[jons911]

I pulled the engine/transmission together the last weekend of March and had my first startup in mid October. It took another couple weeks before I worked on the tune and got it driving on the road. This was my first engine rebuild. The only outside work I had was sending out the heads to Craig Garrett to be rebuilt and taking my crankshaft to a local shop for inspection and polishing. I used new rods, new pistons, and a rebored set of cylinders I had bought a few years back, so I had them waiting for when I was ready to assemble. If I remember correctly, I had the full block completely rebuilt by mid June. The design and fabrication of the turbo exhaust and intake is what took forever. Since it was originally a 3.2, I had to make it all from scratch. I definitely lost at least 4-6 weeks over the course of the project due to needing to order parts unexpectedly or things not working as expected during disassembly and reassembly.