Engine Teardown

 With the body stripped and the engine out of the car, the next step was to disassemble the engine.  I was told by the previous owner that the engine did run when it was parked in 1994 but had not been started since.  

I had already decided that I wanted to do a complete engine rebuild so Ray had me remove everything that I could off of the block. When the heads were pulled we noticed that the left side head gasket was blown and once everything else was removed from the block we learned why.  The back third of the block had accumulated 33 years worth of rust and dirt which had packed around the back two cylinders.  The back quarter was getting very little if any coolant.

Fortunately, there wasn't any overheating damage and there weren't any surprises found when the engine was pulled apart.  The cam and crankshaft looked great and just needed polishing.  The cylinders were slightly egg-shaped and the pistons would need to be replaced.  The heads looked good and had probably been rebuilt at one time.  The exhaust valve guides were borderline but would be replaced.
The engine was now ready to be sent to the engine builder in Pilot Mountain, NC.  The block would be boiled to remove any remaining trash, the cylinders were bored 0.030 over, new pistons and rings installed, heads were decked and planed, valves ground, new valve guides installed, rods shot peened,  an aluminum cam gear installed and the camshaft was ground to R3 specs. The timing gear cover was sent off to Ingvar Vic to be machined and a neoprene seal installed.
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