It's on! So why am I posting something here and procrastinating. I'll be in my garage right after I hit "send".

I picked up all my engine stuff from Ballos Precision Machine last night and my butt hurts. $810. Only about $250 of that was parts, but really when it all comes down, they did a lot of little jobs that I wasn't given an advance-estimate for.

I asked them to clean up the block, rods, check the crank, and do a valve job on a good cylinder head. Order me a set of rings, main & rod bearings, and a set of ARP rod bolts & ARP main and head studs. That's it.

What they heard was...

Tank and clean the block, head, crank, rods, resurface the block, head, hone the bores, paint the block, polish the crank & cams, replace the valves, order ARP stuff, rings, bearings, install the main studs, and empty my bank account.

I sorta didn't want them to paint it because I was going to do it... but they did, and I'm not going to mess with it now. My new job starts Monday, so I don't have the time to do it anyway if I want to get this thing built before then. So I can't complain. They do great work, and my GSX's build has 33,000 miles on it now without a single problem... At least I know once it's bolted back together, it will be bulletproof. You gotta pay to play if you want to win.

I was about to buy some ACL bearings and Nippon rings off of ebay for $59, but Stuart stopped be by alerting me of the different classes of bearings. He said that on a turbo setup, nothing but ACL H-series bearings will last. The ones on ebay were not H-series bearings. I guess that advice is worth the $ I paid.

I'll have more updates soon.