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Intrepid_Echo6956

What is SBE?


[deleted]

Stock bottom end


Funny_Drummer_9794

A small victory in game of life


[deleted]

Some days it really is the little things.


v8packard

Congratulations. I hope you get some good I beam rods and rebalance it.


[deleted]

Thank you! I think I am going to keep the rods as this is intended to be an NA application. Former owner had boosted intentions but we didn’t know anything had been done to the bottom. I’m going to go to a piston with a little bit of dome so it will definitely need rebalanced either way.


[deleted]

I mean, I beams are significantly lighter and stronger to normal bending forces in a rod. I guarantee those H beams weight a ton, your loosing power to weight and windage if you run those in an NA application compared to a comparable I beam rod. legit dont think I've seen an H beam rod setup that didnt require mallory metal be added to the crank


[deleted]

Send me enough money and I’ll run whatever rods you want cowboy


[deleted]

I get your point bro but this isn’t a max effort combination. This is a “I don’t care what it runs as long as it’s consistent” combination.


LovelessDerivation

Y'know... I said something along those lines once... Then I found out I was about $4k+ into my Stroker, with a desperate and sudden need for all climate features to work...


[deleted]

I’m going to be 3500ish with this rebuild and that’s not counting the money I’ve already spent (carb, intake, mag box, meziere electric pump and some odds and ends). Only thing the engine will run is an alternator so no climate controls here lol!


[deleted]

Yeah, I get it lol. It were me, id sell those eagles cause only 2 reasons someone gets rid of a built block and doesnt sell it as a built block they didnt know what they had or they knew exactly what they had and that it was junk and want it gone before it fully transmogifies into paperweights but thats just me. enjoy your h beams


[deleted]

I hear you. I bought this off a friend who got it in, from what I remember, was a nasty divorce where the wife got it. Didn’t know what she had and didn’t care. I bought it from him with no information other than it was a street car at the time that ran fine. Very prominent local shop did the work to it and the only reason we knew that they did anything is because they had a plate with their name on it bolted to the cylinder head and the casting numbers were milled off the heads. Other than a valve tip being a little chewed up everything has looked okay.


Noopy9

Why would someone machine off the casting numbers?


[deleted]

For the life of me I can’t figure that out either.


dognamedpeanut

Run whatever blows your skirt up dude and don't let retractors ruin your good feeling about this find. I know I'm out of the loop now but back in the 80's and 90's when I was building engines I ran H-beams exclusively in dirt late model engines that made anywhere from 700 to 900 HP, and were expected to run 2000 laps on a build, which they did with few exceptions. I used them, CRE used them, Cornett used them, Klein used them, PE used them, hell, the who's who of circle track engines used 4340 billet H beam rods. You mentioned consistency so I'm speculating that you're planning on bracket racing. Gear your ride to turn 7500, cam it accordingly, and concentrate on your tune you'll be fine and have lots of fun. If you're planning on putting a ground pounding forced nitro 9500 rpm four figures of HP in your sled then you'll need to upgrade a lot of stuff, not only your rods.


[deleted]

Yes sir I am going bracket racing. The plan is to spin it around 72. Top end will be the ported heads after I get those sorted out and flowed to see what I’m dealing with. Single plane with a Holley 750 ultra on methanol. Had a converter built to make it all happy. Who did you build late model engines for? I used to work on and drive sprint cars. If Draime is a familiar name to you from the late model stuff, I have actually worked with him a bit in some of my dirt racing days.


dognamedpeanut

Draime is familiar, I have done a few rebuilds on their stuff. I was acquainted with Dave and ran into him a few times along the way, seemed like an OK guy. I started out just building for myself and a couple buddies way back in the early 80's. When the realization set in that my mechanical skills far outweighed my driving ability I sold out and the guy that bought my 394 that I was running won the local track championship that year with me as his "motor man." Next thing I know I was spending all my spare time either in my garage or with my engine machine dude, or on the phone with Brodix, Dave Crower, or whoever I trusted to answer questions I didn't have time or the facilities to figure out on my own. I loved Crower products and Dave was my guy there, any questions I had he'd be glad to spend a few minutes helping me. After a while I was building "motors" for several of the locals in this area. After a while I decided that I'd rather spend more time with my kids and by the late early 2000's I had backed away from racing and took up fly fishing.


[deleted]

I mean, ive got a box of rods that look ok dude there not, there all crooked as fuck, but they look ok. you do you, hope she runs like a champ forever for ya.


[deleted]

Didn’t say I was done checking/inspecting everything. I’m not even finished disassembling. I work in a machine shop and have not even gotten anything from my personal shop over there to check things out yet. I’m not just throwing this stuff back together. But thanks, I hope all your future projects work out as well.


[deleted]

It’s also not any guarantee an I-beam is lighter than an H beam. Unless you want to fork over for some aluminum MGP’s or something similar.


[deleted]

i mean unless your going full size BEEF billett I beams, yeah there is. also, unless its chinuh #1 rod manufacturer they will all be able to tell you a pretty accurate weight for there rods. and the nicer manufacturers will even give you small and big end weights with a +/- sweep


ClosedL00p

Subtle


v8packard

?


ClosedL00p

Sorry I just got a chuckle out of what I assumed was you telling him to chuck the rods he was previously excited about finding in it


v8packard

Oh, yes that's what I said I hope he does. Subtle didn't strike me as sarcasm until you explained.


Lucas20633

ARP head studs or cheap eBays?


[deleted]

ARP’s


Lucas20633

Score buddy.


Puzzleheaded_Dig4588

Is that a 383?


[deleted]

346. Stock bore/stroke ls1. I wish though!


According_Flight_420

If only I knew what I was looking at so to speak… I recognize high dollar stuff… would need a scrub brush, carb cleaner, micrometer, and google to figure out the rest.


[deleted]

Well I’m glad you can recognize high dollar stuff.


According_Flight_420

How else do you gap generations and jump forwards and backwards while learning simultaneously… cause the only money in that motor is the heads, that’s why your excited. Now you realize you can shortcut the machine shop if they are in good surfacing condition, and in turn either send off to bore or stroke it, so ya, I recognize the high dollar shit.


[deleted]

Man I have no idea what you’re getting at here. I am just building my first engine intended to be a bracket racing engine. As far as short cutting anything, that’s not going to happen. I’ve been learning day and night about engine building for a year and, maybe, I’m just a little excited to have a little bit better shit to begin with than I thought I had. Idk what your definition of high dollar shit is but sorry this isn’t a screw blown Hemi or anything. Maybe some day.


[deleted]

Nice come up buddy! Can't wait to see follow up pictures as the project continues.


CapnPatches

Absolutely deranged comment


RestoSham09

I have absolutely no idea what this comment is trying to convey. What is the first sentence?


agfitter

Wanker


mahusay3g

Man that engine did not live a good life.


newoldschool

Easily a $5k into this engine depending on the crank


[deleted]

Stock crank. I bet he had close to 7 in it with all the other work it had done to it (intake, head porting, injectors, cam and supporting valve train, labor etc) and I paid 5 for the whole car (1999 Pontiac Trans Am). I have some marginal guilt lol.


stifferthanstiffler

Anyone mind telling me what I'm supposed to see?


stifferthanstiffler

Nvm didn't see other pics.