IS A SWAPMEET SBC WORTH IT? - PART 2 OF OVERHAULING CELYNAS HOTROD ENGINE

Welcome back to Part 2 of Overhauling Celyna's Small Block Chevy 350! In this installment, after cleaning and a basic inspection revealed no major issues (just a loose timing chain easily sorted), we're diving deeper into the engine overhaul process.
Join us as we strip away the old paint using paint stripper and a wire wheel, ensuring the block is prepped correctly for a fresh coat. We'll also conduct a quick inspection using a compression tester and check the main bearings, which all turned out in great shape.
Stay tuned for Part 3, where we'll replace the timing chain, cover, and prep the block for painting. Our goal is to complete the engine build and get it ready to hear it roar back to life!
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[@Vintage_Iron]

Nice work guys! Good to see you guys are back at it🤙

[@calirod]

Thank you so much! Taking a break now as I work on it for part 3 👍🏽

[@LNSPLTBLVD]

cant wait for the next video

[@calirod]

Thanks man! Hope your model a is coming along 🤘🏽🤝🏽

[@LNSPLTBLVD]

@@calirod just collecting parts right now haha

[@calirod]

@LNSPLTBLVD same 😅

[@adventureswithedna]

Leftover taco bell napkins are totally underrated

[@calirod]

lol… right! And “free”

[@supercrew63]

the main bearings looked fine, nice thing is that the cam is already broke in, the cam manufacturers have lost it a bit and have a few friends have been wiping out cams on break in, post pandemic. They did not have issues before said pandemic. I hate to say it but my next build will have a roller cam... Ouch, but if you wipe a cam it is gonna cost the same anyway.

[@calirod]

Thanks for confirming… glad it all checked out. Timing chain/cover went in yesterday and it’s time for paint

[@mr.nobody68]

Seeing that paint inside the engine tells me the builder was sloppy and careless at best. If it were me, full tear down, hot tank, magnaflux, new cam bearings and new core plugs. Speaking of the camshaft, let me tell you a story When I was a kid, I helped my dad with his 32 Plymouth 3 window. 67 or 68 impala 327 with 194 heads. Very mild Comp Cam. I wanna say it was like 280 duration at 0.050 and like 485 lift with 1.7:1 rockers. Dad's uncle opened a garage after WWII. Dad worked there in HS. Dad also took machine shop classes in HS, then worked in an engine shop before joining the navy and later becoming a tool and die maker. He ain't a fool. That camshaft went in straight up with a double roller set. Guess what? It sucked the number 3 intake valve, which raped the piston. I don't remember how, but dad figured out that the timing gear keyway on the crank snout was just ever so slightly off when the factory cut it. A mild cam with big rockers was just enough to cause it Let the reader be educated: A degree wheel on every engine you build is time well spent, and you will catch things like that. She ended up bending the rod and the valve and the push rod. Dad didn't like the looks of any of the lifters, and decided on a new cam as well. So, that ended up being all new pistons, rings, rods, valves, push rods, lifters, and a new cam. Plus, the heads and block went to the engine machine shop to get re-dipped, magnafluxed, and new cam bearings just to be on the safe side. Dad found a piece of scrap at work and machined his own timing gear key to correct the problem as well as re-grinding the crank snout keyway slot in order to ensure that if the car was ever sold and somebody tore into it, they would know. IIRC, dad had a few machinist tricks and a lot of math to use dial indicators instead of buying a degree wheel. Moral of the story Spend double the time and quadruple check everything, or spend twice as much money and 3 times the hours to do it again For anyone wondering, she was bored 30 over and dad ported the heads at home taking them right to the ragged edge and then port matched all of the gaskets and the Victor series intake and the generic block hugger shorty headers. She liked 39 degrees of timing on 97 octane dumped by a 650 Carter AFB

[@calirod]

Hell of a story Mr. Nobody .. thanks for sharing. I agree it was a rush job by one of the shop guys to get it out or someone new doing the work. My hope is that his story holds up true, it was a crate engine that ran 20K miles in a “show truck” then pulled for a reseal job and in the process a show came up so they threw a new crate engine for the show. It came from a reputable shop so I have my hopes high 😊 although this isn’t meant to be a “budget” build as you know… you can go deep into the rabbit hole and the bank account… so trying to do things right but also efficiently. Fingers crossed it works out! It worked out in my 32 so hope I can go 2 for 2 👍🏽

[@MiharuNV750]

Let Celina say something!

[@calirod]

She has the whole middle slot! 😅🤭

[@alendovzan6768]

ok, this is a new engine ... it's not the one that you smashed so hard with a hammer ... that one didn't deserve anything else ... except hard smashing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@calirod]

Lol… yup

[@alendovzan6768]

@@calirod new engine ... new movie ...😂😂😂