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12-14-2010, 10:21 AM
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Name : Bob Korreck
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Be sure and document whatever you do Mike. You know who to give the paperwork to.
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12-14-2010, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Panama City
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Name : Mike Elmore
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I'm really getting tired of this whole deal. I may just put a 4sale sign on my car and let it go for the best price I can get.Doesn't look like it will be ready anytime soon. The new Camero is looking awfully good to me at this point.
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12-14-2010, 12:16 PM
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Name : Bob Korreck
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Why not just get another block like Tracy suggested? I bet the guy working on your stuff can have it in a few hours. I really feel bad for you Mike but I hope you don't give up on what you wanted. Plus, you'll kick azz on any Camaro you run across.
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12-14-2010, 12:31 PM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
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Location: Crawfordville, FL
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Name : Rich Zuchowski
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vetteguy61
I'm really getting tired of this whole deal. I may just put a 4sale sign on my car and let it go for the best price I can get.Doesn't look like it will be ready anytime soon. The new Camero is looking awfully good to me at this point.
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Mike, I know where there is an LS6 block you can have for free.
But yeah, I DO know what you mean about feeling like just throwing in the towel and stop throwing good money after bad.
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12-14-2010, 12:33 PM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
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Name : Rich Zuchowski
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Originally Posted by Bob K
Why not just get another block like Tracy suggested? I bet the guy working on your stuff can have it in a few hours. I really feel bad for you Mike but I hope you don't give up on what you wanted. Plus, you'll kick azz on any Camaro you run across.
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Yeah, one of the guys in the local Tallahassee club got a Camaro but didn't keep it very long. He said that it was WAY too slow compared to the Corvettes he had also owned. But I guess the deciding factor would likely be whether you felt you needed more room for passengers or not.
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12-14-2010, 12:43 PM
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Name : Bob Korreck
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich Z
Mike, I know where there is an LS6 block you can have for free.
But yeah, I DO know what you mean about feeling like just throwing in the towel and stop throwing good money after bad.
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Now there's a deal. If this is your old block Rich you know all of the history that goes with it. I sure hope Mike considers this option.
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12-14-2010, 01:16 PM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
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Name : Rich Zuchowski
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob K
Now there's a deal. If this is your old block Rich you know all of the history that goes with it. I sure hope Mike considers this option.
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Yes, it's my old block. Harwood asked if he could sell it to drum up some money, and I told him he could ONLY if the money would come directly to me. Since I haven't heard anything from John Arnold about it, I assume the block and heads are still at the shop in Blountstown. If that is not the case, then in my opinion we have another incident of theft to deal with.
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12-14-2010, 04:13 PM
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Location: Panama City
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Name : Mike Elmore
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Thanks for the offer Rich. That's very nice of you to offer your LS6 motor. I am planning on going to talk to the guys at the machine shop tomorrow to get the straight scoop. Getting 2nd hand information is not what I want.You all know how that goes.I'll talk to the guys at the machine shop directly to make sure what I've been told is the truth.
To be continued:
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12-14-2010, 07:28 PM
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I have stripes
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Location: Wesley Chapel
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Good luck with either route you decide
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Originally Posted by RevXtreme 1
It is common to bore a old school 350 .030 and even more for comon sized pistons. The stroke of the crank in addition gets you the 383, etc. These blocks had plent of room to bore as such.
The LS1 & LS6 have to thin of liners to go the standard .030 over. Now a .0001 hone is sandard and you can go several hones of that much w/no issue using the stock bore size pistons. The liners in the LS blocks rarely show much of any wear at 100, 150, 200k plus miles when syn oil is used so rarely would we ever need to bore them. Only a hone to remove the hard glos and lay down a cross hatch so the new rings will seat properly. In fact, in almost every LS motor I tear down the original cross hatch is still visable and no wear ridge such as the old school motors had showing just how tuff these motors are.
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Ok that is what I thought. You confused me there for a while when you mentioned that you could not safely bore an LS and when the original question was to a thousandth I put both together.
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12-14-2010, 07:38 PM
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I always thought that aluminum blocks used a cast iron sleeve in each cylinder (or some other, more durable material other than aluminum). If that's the case, can the LS1/LS6 blocks be re-sleeved like other, admittedly older technology, blocks?
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