.0035" is certainly not too loose.
I think you'll be ok dude

 

No no we say .0035 too tigh and da is where wowwy come from.

But 'sall good mang. We gonna run 'er. Just wanted to get confirmation that I wont get stabbed in the heart by a rod when going ham on this hoe.

 

Is it noisey?

 

Motor isn't to noisey, no. Just a tad on cold startup, which is to be expected.

 

This is normal for a LR build. I believe that the ring clearances will get better once they are properly seated with some boost.

 

Thanks for the response mang. I'm going out to put the head on in a few .

 

I believe he was talking about his friend's engine burning this much oil, correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit: saw the response above, should have read through it all before posting lol

 

He already had a professional go through it

 

i'm trying to buy a MIG myself right now,TIG looks too hard to start on and i have never done any welding before.


just seems like a lot of wear for 600 miles,but who knows maybe it'll last 50,000 miles?i guess time will tell.

 

Time will tell indeed.

I've always heard that if you learn on a TIG everything else comes naturally so I'm just going for it .

 

I used to burn a qt of oil in a week when driving to work, alth I drove over 10 hrs a week which was over 500+ miles a week but when I pulled my pistons out I found this. Even tho it had good compression and leakdown psi I think the main problem was that it had the stock pcv setup and it was sucking oil from the valve cover and sucking it into the intake, it was so much there was oil puddled up into the intake runners right where the pcv inlet line goes into the intake. Once I put in a catch can it stopped that issue....

The rings had rainbow markings on it and literally fell apart in pieces when I took the pistons out. I guess ran too lean or something...

 

all that extra oil can cause detonation

 

I don't think that was the issue, rather the oil being blown into the head and was blowing spark out which caused nasty misfiring and sometimes felt like someone turned the ignition off once I hit a certain psi. I don't see how that would cause heat marking on the rings tho especially with all the oil soaking everything internally.

To help keep this thread on track I will admit the cylinders looked pretty good still after 36k+ miles, looked nothing like the OP's pics he posted, although its' a 2.0 not a stroker

 

So do you wish you went with a standard rod motor

 

this has nothing to do with standard or long rod, long rod should have less side loading, I've pulled apart long rod motors with 5000km that looked nothing like this.