Bought what was supposed to be a crate motor off a guy on Ebay. Recieved it and while motor looks to be never run, upon futher inspection there is some discoloration near the tops of bores like chamber burn etc... So it's been run. How much I dunno. Pistons look new though. Bottom end is very clean. Problem is though that motor sat for a long time almost 2 years in storage. There is some discoloration in the bores almost like a surfast rust. Now you can't feel it with fingers but it's there. Guy doing work on my car is very good(did my s/c'd Mustang) and thinks we should tear motor down and rehone the cylinder walls. He wanted me to check to see what grit to hone the walls with b/c he wasn't sure off hand as he said depending on the rings in the motor would determine how/what grit he is to hone the bores.

it's not a crate motor btw b/c when we popped off the oil pan there are no 4bolt mains. So now I don't really know wtf I have. It's a 97 motor from what we can tell. Madwolf from here referenced some #'s and thinks it's from a 97 firebird. But I musta wrote some #'s down wrong b/c some of the rest of the #'s don't match his database.

So now my project is now stalled again. I wish I would have never got this damm car or this damm motor! My wife is ready to kill me for all the damm $$$ I've spent and now I'm gonna have to spend more. Sooooooooooooooooo depressed.

And to top it all off the Cubs blew a 3-1 games lead and lost the NLCS