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longest lasting job was building my VE from 3 cores and then swapping it into the car. took almost 2 years from when I blew the engine in the car until it was running again.
longest job I worked on STRAIGHT? hmmm.
1. prepping the car for IASCA World finals in 2000. worked for about 4 days straight on it with only 1-2 hours of sleep per night until the event was over.
2. swapping engines on a customer car. 2 1/2 days straight.
drove 3 hrs to Austin after getting off work on a friday night to diagnose a "starting problem" on his VG.. wound up being a broken timing belt. I told him the engine was toast, but he wanted me to put a belt on it and see if it would run anyway. all 12 valves were bent on it- engine gone.
So we went to a junkyard and got another engine, then pulled the dead one out, swapped the new belt and water pump off the dead engine, pull the heads and installed new HGs and cleaned all the varnish out of the engine, then reassembled..
installed engine and the fcuker wouldn't run right. fuel injectors went bad sitting at the junk yard. so I had to pull the intake manifold off AGAIN and swap all 6 injectors with the ones from his old engine. finally got it running about 10pm on sunday, then had to drive 8 hours north to see family for the weekend.
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