351 Windsor Budget Build, No Machine Shop!

In this video we cleaned the engine and began reassembling it. If you enjoy the video please check out my other videos.

[sebastianstephenson]

About how much did you spend and how long did it take for the build? I was thinking about picking my Windsor out and building it. Not sure where to start.

[hrodriguez]

you are a master tech. Meanwhile my nephew is crying cause his girlfriend dumped him. He should be spending his time on things like this.

[jasonkubik]

Little cam bearing advice. Knock out all the bearings first, then do the rear bearing first and move your way forward. When you get to the front bearing, spin the block around and align from the rear, do this will help keep the bearing squared up.

[kolbys.]

It’s really nice to see somebody about my age tackling a job like this, I hope it treats you well

[jlermzgt]

Glad to see some have interest in working on engines now a days kids are lazy and unmotivated 🤙🏽 keep it up

[georgesam]

Not exactly a rebuild but your on the right track. I hope this is the first of many engines you build. I built my first engine at 13. Was working in a full rebuild shop by 16. Owned my own hi-perf shop by 22. Glad to see young guys still interested in tearing apart v-8s. Brings back memories of the early I’m talking in the 80’s. We had no internet, YouTube or any help like that. Just Chilton manuals and hi perf speed books that we would buy. I still have em. Kinda funny looking them over nowadays.
Anyways, good luck. Stick with it !!!!

[ProdigyAutomotive]

Tip for block cleaning: Use the wirewheel with the sprial wires coming from the center to clean cast iron blocks, it works even faster than the regular wirewheel, great video brother.

[The.church.of.scientology]

I love the simplicity of this video, I'm sure a lot of people would disagree about not taking it to a machine shop but if it ain't broke don't fix it! Great job. Thinking of getting an 85' bronco with a 351 and would definitely wanna do a rebuild like this! Awesome video man keep it up

[DanielLinden-lc]

Put the cam in before the crank so you can support it so you don't gouge the cam brgs with each cam lobe and when you clean the deck. Surfaces use a hand straight board sander also used for body work their about 14" long w/220 grit does a nice job.before assy. Always wash w/hot soapy water air dry, then oil wipe asap.detergent washes away the grit solvent won't (can never be too clean on a rebuild)when you use a dingle ball hone to deglaze, slow the drill down to achieve a 45 cross hatch as you finish your last pull on the way out.nice job young man have fun liked your video 😊

[dennisborg]

Great job. You did a fantastic job cleaning all your parts. Super time-consuming. But by having everything so nice and clean. When you start that engine up you don’t destroy it. It’s one of the most important parts of a rebuild and certainly the Least fun!

[ryanhardy]

Nice. Good to see young men picking up the hobby. Maybe lower the music volume next time tho.

[Scubasteve]

Glad to see a someone your age using their hands and making something cool out of it. The things we learn over time and a couple key points to solidify your knowledge are:
Paint block before assembly
Put front cam bearing in from back to align straight
Put cam in first with lube from mfr, and lube whole thing before install
Make sure those new pistons weigh within a couple grams of old ones, or rebalance
Take rocker arms off and readjust lifters with new cam
Hope all went well!

[Snakez]

Very cool, keep wrenching, keep learning.

[TheChipmunkRox]

Little tip if all you are doing is putting a cross hatch in the cylinders then a ball hone is ok but you you are trying to make sure the cylinders are straight you need a stone hone

[toweringhorse]

Great video man. Reminds me of when I would build SBC’s with my dad when I was 15

[ernesttamayo]

This is an amazing video. I could watch this all day. Great job kid. I’m trying to figure out what to do to get my 351 w ready. Top end rebuild. So much to learn.

[hegonefishing]

Regardless of whether it's a grenade or not is yet to be seen, but you are learning and having a blast I can tell. Let me tell you that's what it's really about, i have built expensive machine shop builds and I have built what I call "grenade motors" with the least $$$
possible those how long they last and everything in-between. Irregardless they where all fun, i have 3
Cleveland blocks(one 4 bolt xxx block) and 3 sets of heads. I plan to build the 4 bolt one with all high
end internals and stainless valves/guides in the closed chamber solid lifter heads.
Then I'm gonna build a grenade motor with the 2bolt block using 10.5 to 1 pistons & aggressive cam and the 2v heads.
At the moment I'm running a combination of the two with a 4bolt main block with stock crank 9.5
to 1 and 2v open chambers with the stainless valve/guide upgrade and a little more than mild r.v. type upgrade cam with headers and 500cfm holley I got 340hp.
But now I want to start in on another one and you have motivated my ol' keister to get this stuff out and get going on it.

[johnnymula]

One important piece of advice that should be stressed to would be home engine builders. When honing piston cylinders, you need to know theres two types of honing tools. The one you used is ok if its just a crosshatch pattern thats needed. But if theres any lip at all on the top most portion, you need to use a three stone piston honing tool instead.

[lanceamerica]

I'm rebuilding my 1986 351W right now 😊 I enjoyed this video

[olblu]

Cool, l'll do that on my windsor too. Thanks