After months of stressing over my engine build, parts not arriving like they should, and small set backs here and there, I finally got my engine timed last night for $20 and now it's resting in it's rightful location all snug in the engine bay. I know everything I need for the engine to start (fuel, spark, etc...) is good. I'm still a little leary of the timing since this guy did it so quickly, and...

So after many weeks of off and on concidering going through the struggle of shaving one of my spare valve covers, I finally decided to do it and give it the rain effect paint job. I was a damn b@#*h at first when I started the grinding. Ended up getting a much coarser grit griding wheel and then breezed through the shaving. Then the sanding took a while to do, but in the process, I filed all the cast...

so i got my engine nearing completion, just to find out my damn timing belt tensioner pulley needs to be replaced. the damn thing won't spin when it's tightened now. !!!

So I finally got my pistons that I fought to get for a month and got the block and head to the machine shop for machine work and balancing. I can't find my list of the work they did at the moment, but that'll get listed under my mod list once I do find it.

Anyway, got the block and head back this past Thursday and it sat til Friday night when I realized they removed ALL the bolts I...

So I have been patiently waiting since the beginning of March for my new engine parts to arrive and went through a long battle to get the damn pistons I ordered. I finally got everything and got to take my engine to the machine shop yesterday to get worked on, al was good, til I found out today I'm only getting half my damn paycheck on the 15th because the government wants to be stupid. So now I can't...