NON-Rant!

[The Fixer]

I'm a happy member of this board! Drank a few glasses of amaretto and orange juice, and am staring at a stack of new parts for the Jeep - 4 Bilsteins, two Brutestop rotors, Raybestos ceramic brake pads, and a bunch of Moog swaybar bushings and endlinks. :w00t:

[Brando56894]

awesome, sounds good buddy. yea right after i was pissed off i did something that made me calm down pretty quick :lol:

[Ian]

I'm also happy. I was taking my motor apart and I dropped a piston and it broke. now I have a legit excuse to get some new forged slugs :D

[Brando56894]

half the time bad stuff ends up being good in the long run, except in my case lol

[j0n]

half the time bad stuff ends up being good in the long run, except in my case lol

maybe you'll learn to slow down?

[The Fixer]

awesome, sounds good buddy. yea right after i was pissed off i did something that made me calm down pretty quick :lol:

Nice! I won't ask, just in case it involves illegal things. :) My goods are legal, since the wife/kids are sleeping and I'm old. :)


I'm also happy. I was taking my motor apart and I dropped a piston and it broke. now I have a legit excuse to get some new forged slugs

Sahweet! Course, you're gonna need a forged crank and good rods to hang them on, too. :)

[Ian]

Sahweet! Course, you're gonna need a forged crank and good rods to hang them on, too. :)

negative on the crank, I dont have that much cash to play with....but I might get new rods...

[The Fixer]

negative on the crank, I dont have that much cash to play with....but I might get new rods...

Well, how ridiculous a motor are you building? I think stock re-sized rods with ARP bolts and a stock ground/polished crank are good to @400 hp, from what I've heard.

Way to hijack my own thread LOL!

[Ian]

the stock crank better hold up to more than 400...otherwise I might have to pony up and get a forged piece :shock:

I dont plan on making much more than 400 at the crank, hell I dont even know if I'll make 400, but thats kinda the area that I'm shooting for. I'm at least getting new rod bolts if I dont get new rods all together. the mains are gonna be studded, so that should help a little...one broken piston and suddenly a re-ring job turns into a project...

ut oh...forged con rods for 200 bucks! Scat pieces too!
http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10002_761555_-1_10239

[Ian]

P.S.

pics of the motor in the multimedia section :wink:

[BonzoHansen]

I was real happy until an hour ago.

Front clip is coming together. Thanks B64C for the fender alignment assistance! :lol:
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Yup, that's the yoke off my rear axle. Book calls for 70 lbs, this broke at less then 40. Dammit.
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7729/img1181sdh0.th.jpg (http://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1181sdh0.jpg)

But I am happier I got the broken part out (I knew those extractors would come in handy some day), and I am now drinking Magic Hat HIPA, so my happiness should return...
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