New engine pics...

[turboculosis]

Details are in sig. Shouldn't be long now....

 

[Boost231]

No lime green ?

 

[turboculosis]

No lime green ?

Na. Green isn't my color. :biggrin:

 

[86 TR]

Lookin good!

 

[Royal-T-Ltd]

looks great...

...what do the valve covers say???

 

[turboculosis]

...what do the valve covers say???

Sorry for the crappy resolution my iphone makes, but the valve covers say: Jack Merkel performance engines.... He built the motor and did the heads.
Thanks for the compliment guys. I appreciate it! Wil post up more pics as progress continues.

 

[garyk1970]

you suck

 

[86brick]

Looks great!

 

[turboculosis]

Motor is in!!!!

Lotsa work still ahead of us. Now where do these wires go again????.....j/k
Thanks to Jack Merkel and Eddie Jr's Repair shop for helping me out bigtime!!!!

 

[86brick]

Good work, keep it up.

 

[GNBRETT]

Looks like a beast.

 

[turboculosis]

Thanks guys!!!

Looks like a beast.

I sure hope it runs like one....

 

[jhanson1750]

Good looking setup.

 

[GNeric]

They don't say anything... you have to read them.

...what do the valve covers say???

 

[bishir]

If it runs as good as it looks you'll have one beast of a car on your hands.

 

[turboculosis]

Ready to fire up...

Some more progress. Would've been running if I didn't fry the new chip by putting it bassackwards.... Duh. Also waiting on my Champion fuel rails...but should br running before the weekend.:biggrin:
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[turboclam]

Where did you get the oil pan?

 

[turboculosis]

Jack Merkel via Steve Reynolds (SRE) back when he was still in business. Unfortunately I believe he gave up the business last I heard.

 

[turboculosis]

She's running...

After a 3 hour ordeal trying to figure out why on startup, she was puffin away with black smoke and wouldn't stay running. We found that the relucter ring on the BHJ balancer was off approx. 90*. We checked everything prior and all was good as far as chip,spark,cam sensor position,fuel, compression etc...Luckily I remembered someone posting up a thread on it and BAM!!! When we checked the relucter ring position compared to a stock one it was way off.After reading further into the thread it looks like all of these (buick v6) BHJ balancer rings are not set to stock position for the reason being that they are geared twds the guys with the aftermarket ECU's and can compensate for the ring clocking through their program.Or just poor quality control. Ahhh...what a relief the sound was when she fired up after the adjustment to the ring. and that smell of c16...Priceless. I can't say I didn't learn anything with this 2 year old project.
Now we have some tuning to do. Thanks guys for the help!!!

 

[rmar]

Congrats Looks good......