512BB engine

We pulled this engine from a '79 512BB to do a major service, belts, valve adjust, etc..
I could not re-install this engine into the chassis because it looked terrible from years of deterioration.

BB engine covers are full of louvers and when the car gets washed or driven in the rain water pools on top of the engine and corrodes the block and rusts the fasteners. There is no amount of cleaning that can be done to clean the inner webs of the casting so I had to super clean the block and re-paint. I then sent the hardware off for re-plating and detailed some other things. Gotta love that new wrinkle finish!

The engine is looking great and will probably be the first youtube post of a engine running out of the chassis that I have done. I will post the link here in the next few weeks. Hopefully I will have a number of other engine test stand runs to post before the end of the year. Stay posted.