Rapid Rebuilt Part 1

So its Thursday night and I just spent a whole night at Hyper16Valve getting all the details on our rebuild. Boy do we have great news.

Moe spent the good amount of Monday taking the current motor out of the car and started the breakdown of both the motor and the tranny. All came out without a hitch and he let us know that in the morning he would be getting some calls from some "friends" to see if they had a motor at their yard for us to use.




Tuesday Moe went out to look at the motor and was able to choose between a few different ones and he called me for the go-ahead and he purchased it. The rest of the day we took list of the damages which include a spun bearing but pretty much that was it, we were expecting the worse and alot of the parts would turn out to be salvagable.




So Wednesday the "newer" motor was delivered to the shop and Moe gave us good reports about it. He felt that it was exactly what we needed and he took the head off right away and sent it off to the maching shop for some TLC.



That night I went down to assess the damages and take photos. We spent the night planning out the time lines and the plans with the motor. We also found that there was a bearing the tranny that needed to be preplaced so with the whole thing aprt this was the time to fix it.





So, with the 2007 SCCA Rule book being tossed between 3-4 people it got a work out as we tried to figure out "the intent" of each of the rules that pertained to what we were doing. After we finally came to a decision we put it down in writing and we called it a night.




Thursday and Friday have been spent waiting for the head to come back and preping the shortblock to be sent off to be checked to make sure it would still run strong. All the meanwhile Moe is running all over town getting us the parts we need to rebuild the motor when everything comes back, as well and making the engine bay like it was 1989.



Right now we are hoping to have the motor back together for a fire up late in the weekend or early in the week. As long as we dont run into any road blocks we would have rebuilt our motor in 7 days...WOW!!

As Moe says "NO Worries sir, We are going to be alright, TRUST ME!!!"