This is not good!!!
- Thread starter airwolf
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machinegun
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- May 25, 2001
For the block go junk yard diving. 86 - 86 buick V6 blocks are all the same except for the oil return line. You can find them relatively easy. Once you have this strip it down. You have good external parts and if the pan is good you have most of what you need. Rods, crank and pistons are not that hard to come up with. You can find most of the stock stuff around Reds Hot Air usually has crank kits available at a reasonable price. Look at your local machine shops, sometimes they have the blocks laying around. You want ones that end with 109. You can get aftermarket pistons in various overbores. Cam and the rest can be purchased with out too much expense. Find a good machine shop around from other TB guys and assemble the engine yourself. It is actually kind of fun. Of course if you want to do the quickie version, got to Grooms Engines or Merkel and have a crate engine sent you. Swap and you are back on the road in no time.
