Finally I got the HX35 together, bagged and put up. I have since bought an EFI Source Gold Box MS3 ECU. I found out that Crower is discontinuing their Sportsman rods. It was nice of Esslinger to announce they only had 3 sets left, so of course I bought a set. My cylinders (miraculously if you read the internet) are still only a couple thou taper and out of round AFTER filling the block, so I bought a set of standard hyper pistons. It's next to impossible to find some forged pistons for std bore, but I broke down and ordered a set from Racer Walsh. I'll have to send the Hyper's back to Summit. The forged pistons are flattops which will bring the compression ratio to a whopping 8.98:1.
So, good rods, forged pistons, a huge aftermarket fuel rail. Left on my shopping list will be somewhere around 100lb injectors so I can run E85. It's so hard to find around here I may just run a lot of water meth and 93 octane.
Today my brother brought over his cam bearing tool and we installed the auxiliary shaft bearings. The back one was a little tight so it took a little polishing with some 1000 grit and a scotchbrite pad. It's smooth as silk turning now. Maybe tomorrow or next weekend...depending on how long I have to spend at work tomorrow, I'll throw the dingle ball to her. Wash the block and crank again really good.
Then it will be assembly time. I bought a phone gimbal thingamabob. I might try to video my fat ass putting the engine together. Of course, I'll have to edit all the audio since I crank up Pandora in the garage and Youtube will throw fits over copyrighted music. Even worse, I could put my air buds in and get caught singing to the music.
My singing is about the same as Trump's tact.