time to tear the car apart, gotta make sure it doesn't self destruct at the track.

here's just a mess of pictures of the engine during disassembly.

Here's a picture of the engine hoist that I built.

here's some pictures of the lower end of the engine. 

Toqueing on the rod nuts

here's how plastigauge is used.   pretty neat stuff.  The good news is that all the old bearings were in the .003" range.  all the new bearings went in at .0017".  All the bearings were damn close to the same tolerance.