Well, we didn't get a ton done, but we got some of the motor assembled and painted.

The block/head is painted flat black (as is everything else). Here are some picture with the ARP head studs, Felpro head gasket and progress. We also painted the rear hatch jams.

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You know you have issues when your front yard looks like this (There are two more 2g's inside the shop not pictured). We cleaned out some of the DSM parts we've been hording for years. The black '90 ended up weighing 3000 pounds when we dropped it off at the scrap yard!

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Ok, we didn't get very far, but at least we started! We decided to get it painted before dropping the motor (which we picked up from the machine shop last Saturday) in.

The short block is a 6 bolt running 2g Nippon Racing pistons on 1g rods, ARP rod bolts and ARP main studs. Our machinist was pretty impressed with the Nippon pistons. He said they look like good quality, especially for...

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Yes, I'm using Ebay parts. Remember, this is a budget build! I picked up some Nippon pistons, ARP hardware and a cometic head gasket. The motor was dropped off at the machine shop, Jensen Auto Service here in Utah, a few weeks ago.

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Well, I've been posting to my Wordpress blog for the last few month in regards to project "What was I thinking". So I'm going to use this post as a catch up.

Cleaning up the engine bay. We started with this . . .



Cleaned her up to this . . .

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