My 408 breaths again.

Well, since killing my engine at the PHR photo shoot I have been slowly rebuilding it over the past few months. Its now done and runs great.
The block is from a guy on ebay that sells prepped blocks and all sorts of other goodies. He did a realy nice job.
It was cheaper to replace the block than it was to replace pistons, install screw in galley plugs, deck the block and bore and hone my block.

I ended up replacing: the block, two heavily scored pistons, a complete set of rings, all bearings, polishing the crank and adding a hyd roller cam.
Other additions are a Miloden 8 qt pan and oil pump pick up, and a Melling oil pump.
The intake is also properly port matched now.

After driving it this afternoon my first impressions are that it feels a lot stronger. In any case, I'm going to baby it for a few weeks until I feel realy comfortable with it.

I posted a short vid in the vid section of the running engine just after it had ran long enough to tweak it a little.
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And THAT, my friends...is the right attitude to have!! Dont let the machine beat you!!
Congrats on getting her up and running so quickly!! Now, lets see those 11 second time slips!!

1st she gets subframe connectors and Caltracs bars, then we will see if 11's are obtainable. If not, I'm scrapping the 408 and installing a blown alcohol injected 460. That should get me close. [img]/forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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