Finally an update. As mentioned head is back from Korman. Valve cover is powder coated Air Force Blue cause that's where Bryce will be going (fingers crossed). He received letter's of assurance from West Point and Naval Academy. Air Force will let him know in January. The terribly sad thing after all this work is he can't take his car out until his junior year
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I ended up sending the crank to MM to cut the extra keyway. Jim turned it around very fast and it's now back at my local machine shop checking balance and assembly balance. The guys at the shop said it probably wasn't necessay but I figured there's too much time and money invested not to be 100% sure.
Finally go the rear subframe back in today. Here it is before it went in. Looks a lot better than when it came out that's for sure, but more importantly all new rubber bushings. Rear end is a 4.27 lsd out of a vert. I replaced the seals and o-rings. I know the rust on the back end is abhorent. Body work will be done once Bryce is in school. I don't htink he'd let me take it off the road again until he's gone.
Remanned from BMW, salty but I've had issues with some other remanned units so we'll see how they do
And finally I rebuilt the calipers. It was obvious the right rear was not retracting as it should. Removed the rust using a storage tub, rebar, a battery charger and borax solution. That was really cool to watch and did a great job. They were so bad going in I really didn't think they were salvageable, but they turned out alright and pistons move freely now.
Once I get the crank back I'll get the head mounted with the old gasket to double check valve clearance. Check bearing clearances and if everything is okay we'll get her buttoned back up. For future readers Ray Korman told me the 84mm OEM head gaskets are good for a +1 overbore so that's what I'll be using. Thought that was good info.
