BuiltByBob Garage is just a day and the life of Bob Stevens in the garage, I've been building cars for 30 years and just want to share my experiences with everyone, I originally built drag cars in Miami Florida where I was born and raised, I was 13 yrs old when I built my first engine with my Dad just after hurricane Andrew, from there I never stopped and never looked back. Thanks for taking the time to view my channel and hope you enjoy
Where you from man ? You have a strange accent I can’t put my finger on . I feel like you’re from somewhere else and have lived wherever you are for half your life and kinda have two different accents mixed into one .
Beautiful..you gave me hope..my first car I purchased was a 1984 Buick Lesabre 2 door Limited..I loved that car so much..I hope to get another one soon and build it classic/modern style..looks good under the hood..👌🏾
Hi Bob, great video mate, very informative. We are building a very similar lsx454, but with a 3.3l Whipple. In The video you say you’re running a 4.15” stroke, have you modified the stroke from the standard 4.125”? Cheers!
Thanks for the advice, and thanks for watching👍, the plastigauge must have done the trick because he’s done over 18 events and the engine made 1100hp and running no problems with good oil pressure
I have an 82 Vette with a Dart SHP 427 making 550hp. I use a 4L8E with a US-Shift 4 TCU. I never really liked Lambo doors an any car other than a Lamborghini. The body is designed for the door to work. Everything else has this retrofit double hinge si the door doesn't hit the body.. I would love to see some one try a Koenigsegg hing on a customised car. That has a set of gears rods and arms to make the for rotate forward as it moves out parallel to the car.
Looks a lot nicer. I also love that car since my childhood, and it’s my 16 year old son favorite car, so maybe some time I the future…. I’d love to rebuild one of those
Yeah there a cool car and they are with so much now, I remember in 2010 a friend of mine bought a mint r32 GTR for 7k and around the same time I bought a r32 gtst for 1k, but those days are gone, thanks for watching 👍
Well it’s been 9 months and they have been doing event after event and no issues, the engine before that was the same stroke and lasted 3 years, but only running 14psi, thanks for watching 👍
Just so you know, even though those valves lapped in fine , You really need to change the Speedmaster seats and do a complete valve job. They are known for cracking and dropping broken pieces in engines.
Yeah I’ve always been suspicious of the Speedmaster stuff, but it wasn’t my call on the parts, I was just provided them, the customer had a budget, I only cover engines I build when I provide parts
Nice work Bob, I may be able to help you out with some parts for that as there's quite a bit in common across Chevy vans and trucks. See you soon hopefully, at Cars and Coffee maybe.
@@builtbybob_garage yes in Ireland. I'm in Moira County Down I bought it of a man in Donaghadee. He had some engine trouble with it and had a local American car mechanic put that 305 in. I only had it a couple months then sold it to get a 1989 k1500 silverado instead. It's had a few owner since me. good to see it's still about
One thing you’re gonna have to do is notch the middle bed brace. The rear diff will hit that brace if you hit a big dip which could break the brake line that’s mounted up there. I notched my brace and unbolted the brake line from the rear diff and just bent it back some so that it wasn’t higher than the top of the rear diff
Yeah right after I finished the video and took it for a long drive I heard a bang every once and a while so I brought it back to the garage and put it on the ramp and exactly as you said, I ended up cutting out the middle of the brace over the diff, and I put the brake line a bolt hole lower and bent it, thanks for watching 👍
@@builtbybob_garage Ok I saw people driving on the wrong side of the road and you were talking about millimeters. I got really mixed up when almost every car and truck was American lol.
I saw Will’s of Dying Breed Garage post about your channel. I just subscribed. Great content, the cars are great and this Charger is extremely well restored. Look forward to seeing more
I watched a video of a 440 being stripped down and the guy found 6 of the pistons were installed with the wrong orientation( they were installed in the wrong cylinders). An intake valve kissed a smaller exhaust valve relief and bent the valve. It would not have been a problem if it had flat top pistons. People are just not paying attention to details like the upside down rocker shaft in this engine.
Yeah Ive seen some crazy things over the years, the most common mistake I see on the v8’s is the thrust side of the rod on the wrong side of the crank, or the bearings put in top to bottom, I have a procedure I stick to when building engines so that way I don’t overlook anything but we are human we all make mistakes, but it’s just important to take your time and think about what your doing, thanks for watching 👍
