The motor is out of the car, I found all the needle bearings and had to pull the heads and dropped the oil pan to do so. I have sent the heads to a buddy's shop to have 1 intake and 1 exhaust port flowed just for curiosity (I'll post my results), gonna have the springs checked, the heads cleaned, and 1 valve touched up (the tip is slightly marred from when the rocker started to bounce around).
The motor has 59K on it and showed no signs of trouble, until the rocker arm let go. So now where do I draw the line, which route would you take....
I have pretty much decided to go with ARP studs (reusable on the next project), Fel-pro gaskets (that's what came off, so why change), and Comp Cams Pro-Magnum rockers (stock ratio) but then it gets sticky....
Do I..
a) button it back up as is and get back to having fun.....
b) replace the oil pump with an LS-6 job and a new chain just for insurance....
c) new rod bolts (seems to be a weak link)
d) B & C
e) or just freshen the shortblock (no overbore) just rings, bearings and all of the above.....
I'm not trying to be cheap, I just don't want to dump money into a 346, I'd rather (down the road at later date) build a big inch iron ls-2 with all the good stuff.
What would you do???
Chris