The engine is back from the machine shop. The head has new exhaust valve seats, eight new valve guides and a shinny valve job to seal everything up.
Cylinders are bored .020 over for new pistons, there was some scoring from the old piston skirts so it all had to go!
The shop put this together for me... but used the old springs, so now I get to change them out. That's okay, I got to verify the valve job and the smoothness of the new guides.
Last one going on, all good now.
Time to plug those stupid air ports, and make sure they stay plugged with some high strength Loctite.
Prepping for paint.
And the other side too. All cleaned.
Primed.
And now it's orange. Yes that is Chevy orange high temp engine paint, but it's a quarter the price of Blaze and probably better engine paint, so there you have it. Next time we will see what color I choose for the valve cover and oil pan, tune in next week.
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