The Busted Bronco

The Engine bay as we remove some stuff. Owner Shane trying to figure out the Plenum problem. By the way we let air outta the tires, Shane isn't really that tall. Owner The plenum bolt that had to be drilled out. The star pattern was stripped so we drilled it out. Owner 127,000+ miles of grime on that intake. Owner One broken short block, ready to come out. It was about this time we realized the back two cylinders wouldn't move when we turned the crank. Owner Shane, getting the engine ready to come out. Owner The busted block outta the engine. Like my new oil filter, just put it in. Owner A shot of an empty engine bay, notice the scattered bolts below the windshield. This would prove to be a problem later. Owner another shot of the block. Owner Here is the problem, broken crank shaft. Owner Here is a close up of the same picture. Owner another shot. (There are many.) Owner Another close-up. Owner Here is a shot with a pry bar pointing to the crack. (incase you didn't see it in the first 4 shots.) Owner And one more for good measure. Owner My new Grooms short block. Bored .40 over with the new comp cam already in. Owner Me painting the engine bay. One of the few things I was allowed to do on my own. Owner Cleaned the oil pan and valve covers. Owner Nice new GT-40 heads compared to the old crusty stock heads. Owner Comparison of the intake and exhaust valves between the two. Owner Stock exhaust manifold compared to the new headers. Notice the port size difference. Owner Picture showing the intake runners of the new GT-40 heads. Owner Here is the old head's intake runners, for comparison to the new GT-40 head's runners. Owner Painted the block, and everything else. Owner Engine with timing chain cover. Owner Engine with Headers on. Owner The new engine wanting to go to it's new home. Owner Here is the engine lowered in. Owner That's me doing something pretty important, I just can't remember what. Owner Yup doing something reaaaally important. Owner That's me working on getting the intake mounted. I finally got an important task. Owner Got the accessories hooked up and the lower intake mounted, which proved to be a difficult problem to over come. Owner Next we have the upper intake plenum, which is heavy, and a PITA to get set on it's gasket. Owner Plenum is mounted, it is starting to look like a real engine again. Owner That's Shane priming the oil pump. Owner More priming. Owner Shane working on tuning the beast. Notice the dirty INSIDE of my hood, I was playing in some puddles (more like lakes) before the engine we… Owner