Well, ran the motor for about 3 hours and no issues. Today, I was turning onto a major street and some guy on a motorcycle came zipping through two lanes of traffic (lane-splitting) and I jumped on it. Pulled through second. Guy was a total douche, riding my ass. Car ends up making this horrible screaming as I let off the gas. Pull over and it looks like head gasket? I am running a 4-corner steam line kit. You can sort of see some vapor on the right rear of the engine. Oil is clean. Engine temps never rose but the car did have a bit of a stumble afterward. Let it cool for about 10 minutes and it was fine driving home. I do see that the coolant is down about an inch through those 3 hours of driving but I chalked it up to the system bleeding. How much and when should I see the steam line dumping into the radiator? Is it possible I installed the head gaskets wrong? And wouldn't I have seen this issue in the prior 3 hours of runtime? Also, drive belt jumped 2 ribs but I'm not sure if that was during this or prior, as I didn't look at the engine after my drive last night.

It fired. Stoked! Solid 50psi oil pressure at idle. Fuel pressure seemed a bit low but I'll monitor it. The car has been sitting for about six months. I've owned this car for 27 years. Next up will be getting it painted and working through some wiring gremlins. Thank you again for the help and positivity here. Best group of guys. No BS and you guys know your stuff. I didn't post much but I'll miss this place.

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Thanks for the help with my build. I am planning to fire it maybe later today or tomorrow after work. It's close, now!

Hey guys, Time to order some injectors. Rather than use the ones I had in my prior build, I think I "might" want to just get some new ones. But I have a few questions. My goal is to build a reliable, fun, street motor. It's in a third gen F-Body with a T56. 1. How accurate are most companies out of the box without verifying their stated flow rate? 2. Need help settling on a good brand if I go that route. 3. Are my current injectors (Bosch 280150558) worth reusing after a sonic cleaning and flow-match? Current combo used green top (casting 280150558, rated at 42# - have seen 43.5# on some sites). My build is N/A and anticipated to stay that way for awhile. I will be verifying my prior tune with HP Tuners. Here's my combo: Block - 6.0 iron, bored .030 over (4.030”) Crank shaft- Stock, 3.622” stroke, ground .010” Main bearings - King MB5293MC .010 (Standard bi-metal aluminum silicon with anti-friction coating) Pistons - Mahle PowerPak 4032 forged 4.030" with .945" wrist pins Connecting rods - K1 Technology 012AE29610 forged 4340 H-beam (6.098” with .945” wrist pin) Connecting rod bearings - King CR807SI .010 Oil pump - Melling 10295 with mid-level spring Oil pump barbell - Improved Racing (reusing, with inspection ) Oil pan - Stock 98-02 LS (reusing, with inspection Oil pan baffle - Improved Racing (reusing, with inspection ) Camshaft bearings - King CS5171HPT Camshaft - BTR LS3 Stage 3 v2 (reusing, with inspection) Timing chain - Cloyes Hex-a-Just (reusing, with inspection) Timing chain damper - Trickflow Specialties (reusing, with inspection) Lifter buckets - new GM (reusing, with inspection) Lifters - LS7 (reusing, with inspection) Heads - stock 243 castings Valvesprings - BTR upgraded (reusing, with inspection) Head gaskets - GM 12610046 (4.100" - .051" compressed thickness) Head bolts - reusing ARP (torqued 1 time, reusing with inspection) Pushrods - 7.400" x .080" (reusing, with inspection) Rocker arms - (reusing stock rockers, with inspection)