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Originally Posted by pgranberg11
kudos to you to building your own short block. I was in the same bought recently. I blew my motor and it was either A go built short block or B buy used motor. I went the used motor route after I tore down the engine and going through all the seals and rubber o rings that scared me away as I didn't want to put the time and money building a short block and then screwing it up since it would have been my first one. Used motor I took the risk dropped it in and so far so good. Good luck!
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It is intimidating. Sooo much more crap involved than a normal inline engine. I was going to nitpick which orings I bought but decided to go with the full kit. It was looking like I wasn't going to save much by nitpicking anyways. To be clear though, I am not rebuilding the shortblock. I am replacing it with an OEM pre built shortblock. This isn't my first rebuild but it isn't the sort of job I do that often so I'd rather just buy one already built. If the car had 200K then I'd rebuild the bottom end and not expect another 100k out of it. But this car being only 87k I wanted something that I can be confident will go another 100k.
I really don't look forward to rebuilding all these seals though. They are everywhere. Both pans, the timing cover and the valve covers. Not even sure how many tubes of 3bond I'm going to need. It also wants 3mm width here and 4mm width there but only 2.5 here. I'm going to need a bunch of tips cut to various sizes to build these seal to spec.
I am curious, when you tore yours down, what rod was snapped? How did the other bearings look? Did you find any blockage anywhere? I saw in another thread that you changed your oil before and after a track day so I know your oil level was good. Any idea what your oil temps were when you threw the rod? Do you have a pressure gauge, if so, what was your pressure looking like around the time it threw?