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I like to tell the story about my cat, baby kitty who is now 12 years old. She has always been a stone cold killer and once when I was out of town, my wife called me all upset and said she had brought a full grown squirrel into the house. The squirrel was very much alive. I heard some screaming and hollerin’ and the phone dropped …. then my wife came back on the line and said oh my God she ran in the bathroom …. I said well shut the door.

She left her in the bathroom for about an hour until all the noise has stopped. When she opened the door and looked in there, there was nothing left of the squirrel except something that look like a kidney and the bushy tail. Baby kitty had eaten all the rest, and looked as fat as a tick. Head, feet….everything.

Don’t let this sweet face fool you.

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Our little torty cat will eat your toes off while you sleep if your not careful
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I had that, rich kids near me had these


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I had one of these in P51 form. Got it when I was about 8 or 9 for Christmas. You had to bump start the things, then get your finger out of the way because they ran WFO all the time. One day the wind caught it, the line went slack, and it went up then dove straight for me. I threw the line and ran and it smashed into the driveway. Fun times, lucky I still have all my fingers from starting that thing.
 

Oh for the days of yesteryear when I could wire up an engine in < 30 minutes. Here’s what mine looked like a few weeks ago when I got the cab off:

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Two air and water-cooled turbos, plus all the associated intercooler/intake plumbing and engine management bullshit makes for a lot of peripherals to go through before pulling the motor!

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Engine block itself is only like 18”x18”x24” … a lot of crap around it really fills up the engine bay though, LoL.
 
Oh for the days of yesteryear when I could wire up an engine in < 30 minutes. Here’s what mine looked like a few weeks ago when I got the cab off:

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Two air and water-cooled turbos, plus all the associated intercooler/intake plumbing and engine management bullshit makes for a lot of peripherals to go through before pulling the motor!

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Engine block itself is only like 18”x18”x24” … a lot of crap around it really fills up the engine bay though, LoL.
From the looks of that bearing you posted something must’ve got into it
 
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Yep… no idea what or when, but it’s getting built up nicely. From the builder:

700Hp Rated Shortblock
-Incoming inspection (visual inspection, check mainline, check cylinders, check threads)
-Diamond Hone w/Plateau finish
-Deck (PCD)
-Jetwash
-Set ring gap
-Set bearing clearance
-Check crank straightness
-Crank micropolish
-Full set of bearings
-Balancing Crank, Rods, Pistons (adding weight is additional if needed)
-Traum Forged 10:1cr Pistons
-Eagle Forged Hbeam Rods w/ARP2000 bolts
-Assemble crank, rods, pistons into block

Plus any required machine work to correct issues of course. I’m also having a brand new Gen3 crank shipped direct to him…mine looks fine but the metallurgy and heat treat/finish machining are supposedly better in the Gen3 vs. the one that came in my Gen2 motor.

Shipping him my billet flexplate too, so he can balance the entire rotating assembly before building up the short block.

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Yep… no idea what or when, but it’s getting built up nicely. From the builder:

700Hp Rated Shortblock
-Incoming inspection (visual inspection, check mainline, check cylinders, check threads)
-Diamond Hone w/Plateau finish
-Deck (PCD)
-Jetwash
-Set ring gap
-Set bearing clearance
-Check crank straightness
-Crank micropolish
-Full set of bearings
-Balancing Crank, Rods, Pistons (adding weight is additional if needed)
-Traum Forged 10:1cr Pistons
-Eagle Forged Hbeam Rods w/ARP2000 bolts
-Assemble crank, rods, pistons into block

Plus any required machine work to correct issues of course. I’m also having a brand new Gen3 crank shipped direct to him…mine looks fine but the metallurgy and heat treat/finish machining are supposedly better in the Gen3 vs. the one that came in my Gen2 motor.

Shipping him my billet flexplate too, so he can balance the entire rotating assembly before building up the short block.

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Some old dude a long time ago told me the best thing to clean cylinder bores, gun bore cleaner like 99 bench rest or such.