After much cursing at the corner seals, the engine block is back together as one piece and making nice "vwoosch" noises when rotated. We learned a lot in the process (nice way of saying the darn thing didn't go together smoothly and we had to fight with it for about 6 hours).
The oil pickup bolt sheared off, so we stopped for the night. All that's really left is the flywheel & oil pan.
My new clutch & pressure plate *stabs* aren't going to be here till Thursday. So, I'm not getting the engine in until Thursday at the earliest. Hopefully I can get the intake manifold & such in place when we get the engine in, and try to start it. It's going to make a nice cloud of smoke for a few hours after starting (the insides are very well lubricated with oil & such during the assembly process) and not idle below 1200 RPM or so, and require a few hundred miles of breaking in with city driving (ick).
I was hoping to be in Ames for the 4th, but I don't think that will happen. MAYBE if every goes really well and I can get a lot of miles, I can show up late Saturday or something. Don't count on it though.
At this point I'm just hoping nothing goes wrong when we get everything in place. Hearing crunching or such would be really bad. I want my car running again, please.
-=Russ=-
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