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Not sold. Im still trying to figure out what to do with it. Either I pull the motor and demod the shell and sell Andrew a nice roller or I part it all out myself, spending months tearfully dismantling my stillborn baby.

You gain nothing by giving up this close to the finish line. Go have a few beers, sleep it off, and get back to it. As Mathesar said: Never give up! Never surrender!

I do have some emails out to some shops, but I cant afford to pay to have this corrected. Obviously I cant do it myself, and I certainly dont have any friends willing and/or able to help. Ive worked myself into a pretty stinky corner.

Randy, You have the Intrugue to Drive....so its not like this is your daily.

I would pull the motor,( you can do it by yourself with an engine hoist) put the cam and the heads on the stocker, reinstall the stocker with the new goodies and be happpy

How did you block off the balance shaft oil passage, just turned the bearing? Who installed the cam bearings and fit them to the cam? The cam should have been a really tight fit to the bearings, and you should not have been able to turn it by hand without the sprocket on the end (well, unless the assembly lube you used is *reallly* good stuff).

I'm not convinced it a problem with the bottom end - I wouldn't toss the bolt-ons on a different block.

Don't give up now. You'll regret it for God knows how long.

Ive regretted not giving up for the entire time!!


Balance shaft blockoff is just what you said, bearing installed backwards. The cam bearings were definately not that tight.

A couple emails I got back from local shops pretty much sum things up. One wont touch it, one wants a $2000 deposit and can only tell me it will cost at LEAST $4000.

I don't think I would give up on this, having been in similar situations myself before.

If I was closer I'd come and help ya with what I could...

Calling the shop that built the shortblack now. This will probably be what decides it.

EDIT: 6 month warranty on the shortblock. Too bad it took me 8 or 9 months to put it together.

Against all common sense, I started tearing into it before work. Pretty sure this rage is taking years off my lifespan.

Might continue tonight after work and probably have the Lim off tomorrow morning. Then best case scenario would be the balance shaft delete causing the problem. Even then, the cam bearings are probably bad. Do I just pull the *dang* motor?

yourgrandma wrote:Against all common sense, I started tearing into it before work. Pretty sure this rage is taking years off my lifespan.

You gotta die of something.....


Best of luck to you. After all you've been through with this car/project, I'd hate to see it end like this.

You have one of the biggest projects ever on a 2000+. You've built a custom motor. Most likely, just one thing is causing this problem, that's *dang* amazing for one guy doing this by himself.

That shop needs to be dragged through the mud. That's some *shoot* they're doing to you. Find the problem, take care of it, and enjoy it for years.

G35 for the LuLz. Only acceptable if it has the sport pack with LSD, stick...

I wouldn't touch a g35 without all of the above.

I apreciate the pep talk. I don't know if it's working or of I've gon completely madz but I'm startingto mentally prepaid myself to drop the subframe.

I still really wish I could get some help, but short of straight up paying someone else to do it, that's not happening.

I'm off Wednesday... But that might be tight. Otherwise next week I could probably do Wednesday and maybe Thursday not too late. I'll have to get back here as its wedding weekend on the 10-12th and I'm the Best Man.

Besides, the weather is turning to *shoot* again this Wednesday.

I would not touch a bottom end on these 3800s, if it was me.

Larz01 wrote:I would not touch a bottom end on these 3800s, if it was me.

Okay. Its not you. Id explain my motives but Id be wrong anyway.

Jason, I work nights, so I only get about 2-3 hours of garage time before work and maybe an hour or two after. The motor can probably come out tomorrow if I dont slit my wrists by then. Taking *shoot* apart is always easy.

Fack/

yourgrandma wrote:

Fack/

please don't say that that was left in the tappet gallery. BTW - the youngest son had an 86 'stang that he loved, but the heads had been milled on it when he bought it and the intake leaked oil like a sieve. took us 5 or 6 times before we figured out why the gaskets were getting split when the manifold was installed, then the oil pump/distributor shaft fell into the oil pan - he was ready to burn it. good thing I was there to keep him focused. that's what the forum is trying to do for you. just wish some of us were closer so we could come by and help. it is dis-heartening, but don't quit now. you'll get it done - BC

1oldman wrote:

yourgrandma wrote:

Fack/

please don't say that that was left in the tappet gallery.

If that was in there, I'd be calling up the shop and b***hing them out big time!