Teardown of a Chevy 396/402 Big Block for a 1970 Camaro RS/SS Rebuild - MuscleCar S6, E5 

I'm honestly in love with the show guys, keep up the good work!

Nice to see some old fashioned metalworking ! good job guys - looks great

Really like your builds......when you put in the fender patch I learned something.....don't cut it off before you see how long it is.....wish they'd have done that when they circumcised me!

Thanks for uploading these episodes. I really like this build.

He worked those fenders like a boss!

I work at body shop been doing it 17 years and most guys on RU-vid are doing shit wrong but these guys are truly doing it correctly.

One day, once I've got that dream job, I'll roll to work with a mullet, and a big ol v8 , smelling like gas, and looking like it's Friday everyday.

13:17 always leave a loose headbolt on before you break the cylinder head loose. The cylinder head could fall on your foot!

I’d love to have a shop like that and all the time in the world to do and learn that kind of body work. I have some A&P sheet metal work under my belt, and some backyard mechanic experience, but some REAL professional type work done myself over time is what I’d like to learn.

Damn! Those holes could've made junk out of the block. Those boys got super lucky.

I really dig your show. Have been for years, too. Keep it up.

The good old days! Acquired a 396" BBC in pieces in 1978. Rebuilt it and stuffed it in a 74 Camaro junker with a Muncie and Ford 9" rear. Pulled the engine and later installed in a 10:90 57 Chevy with a Turbo 400 and 12 bolt rear..sold the rolling Chassis and in 1986 installed the engine in my 56 Chevy 150 utility sedan with a 12 bolt rear and Alston ladder bars...that car is sitting in my garage here in Vegas with a six speed Tremec, same rear suspension, custom built headers installed with tri Y collectors comped to me by flowmasterbefore they were on the market. They started out in Santa Rosa CA. My buddy chromed them in the 80's and three years ago took them to Sanderson Coatings in So. San Francisco and had them redone...they had never seen such a long set of headers...we got a laugh out of that. Now painted black with blue flames, simple black interior with the package area carpeted, old five spoke mags....396 now has Holley EFI, L-88 valves, heads port pocketed and matched to intake..done by my buddy on his flow bench. He's passed away and helped with all the head and intake work years ago when the engine went in the 10:90 car. Goes in next week for a tune and once over before hitting the streets of Las Vegas.

Can’t wait to hear that 402 run 👍

Great workmenship….great video….

Very interesting and insightful.

Love your show!!!! Some of the best content on youtube!!

Awesome series. Thanks

My compliments on saving that front fender.

I like both these guys, they do great work, and can explain what and why.

This is a really old episode. I watched this whole build on the power block, probably at least ten years ago.

They're professional they know what they are doing.and have tools to get the job done

Tommy deserves his own show... the dude is great "when tearing somethin down you don't know nuthin bout..." dang straight!

I've never seen holes like that in a cylinder wall

What an art I love it!

Sweet! A DVD of the thing I just watched for free for only six bucks?! If only I still had a DVD player...

Appreciate the love

Love your videos

Been running this motor in my '71 F-250 4x4 since 1979.

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Not sure I'd use that block. Those are big holes, and might give you "hot spot" issues in that cylinder. Broke is broke sometimes. 🤔

Only people with southern accents should be working on Camaros

Super lucky with that block...

That narrator was having a blast with this one

I love the way that dude says panels

Hello dears, your garage is awesome, very clean all tools are their, great technicians. Hope can i get a chance to work with you and have some of your experience. Thank you

outstanding!!!

nice job

What I want you guys start doing is give us the full built in one episode.... please

FYI A L78 is a 4 bolt main motor not a 2 bolt main!

Went right to the comments area to see all the “experts” pick this video apart....

Used to watch this back in the day, what I don't get is have it blasted just to "make sure" it's right then sleeve a bad block?

Tommy Boshers is my working class hero.

At 7:51... who knows how long ago this episode aired but I do body work as well (because I'm working on a datsun 280z) and I've been told after tacking that you should NEVER immediately cool the tacks with an air compressor as it'll warp the panels

I’m still learning and pretty new to automotive work. If you resleeve an engine because broken piston pieces flew- isn’t that block now weaker and more prone to overheating?

Always feel like I’m missing most money of the build here. But at least I know everything there is to know about the new steering wheel puller from summit racing. Also, how’d y’all get James Hetfield to sand and paint that Camaro?

Me and my buddy are doin a 80 rs Camaro. We got it from his old family farm and it was sittin for several years and we dont know if we should stay with the v6 or go v8 and if v8 we dont know what to go with like small block or big block or carb or efi we want to re do everything on the we are from mn so the rust is definitely there any help or suggestions is muchly appropriated.

those blocks are getting harder to find but that is some damage

Like your 65 falcon had one 289 clock out at 200 on radar

That's all antique dinosaur stuff these days. Now you can buy blocks, pistons, cams, heads, intakes, etc., that will produce twice the horsepower as that old shit, and for not a whole lot more money. About twenty years ago a rich buddy of mine sold an LS6 motor that was in really good shape. I thought he was crazy for selling it and I asked him why he did it, and he said because he could go to the Cadillac dealership and buy a brand new 500 cu. in. fire breathing monster engine for the same price he got for that LS6, and that it would have 25% more horsepower than the LS6.

Thank you for this video I’m making use of Coronavirus Quarantine time. I know these videos are slightly aged.

Bet Tommy will have those heads magged as well to see if any cracks on those cylinders

Sleeve it and off you go... This happens to 351w more often than I'd like to admit (thin walls at .030 over)... Specially when a valve bounces around in the cylinders ... Or melting a piston and lifting a land... After they are sleeved they're just about bullet proof...

A core's a core!

Im still surprise the machine shop was able to fix that

When was this recorded? seems like Rick was around about 10 years ago he has been long gone Where is Rick now?

You got lucky on that dead cylinder.

They should let me paint it. 🎨

15:21 the "oh sh*t" moment

Legend has whistlin diesel owned the truck that motor came out of ..

1:14 Acura Vigor?

I’m looking for a alternator bracket for the 402 1975 cutlass salon

Longest commercial I’ve seen in a while

Teardown starts at 11:50

Just use some of that Flex Seal on the cylinder wall

When are you working that calliente

You should have clearance Ted block and put a 454 crank in there and made it a stroker

2011!!

Novice question.... why not buy new panels on areas that are bolt on bolt off parts?

Excellent job guys. I watch your videos and I'm a fan of your show. I'm sure you love off what you're doing and you know how to do it write anyway. I live in Cyprus in Mediterranean sea. Is it possible to give me a number of how much it cost? Thanks. 🤩

I know he’s in a rush but those welds man needs a grinder for Christmas

Just weld up the holes. Less work less money too. Rotten metal has to be cut out but not clean drill holes.

Same thing happened with a 350 4 bolt main i had picked up. the rod broke and destroyed the cam all the pistons were screwed i havent looked at it sense. I was just thinking i could just put new bearings in and new rings and call it good. But nope. No motor now andto much money to fix... Sad situation....

If I was the owner of that car I'd slap y'all for repering that block.

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Had a ls 5.3 block crack the cylinder wall at 330k

Good.

3:35 got a little too close with that cut off wheel

Seen several 396 engine with holes in the cylinders.

That block is trashed, go ahead and try another!

Bruh that busted cylinder looks like it came from Krazy driving

Rick Bacon, bet he knows how to make bacon best.

I'm no mechanic, but I've never seen holes in the cylinder wall.

The car is cool but I'd replace that heavy boat anchor with an LS engine

He touched bare metal with his hand big no no 🤣

Wonder how that engine got messed up so bad

the amount of work they are doing on the panels, its might be cheaper to purchase a new one, and easier...

Just buy another block, weren't L78s four bolt mains anyway? And while you're at it get a pair of Winters aluminum heads and manifold and make it an L89.

Well at least the piston wasn't sideways

I can't believe they reused that engine. Even if properly fixed with fluxing and sleeving its still extremely weak. Years of corrosion, wear & tear, etc.

I'd toss it for a 454 personally

all 375 hp 396 engines had 4 bolt blocks , do it's not exactly the same but it'll do the job.

I also have a rs ss they are very rare.

Why not use biodegradable nut shells instead of plastic?

15:21...Pikachu Face..."woah dude."

why didn't you massage the dents from the back side and that would be manual labor in the trunk.... working the metal from the backside is always better but not faster... ????

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If you are going to build a L78 that motor has the wrong heads, wrong pistons, wrong connecting rods, wrong mains, wrong intake, block has holes, you better start with the correct motor.

Do you have no external nervous system? DUDE WHY ARE YOU WELDING WITHOUT GLOVES AND TOUCHING THE PIECE WITH YOUR BARE HANDS

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