I finally got all of my parts in the mail, got moved in, and stopped rolling people’s fenders on my time off.

A good friend of mine who is much more familiar with these motors is helping me out quite a bit with this – and I definitely couldn’t have done this with out him.

I loaded up my accord with all of the motor parts and the engine stand (I should have taken a picture, it was nearly tucking tire out back, haha) and headed over to my friends garage so it would be easier for him to work on it.

I am replacing the main and rod bearings (clevite), the main and rod bolts (with ARP janks), putting a Lutani 224/224 cam in, dual valve springs, hot trick hardened push rods, stock valves rockers and lifters, LS6 valley cover with LS6 intake manifold, 5.3L 703 heads, and an LS4 oil pump (plus basic gaskets and what not).  I am going to install the valley cover at my place after we get the motor together w/ the heads on and what not.

I laid everything out so I could get a picture of it all before it got put together, by the time I did that he had removed most of the crap on the motor – I couldn’t believe how fast he is, it took maybe 5-10 mins for him to tear the motor down and take the old bearings out.  The old bearings and the whole interior of the motor was in very good condition, my friend kept commenting on how good it all looked.  I attempted to take a photo of how good the cylinder walls looked (it took 6 shots and a flashlight to get it!).  Enjoy the photos below – we had to stop because he needed to borrow a cam bearing removal tool and I have to pick some new cam bearings up!  Luckily I should be able to get that taken care of tomorrow, so I will HOPEFULLY have another update tomorrow.