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Fun with Ted, Todd, Bill and Paul…Resurrecting an Ultimate Rebuild.

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It won't be Caterpillar Yellow either I can tell you that!

Black Lower Intake, Valve Covers and Oil Pan; Gun metal Grey Block and Heads; Polished aluminum Upper Intake (OEM or Peninsular, GM-8 or ATT and, of course, Purple Anodized Spacer for use with the Peninsular and ATT (sorry Mike [not really])

Here's one of Heath's LSR motors from a couple years back. Mine will be black where his is gold and his exhaust manifolds are a little different than the ones I'm using...cheater!.:agreed:
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3500GMC said:
I keep staring at those headers...:eek:hmy1:
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"If you like it, have some more...." here's another shot of the LSR motor with headers to feast on.

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I sent up another camera so they could get happy snaps of my build which will be posted later. Sorry, that's the best I can do. 1st camera turned in to a 'lovely parting gift' for the original builder.
 
ak diesel driver said:
someone did a really nice job on those headers
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I think that would be "Doug's Headers" if I'm not mistaken



I sent up another camera so they could get happy snaps of my build which will be posted later. Sorry, that's the best I can do. 1st camera turned in to a 'lovely parting gift' for the original builder.
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The gift that keeps on Taking!!........Add another one to the list!
 
Brooklyn Tow said:
I think that would be "Doug's Headers" if I'm not mistaken
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Not sure who made the headers. I'm sure he's told me but it was a while ago, outa my reach or needs and, therefore, forgotten. ;)

Brooklyn Tow said:
RE: Camera - The gift that keeps on Taking!!........Add another one to the list!
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The list is long and heartbreaking when looking back on it all. The camera was the least expensive item on the list of items given as either gifts to him and his family over the years or, more recently, in trade for services.
The "trade for services" was a set of cylinder heads. I purchased a set of Peninsular Heads as 'payment' to build my motor and sent the camera for documenting the build. He was to keep the camera for himself afterwards. I even picked a blue camera to compliment his truck. Well, he lost his job before work started on my engine but not until after he got the heads on his truck and HIS motor running. Later he said he couldn't keep the camera and would give it to 635 to document the build, but that didn't happen even after several opportunities to do so.:???:

Oh well, Over all, I'm sure he meant well and I meant well and it didn't just didn't work out...his choice. I hate to lose a friend over an inexpensive camera, "but he did!":nonod:

"Life...Be in it" and learn from it.
 
Mike K3500 said:
I would be recouping payment on those heads one way or another..!! Sorry to hear of your misfortune though.
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I have recouped 'payment through his former boss who is making it 'right'. The heads will be a part of the shops apparent agreement to rebuild the guys motor (long story that I've not got enough details to go into to get it straight). So, in short, I've purchased a set of heads for Heath Diesel. Heath Diesel is making it right by building the motor. Building motors for customers is not one of the services Heath Diesel does. Yes they build them but mainly for shop/business uses and on the rare exception for someone outside the shop when time permits. In this case, the stars align and I've got the exception as time doesn't really permit but I guess I'm just a prince of a fellow.
 
Paveltolz said:
Not sure who made the headers. I'm sure he's told me but it was a while ago, outa my reach or needs and, therefore, forgotten. ;)



The list is long and heartbreaking when looking back on it all. The camera was the least expensive item on the list of items given as either gifts to him and his family over the years or, more recently, in trade for services.
The "trade for services" was a set of cylinder heads. I purchased a set of Peninsular Heads as 'payment' to build my motor and sent the camera for documenting the build. He was to keep the camera for himself afterwards. I even picked a blue camera to compliment his truck. Well, he lost his job before work started on my engine but not until after he got the heads on his truck and HIS motor running. Later he said he couldn't keep the camera and would give it to 635 to document the build, but that didn't happen even after several opportunities to do so.:???:

Oh well, Over all, I'm sure he meant well and I meant well and it didn't just didn't work out...his choice. I hate to lose a friend over an inexpensive camera, "but he did!":nonod:

"Life...Be in it" and learn from it.
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That was a very Surprising/sad incident that was almost unbelievable....(It left me sctraching my head) :WTF:.........But, "what goes around, Comes around."

Some people are good at hiding their "True Colors"........and as they say, "Whatever doesn't come out in the wash, Comes out in the rinse."

Very sad, to say the least.
 
Paul, remember the part on 'paying it forward'? Well, it seems to me you being 'paid back' for temporarily giving up the fluid damper. :)
 
Thanks, but I'm not worried, just a bit flabbergasted. Everything I've done for others has been "returned" many times over. So much so I don't even attempt to count any one blessing against any particular act of service as I feel I'm still behind in giving.
This has / will all work out better than the original plan and for what, being patient? Yep. Slow and steady. In short, it's all good.
 
At work they'd say, "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast." No wasted efforts, no doing things over, repetition without error builds speed.

Seems like we've had the opposite results but it's actually paying off.

635 sent the following happy snap from his cell phone today; Motor on the stand ready for 'the touch of the master's hand.':hihi:
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Paveltolz said:
It won't be Caterpillar Yellow either I can tell you that!

Black Lower Intake, Valve Covers and Oil Pan; Gun metal Grey Block and Heads; Polished aluminum Upper Intake (OEM or Peninsular, GM-8 or ATT and, of course, Purple Anodized Spacer for use with the Peninsular and ATT (sorry Mike [not really])

Here's one of Heath's LSR motors from a couple years back. Mine will be black where his is gold and his exhaust manifolds are a little different than the ones I'm using...cheater!.:agreed:
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Wasn't that the motor (or the twin of) the one featured in Diesel Power a year or so ago in Bill's LSR attempt? Those custom headers are a dead ringer for the dual turbo set up ran on that motor.
 
Husker6.5 said:
Wasn't that the motor (or the twin of) the one featured in Diesel Power a year or so ago in Bill's LSR attempt? Those custom headers are a dead ringer for the dual turbo set up ran on that motor.
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I believe that is the same motor featured in the article. That motor was broken in but not run on the flats in 2010 or 2011. Some lucky people got to go on some runs in it up and down I-90 though...not me. Some may recall the 2009 motor had come from Diesel Depot so they could see what it would do and may recall where the Diesel Power article stated the high volume lift pump will drain an oil pan at those high rpms...it did...ungood. So Bill built a new one, the one pictured, and it will actually never make it to the Salt Flats but it will be used to transform his earlier model dragster truck to a diesel powered unit. Don't think he'll be racing it but who knows.

As for next year's runs, Bill has something in the works but he's got the cards pretty close to his chest on this one so I can't even tease cause I don't know.

Thanks for mentioning the article though, I hadn't read it in a while and realize from my discussions with him, the assembly techniques outlined are how my motor he's assembling my engine, minus the block filler.

In the mean time, I've learned that my ATT is now on Joe's truck to see what it will do with the HP3 cam kit (no I wasn't sandbagged as this was an offer I made to them to see what it would do for them while we waited for my motor to get ready for assy). From what I hear, initial impressions are quite positive considering Joe's tune is actually an Econo tune like mine currently is only, according to Bill, my truck is a Dog (no hurt feelings).... Further, I hear there may be an arm wrestling contest to get the ATT back for use on my truck...time to start exercising I guess...whippersnappers anyway!
 
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