Well It Finally Happened

Well guys, the good news is that I got oil flow to the top of the engine. I used a small piece of stainless steel wire and lined of the hole. I knew it was probably alright because I haven't changed anything since the dyno test but with the kind of money I have into this engine I didn't want to take a chance. Now I have come up with a couple of new issues. When trying to set the timing it was going all over the place. We had the base timing at 18° and I am allowing the FiTech to control the timing (the distributor is locked out) and the timing is varying from 18° to 23°. After troubleshooting for quite a while we found the problem. It seems that when spending this amount of cash on a new engine one should not "cheap out" on components. I bought one of the TSP distributors (MSD clone) from Pace Performance and you guys need to watch for this. It seems that the flat at the end of the distributor shaft is a very sloppy fit and it's allowing the rotor to move at what looks to be about 10° of rotation, guess I will have to spend the $300.00 for a proper MSD distributor. We put in a distributor that my buddy Larry had lying around (can't be phased but it's a magnetic pickup) and the timing is stable. Chinese JUNK comes back to bite me in the a$$ again! Now for item number 2, the engine appears to be burning rich at idle. My O2 guage says about 13.1. When we were making adjustments Larry noticed that the FiTech was saying 14.7 and not moving. Looks like the O2 sensor is toast so I ordered one from Amazon and it should be here by next weekend. Well that's it for now, sorry for the slow updates. I will post a running video after we get it ironed out.