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Tech Area => General Buick Tech => Topic started by: Scoobum on July 18 2014, 10:17:08 PM

Title: It's Alive!
Post by: Scoobum on July 18 2014, 10:17:08 PM

New engine fired up today without a hitch. SM numbers were bang on...and she runs as smooth as silk.

Title: Re: It's Alive!
Post by: Shimy87 on July 18 2014, 10:28:32 PM

Lovin that!! Mine seems to create a new problem every time I twist the key :icon_eyes:

Title: Re: It's Alive!
Post by: Steve Wood on July 18 2014, 11:08:46 PM

keep it that way!  :D

Title: Re: It's Alive!
Post by: Scoobum on July 18 2014, 11:17:44 PM

Quote from: Steve Wood on July 18 2014, 11:08:46 PM

keep it that way!  :D

Gonna try. Been pretty lucky over the years. Two cracked cylinders...an d one piston pin came loose and scored up a cylinder. Only time I lost a pair of head gaskets was when the vacuum hose from the port to the actuator collapsed. Run mine tuner style. I log every run and go over it in the trailer between runs.

Title: Re: It's Alive!
Post by: good2win22 on July 18 2014, 11:54:57 PM

Glad for ya!  Still piecing parts together for my engine build and saving money for the machine shop. It is nice to have a running turbo Buick in the meanwhile.... But she sometimes pushes my engine build further to the right...

Title: It's Alive!
Post by: larrym on July 19 2014, 03:55:35 AM

Get out there and cane it!


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Title: Re: It's Alive!
Post by: Scoobum on July 19 2014, 08:43:27 AM

Quote from: larrym on July 19 2014, 03:55:35 AM

Get out there and cane it!


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Ran it in yesterday. Oil and filter change...and put da' boost to 'er!

Title: It's Alive!
Post by: larrym on July 19 2014, 02:29:43 PM

That's how to seat the rings :)


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Title: Re: It's Alive!
Post by: Steve Wood on July 19 2014, 08:35:04 PM

Modern rings may be seated before you get it to the street