[Dean]

Thread reborn...

Just over 12 months from the fatal detonation at Thunderhill... The injectors are at C&C for testing and the completely torn down short blocks and internals have been to AIMS.

After an almost relationship ending miss-communication by Dave the young counter guy, after talking to Robert today at AIMS, we are back on track.

Both the '04 and '07 cranks polished up beautifully. Both sets of rods are fine. The '04 block after 100K miles and an almost broken ring land oil burning beast honed out to the high end of the larger STD "A" size at 99.512mm. Now that is a testament to how hard these sleeves are.

Now, knowing that, I would be willing to buy or suggest to someone else one of the "used" honed and re-ringed stock blocks the sand rail shop in So-Cal is selling.

The '07 block that had the burned through piston needs to be bored, but is hopefully salvageable. He is going to try for 0.010" over and then 0.020" over in that cylinder first and see if it cleans it up. if not, it is trash.

That is unless I want to run alcohol, bore to 0.040" over and have custom pistons made. The funny part is, in my case, the latter is not an issue as it is with most people, but alcohol is not an option.

By the way, the shop manual calls for Three Bond 1215, not Fujibond unless they are one in the same.

Now, what to do with the heads. I need to get those down there next. The '07 heads have to be inspected to see if the valves/combustion chamber got damaged in the piston failure. I am thinking about having the '04s fitted with 1mm larger valves and stiffer springs. At 100K miles, I am thinking it needs springs anyway.

Also time to order some ACL bearing sets unless AIMS can give me a decent price.