Never rebuilt a engine so I need advice.

Twin_Turbo said:
One of them has over 30.000 with the TPIS cam. It's my 3/4 year daiy driver (not with snow and salt)

Your cam issues could have been caused by a plethora of things, like a manuf problem with the harneding or misadjusted rockers where the lifters hammer the lobes, inadequate lubrication for some reason... some lobes had issues, others not. The main difference I see is that all my TPIS cams are billet steel cores with pressed on cst iron gears. Yours looks like a austempered core but I don't think they used that.
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When did you buy your cams?? Like I say the engine was assembles in fall of '97 and on the road by Jan 98......I suspect I got a early shitty cam then, but what bugged me is they asked for it back, alluding to a possible replacement, then told me to shove it....so I paid 15 bux to send it back, just for the insult.....:ripoff:
 
TimAT said:
It's out of the car, put it on a stand, roll it upside down pull the pan and roll a set of bearings and a new oil pump into it. Compression and no smoke, rings are fine. Bearings and oil pump are cheap insurance against having to pull it and fix whatever got eaten when the bearings let go.
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My thoughts exactly. Bearing, oil pump, gaskets, and timing chain are a must before it goes in. Optional would be upgrading the cam.

If you need more fuel find a set of injectors out of a 460 Ford.
 
upgrading the cam through a stock front cover is a royal PITA.... if you do wish to do so later, be sure a clip the corners of the cover so you can get the front cover off without totally destroying the pan gaskets
 
I've decided to just rebuild the whole motor I think and never have to worry about it for a long time. Probably just have it bored and buy a new crank and rod kit for it and probably go with forged pistons and a stock L98 cam.

I'm going to pull the oil pan this weekend and see how it looks in there.
 
Started stripping down my engine today

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Here is how the heads look. They were actually this clean when I bought the car and it had a blown head gasket at that time. Inside the lifter valley even looked like it had very low miles.

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Hey that looks a lot cleaner than that old mill in my 82 TA LOL .. all the coolant ports on it are clogged :D
 
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