The engine is in now.
I installed it last night. Let it idle for awhile, and then I drove it down the street to try to start the break in. Noticing it had absolutely no power, I only made it down teh street once. I parked it in the shop and was completely crushed to hear this horrible knocking coming from my engine bay. I listened around and couldn't quite find it. I thought it was either my clutch or my #4 piston making noise.
Today I had my uncle swing by my shop and check it out. After awhile of tinkering with it we decided to hop under and check out the flywheel. We put some tension on the crank with a ratchet and noticed we could move the flywheel about a tooth before the crank moved. At first we thought that the crankshaft had broken right at the rear main. Only driving the car a mile and having about 15 minutes of run time on it, we didn't see how it could have, but we knew it had to come out. I pulled the motor out and noticed the flywheel was not right. I reinstalled the flywheel and torqued the bolts down and put the motor in.
Well the knocking was gone, but it runs very poorly. It's getting a few backfires from the exhaust. I think that it's missing on a cylinder or two, so tomorrow I will have to crawl around and start checking things out. I'm hoping I may not have a spark plug wire on the distributor cap on well enough, or something to that nature. Maybe i'll pick up a new set of spark plugs and see if it helps.
Anyways, since this is a build thread, I took some pictures. I have a pretty nice little shot of the engine bay with the new engine in it. I will post the pictures and any new updates tomorrow night.
