[99 to Life]

3-5-14 tues and wed evenings I have some time to work on things like the engine and dash etc, smaller things that fit in my garage at work. I started back on the engine as its getting near time to fire it up and make sure that piece of the puzzle is how it needs to be. With all this LS stuff going on, this will be a stand strong for the SBC, should have about 400plus ftlb of torque and HP and should get good gas mileage. Full roller set up. So as you can see, I got the cam in. My double roller chain did not clear the oil galley plugs. The pic of the original roller chain (which looked plenty beefy) has a taller cam gear so it clears those gallies fine. So I grinded them down, and got to degreeing the cam. Well partially my dumb move and or the timing gear's fault. They have a big dot on the tooth of the crank gear which I lined up with the dot on the cam gear for a straight up cam. However after degreeing the cam, I realize my numbers are off, so I found out that on the keyway of the cam gear I'm at 2*advance. So I gotta take that off and reset everything up as I ran out of time. Played with my pushrod length and unfortunately I gotta order new push rods, I'm still pulling to have it buttoned up by the end of month but might be a little longer before I get all the parts to button it up for fire up.

I'll be posting some updates on my work for saturday, tonight. Which is already a bust because of a death in the family unfortunately. I did however stop out to a salvage yard yesterday and came across quite a bit of older stuff. This art deco chevy is actually someone I know, which he just dropped it off that day, its really rough, as is most stuff out on their lot. I thought I had some rough stuff but wow these were bad. alot of tri5 stuff, so I'm thinking if they'd come up off a dash (almost the only thing salvageable off some of them) I might try and buy one for my 54' AD truck, as I actually don't like those dashes too much and wouldn't mind something different. 47-53's I actually really love the dash so I don't forsee swapping one of those.