The Engine Has Landed

"MM54" (mm54mk2) 12/28/2019 at 16:25 • Filed to: '71Chevelle

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Three hundred and sixty-six days (yes, one day over a year) after the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! the Chevelle’s new engine has been bolted in place.

This includes the transmission, which was much harder than anything else because reasons . I am very happy to see this finally sitting in place. Next step is to torque down the long list of bolts which are snug but not tight (pretty much everything that holds the engine/trans in), then generally rebuild the whole car around the engine.

Boxer_4 > MM54 12/28/2019 at 16:49

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Looking good!

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > MM54 12/28/2019 at 17:00

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at this rate you might get your car driving before i do lol

MM54 > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 12/28/2019 at 17:46

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While the goal was to have it on the road about 6 months ago, there is a hard deadline in a little under 3 months which it needs to be able to drive itself out of the garage and across town because reasons which Oppo doesn’t know about yet .

MM54 > Boxer_4 12/28/2019 at 17:46

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Thanks!

19JRC99 > MM54 12/28/2019 at 18:52

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I love those valve covers!

sn4cktimes > MM54 12/28/2019 at 19:21

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I wish that when I did the engine rebuild with my Eagle that I stripped the front end like that. So much room. So open. Knuckles so saved. Ratchet accessible .... 

MM54 > 19JRC99 12/28/2019 at 21:15

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Thanks!

MM54 > sn4cktimes 12/28/2019 at 21:16

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The accessibility is nice; in order to do all the other work it needed, the whole thing had to come apart anyways so I might as well put it together as easily as possible!

shop-teacher > MM54 12/28/2019 at 21:36

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Awesome! It's starting to look like a car-like substance again!

MM54 > shop-teacher 12/28/2019 at 21:51

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It is slowly coming together. I wanted to have the engine in before the end of the year, so that’s one goal met for once.

shop-teacher > MM54 12/28/2019 at 22:04

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There you go!

DirtyDodge > MM54 12/28/2019 at 22:47

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Congrats! Its a great feeling getting the engine back into your project car.