At this point I kept the bottom end together for a bit and didnt wrench on it too much. I ended up painting it hoping I could keep the bottom end together but things went sideways when I pulled the cam and got a look at the cam bearings.
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Clearly not a good thing.
So of course at the cross roads I had to look at the main and rod bearings and to nobodies surprise they were all in not such good shape.
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Also started ordering up some parts for the swap
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Gotta love coming home to mopar boxes :) Water pump this time
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Also put some paint on a few parts.
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Painted up the kevko oil pan to give it some oem stealth (orange is stealth right? haha)
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Got a Hughes 222/226 110 Lsa roller cam. Plan on using the 2200 stall in it now and 3.55 gears so this should be a decent fit.
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Off to the machine shop the bottom end went. Who said you can't hoist an engine into a hatch back? hahaha
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The machine shop has been awesome to deal with, super old school. Really wanted to use IMM out in Indio but the 2 hour drive stopped me. Just couldn't set aside the time to get out there so I used one closer to work / home called Vellios that I have read a bit about between here / hot rod mag etc.
