L31 Extreme Budget Build

[HotrodZ06]

All depends on your definition of budget, very subjective depending on the person.

 

[HotrodZ06]

"Budget" engine build with $2k in machine work? I've over here twitching. Nice work, though.

 

[Supercharged111]

I thought this was a dingleball hone job.

 

[L31MaxExpress]

To be fair, even of the things he did buy, I doubt he paid the going rate.

Not even close. I had an employee discount at the auto parts store I was running the commerical counter in when I bought the fuel tank, sending unit and a lot of other items. The Proflow 4 was about half price too. This could have been a lot more $$$$ to get the same build.

 

[L31MaxExpress]

I thought this was a dingleball hone job.

It was not honed at all. LT1 pistons and new rings on a ~120K mile bore. After I cleaned and measured them, the bores were beautiful as it sat minus some very minor vertical scuffing in a few places.

 

[Supercharged111]

So where's $2000 in machine work coming from then?

 

[L31MaxExpress]

So where's $2000 in machine work coming from then?

I have no idea, except wasn't the the Buick guys budget 350 build using a 010 block with a similar $ of machine work done? Maybe he confused these two builds.

 

[L31MaxExpress]

Here is a closer view while it was running.

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[L31MaxExpress]

The Proflow system has adjusted the fueling more after some additional run time. It is getting closer to hitting its target AFR most of the time. Hard to believe a near 25% decrease in idle injector pulsewidth, 2.03ms to 1.52ms. The manifold vacuum increase is also interesting. 19.0 in/hg before to 20.2 in/hg now.

It will also be interesting to see if a MSD6A box changes anything.

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[Supercharged111]

It will also be interesting to see if a MSD6A box changes anything.

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It will have your a$s walking home if that counts as a change.