blackbird]

Haha, that's the way they are around here too. I just got really lucky that this guy was desperate to get rid of the motor. 6 months at 200 bucks, and no one showed to claim it.

Main and rod bearings are ordered. Hopefully this week or this weekend, tear down will begin. New valve springs should be here tomorrow and I should be able to install them this weekend sometime.