Ryan Weaver's 1969 Olds Cutlass S W31 Club Coupe

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

I stopped at the machine shop to see my engine progress and to pick up unneeded items to take home.

They are progressing well.

Block and heads are magnafluxed and hot tanked and or shot blasted.
Crank is machined 0.010" 0.010"
They bolted the main caps with ARP bolts and line honed.
Clevite bearings have arrived.
The decks have been cleaned up (0.006" by memory)
Heads have bronze guide liners installed and they are starting to measure for W31 sized valve cutting, and hardened exhaust valve seat cutting.
The valves are just in the heads for mock up.

The only issue right now is 350 Olds piston availability. The block is already 0.030" over and the machinist has measured each bore and is not comfortable re-honing/re-ringing. I was going to use the old faithful, cost effective TRW/Speed Pro Forged Piston and 5/64, 5/64, 3/16 rings but they only come in standard or 0.030", so the machinist is quoting Wiseco 0.040" semi-custom pistons with better/thinner rings 1/16, 1/16, 3/16. Lots of options and I have researched the heck out of them.

Ryan