Got the cylinder head. For once there weren't any L05s or L31s laying on the ground, only a couple LM7s and a 5.4. I wasn't really feeling the need to save $20 by laying on my back and removing the pan with the engine still in place, so I'll pony up and order decent main cap bolts from Summit. By the time I got the head I was wore out, so I didn't try for a remote filter block.
I did see two C5 Corvettes in the yard. One was wrecked in the rear and mostly picked clean, the other looked like it had a straight chassis, but it was almost completely gutted. What does it say when they end up at Pull-A-Part? Now's time to score a clean one in the used market, they've bottomed out in value.
Long blocks are $100 this weekend, so there were a handful of people removing whole engines, and a lot of the GMT400s were engineless. I'm seeing less GMT400s and more GMT800s, so we might be on the decline now. I also noticed recently that Summit's supply of clean $700 4-bolt blocks dried up. Get wrenching on your trucks and clean them up. In about five years they'll be worth a lot more.
Edit: I went ahead and beat up on the bank account at Summit. $20 Summit brand main cap bolts, and rear shackles to drop the tailgate a bit. The real pain was the new BMR rear suspension arms for the Mustang. Now to go clean a cylinder head...
I did see two C5 Corvettes in the yard. One was wrecked in the rear and mostly picked clean, the other looked like it had a straight chassis, but it was almost completely gutted. What does it say when they end up at Pull-A-Part? Now's time to score a clean one in the used market, they've bottomed out in value.
Long blocks are $100 this weekend, so there were a handful of people removing whole engines, and a lot of the GMT400s were engineless. I'm seeing less GMT400s and more GMT800s, so we might be on the decline now. I also noticed recently that Summit's supply of clean $700 4-bolt blocks dried up. Get wrenching on your trucks and clean them up. In about five years they'll be worth a lot more.
Edit: I went ahead and beat up on the bank account at Summit. $20 Summit brand main cap bolts, and rear shackles to drop the tailgate a bit. The real pain was the new BMR rear suspension arms for the Mustang. Now to go clean a cylinder head...
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