Originally Posted by lingerbw
Well, there's a lot of good info here. (Sorry it's gettin kind of ugly... ) It sounds like you guys both know your stuff, so it's all good.
Okay, my plan from here: take stock rods and new pistons to the machine shop, and have them press on the new pistons. Rent an engine hone from Autozone, buy 400 grit stones and hone the cylinder walls myself. Install pistons according to Helms. Put the whole thing back together again. Then buy some type of engine management system (any recommendations?), install, then have it dyno tuned.
I hope you guys aren't pointing and saying, "this guy's in trouble". I think I'm fairly capable, I just need the right advice. Thanks for all your posts. Keep em coming, and I'll keep you up to date on my project. (I got the pistons in the mail by the way :yay: )
you should have it honed by the machine shop.
its not that much, i got mine done for $65 + boiling.
came out great tho, car doesnt consume oil at 56k and 2 years ago.
however i did only find 1 place with the correct stone (which they had never used), and i called 5 other machine shops before that.
~boom