Mount Engine on Stand & Initial Inspection

keeping the current piston cranking rods correct yeah so where we use all the bottom end if we can it should be okay but unless we're here to find out i have never touched this thing it's been in there for three years i've driven it i don't even know how many miles okay several several thousand it did all of race week and until i tore it apart i hadn't even unbolted the driver's side header since i first put the thing together it's good that's a good engine life for sure so that's definitely nice yeah i don't know if you can tell cylinder walls feel good i mean just initially you know there's no real scoring or anything like that so even this surface rust is it looks like it's kind of wiped off yeah it's not that big you know we bump the home through it it should come right out um that'll be the biggest driver if we really need so if we need pistons or not so you've got the condition of the pistons and position of the cylinder walls if the the pistons can dimensionally be okay but if the cylinder walls are way out of round or there's some issues there then we may get into a condition where we have too much piston to the wall clearance for for the current pistons and we would want to change pistons for that reason to go up the next size or the pistons themselves are not dimensionally correct there's something wrong with the the skirts are collapsed or the ring lands are not flat anymore lifted ring land something like that would cause us to use new pistons and then in that case we would most likely go to the next side if it's a 4 125 we try to go to 4 130 and get the cylinders nice and round and straight so that's what we'll find out here if it needed new pistons i wouldn't consider that the worst thing ever