gearheads78

These bearings almost welded to the crank would be my guess.

Lady72nRob71

I am far from an engine expert, but from the pictures it appears like that thing sure lost oil pressure.
You said earlier that only a small amount of watery oil came out when you drained it. If that is all that was in there when you were spinning donuts at high RPM, then the pump certainly went dry.

I have seen many wore out cylinders but never had i seen one with an alligator texture.

On to the rebuild!

sicky olds

OK hopefully this is what you are asking for gear lol.

Here's hoping lol

gearheads78

Yes it was. Well I will say you didn't do it any favors runing it out of oil but by the looks of those pistons that motor didn't have but a few hundred miles left in it anyway. The piston clearance was set way too tight or its been hot or both.

sicky olds

Well it did have that over heating problem when I first got it. Radiator ended up being like 50% clogged so out might be part of thee problem but we may not know

gearheads78

A little warm does not do that. You would have about had to melt it down.

sicky olds

I will chalk this one up as ashitty build then lol

Nilsson

[quote=gearheads78;249128]These bearings almost welded to the crank would be my guess.

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I missed this picture.

sicky olds

So i finally got the energy to talk to some machine shops and it looks to be about 1500 with getting a short block done. Now where did i leave my spare cash lying around...

sicky olds

WELL..... its been a while since i made progress on the car lol. Finally got the engine in for a machining and all that. Found out the engine was bored 60 over already and the block wasnt terrible.... only 4 resleeves and the other 4 walls honed. Got the crank polished and also a re ring kit for the block, pistons were good so i will be replacing them as well. pics of stripping the engine's paint in a few

sorry it took so long to get some more up dates but will take pics of what i did so far

sicky olds

As promised here are some of the pics from getting the engine back and starting of painting it.


The one with paint was how basically the block looked after i got the block back.

then i used JASCO paint stripper and after the first night this is how it looked

sicky olds

Then i got out and started scraping and then got out the brass wire wheel and went to town

sicky olds

Then i decided to primer one of the sides and see how i did... now remember this is the first time i have painted with spray paint but i feel like i did an awesome job!!!!!

sicky olds

decided to primer the other side of the engine as well.

sicky olds

and here is where people will have an issue with what iam doing to the car

I decided that since i am never going to get rid of the car i am going to do it my way and do a modded resto. So with that being said i started to paint the engine and i am painting the block black . Looks good so far and i have also started to strip down the heads. Pics up later

Jamesbo

Sicky, I've got sum extra red paint if you change your mine and want it to look origional. PM and I'll send it to ya FREE if ya want it.

Here's what it looks like.

sicky olds

much appreciated james but i think i am going to like the black, i am going to be painting the accessories red though, i think it will look good when i am done .

Don L/442

Good to see your back at it. Black with red trim will look better than what you had but that red 455 of Jamesbo's does look good.

sicky olds

yeah but i would like to put my own twist on it . how awesome it will be to see people expecting a red engine but then see mine

Nilsson

Be careful, they say once you go black you will never go back.

sicky olds

pics as promised

sicky olds

So i painted the heads red this week and with the block and heads painted i came home today and decided to piece her together to see what it looks like together, now the question is... what color should i paint the intake? comments appreciated

442_Mustang

Yep... Once you go black, you never go back.

gearheads78

If you want an honest opinion that looks terrible. Paint the heads and block to match no matter what color you decide on.

sicky olds

what is the reason on this richard? I think it looks good but you guys have done WAY more cars than me and i would like your personal opinion on why TIA

gearheads78

Its kind of an unwritten law in the car guy manual. Heads and blocks shoulds always be the same color unless they are aluminum. Its you car to do what you want but if I bought a car with a motor that looked like that it would be out that weekend for a respray.

sicky olds

lol well like you said it is my car, i like it and had no clue about this law

i am going to finish it the way i want and if all else fails and it looks bad.... Black will cover anything lol

But i thank you for your advice and maybe its my young age but it seems a silly law lmbo

gearheads78

blue or green to keep the theme going

sicky olds

lol tempting

1968Cutlassfallbrook

I think I would go with the red as I think it looks nicer then the black. Also if it's the number matching engine and you're going back to factory then you should go all the way.

sicky olds

no it is not numbers matching and i decided to go with a modded resto on this car, and the thing with not painting it red is cause i want my own spin on the car and it was either that or i paint the car my own way and that would be silly lol

sicky olds

Finished painting the parts today and put everything together to see how it looked. I LOVE IT so far and am super excited for getting the engine put together and hear it rumble for her "first" time.

First picture is how it looked the night i pulled it out of the car, changed a lot since then

Also Ordered the headers: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HED-58150/

and a new carb also, went from a 870 to a 770 of the same line

RAMBOW

No offense, but i'm with richard.

Once its installed its just gonna look like someone was too lazy to pull the engine when putting on new heads(how it will look to everyone else)

I actually did that exact thing years back with my 68 delmont... new heads painted Red- block was black... I had intended on pulling it and painting it red to match the new heads, and I wussed out pulling the block at the last second and left it in & just installed the heads on it.

For the rest of the time i owned it, i constantly got crap about the heads & block not being painted right. Annoyed the **** out of me.

sicky olds

Thanks for the input, and if it does look that bad the good news is the heads are only temporary lol. Just trying something different. and if someone says i was lazy i will shoe the pictures of how i meant to do it that way . But we shall see

Mike77

I painted my engine black. I hate it. I look in the engine compatment and it just all dull, no POP! Coming out this fall to paint it blue and install all my nice shiny NOS parts.

sicky olds

that was why i painted items red.

redoldsman

Different strokes for different folk but my stroke says that is the ugliest engine I have ever seen. You are fortunate enough to have one of the most desirable Oldsmobiles ever. Expect to get a lot of crap as long as you own this car. One thing I am curious about, did the machine shop vat this engine when they did the work. That usually takes off all the old paint.

sicky olds

its cool red but like i said before and will say again, its my car i will do what i want to it and if people dont like it, then tough lol

And the machine shop did clean it they said and the reason the paint didnt come off was because of there being plastic in the paint and it doesnt come all the way off.

sicky olds

Over the weekend had some guys from the olds club come over and start to put the engine back together. got all the pistons in and the cam and then called it a day. Last night we double checked the cam degreeing to make sure it was installed correctly and then put on the front of it and the water pump etc. and then put on the oil pan and called it a night there. Next step is putting the heads on and the intake mainfold to finish her up and the carb obviously then through her on the test stand to make sure there are no leaks or what not on her.

sicky olds

Yay!!!

is all i have to say about that