[19bonestock88]

So, I basically just swapped all the goodies (ported and decked head, balance delete, aluminum flywheel, etc onto the cheapest short block I could buy from a salvage yard. It had 250K miles at the time of the swap and ran great, minus the thermostat sticking open and the thing never fully warming up. Something else I’d wanna sort if I get back to it… as to the short block that I damaged, I firmly believe it’s very rebuildable, it was only knocking very lightly and I filled the sump with 20W-50 before limping it very gently to where the engine was taken out. Oil was slightly glittery but it only knocked above idle and at very light or very very heavy load

Photo is of the car at the last event I did with it. I did find some improvements aero wise but I also spent more time with togue/autocross rubber on it and mileage suffered some for the additional drag…