My new drag toy. 93 lx coupe carbed LS1/th400. (pics) by JRracing

3 minute(s) of a 190 minute read

with the cometic .040" gasket and 7.400" P, 58cc heads, T rex cam, The clay had roughly .120" to .150" clearance. I was surprised to see that much. I did the test with two welded up lifters in place.

Then we measure the piston/deck height, the piston is -.011" out of the hole. and with the cometic .040"/3.9115" bore(used gasket). THe CR is going to be 12.95:1. WOW, not a pump gas motor.. Oh'well.

I'll snap a few pics later this week. It's looking pretty nice on the stand with th AFR heads and YT ultra lites on it. GMPP valve covers on there way soon also. Trying to decide on buying two right sides with the fill hole, so I can put a fat breather on both sides....

10-3-2008

I got the GMPP valve covers and head gaskets today. I ended up going with a .051" to make the CR 12.5:1. That should be plenty fine.

I hope to meassure one more time tomorrow (3rd time) to be totally sure everything is as I think it is. Then bolt the heads up Sunday. Then hopefully through the week we can get the rockers set up and get the oil pump and cover buttoned up.

Then I can finally get the motor in the car.

I am thinking about powder coating the valve covers, leaving the logo polished, the valley cover and the vic jr gloss black. How do you guys think that will look?

10-4-2008

I could'nt resist putting a few bolts in for a mock up pic. It looks awesome.