69 Vette,

I had the same thing happen to me. I'm using the same Rods and L19 bolts.
I had a shop weld/braze the hole and then I'm using about a 1" of block fill
I was told not to have more than 1" put in because I could have cooling problems for a street car in AZ.

I don't think there is anything else that could be done besides using different rods and rod bolts. I did my own clearancing with a instructor watching. The L19 bolts are frigging huge.

The shop that fixed the hole said they fix holes often and have never had a problem but I'm doing the block fill as extra protection.

Let me now how it works out. I'm waiting for my block fill to be done right now.

 

Sounds like we had the same issue with the bolts. What shop is doing your work? And yeah i was told to only fill the block as much as neccessary.

 

A place in Phoenix called mach Development is doing my block fill.
A Shop Called RNR did the work on the hole. I decided not to do the block fill myself after listening to the proceedure they use to do it. I figure there is a good chance of messing something up. I don't want any problems with cooling.

Let me know how your goes.


Tom

 

i'll let you know how it turns out...

 

update: block has been welded and turned out great. Now its in the process of getting filled a little bit for extra protection.

 

69vette,


Thats good.
Do you know anymore about the exact process they used to weld it up?
I contacted my shop Friday and asked them about this again. They indicated to me that they have seen lots of blocks welded up.
I know the shop I had fix mine used some type of Braze material.
I'm guessing the L:19 bolts are overkill since the guy selling the 1200 hp stroker motor in the for sale section is using Eagle H beams and Arp 2000 bolts.
I'm also having my rods checked out since someone mentioned in here that eagle rods are out of tolerance a lot. I had my Eagle crank checked out allready and it came back very good. I used the 4340 lighweight Eagle crank.