MRL Performance

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Maybe this is why the guy with the 670 engine left. He hasnt been on here since 2016.
 
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Fiddlerfingers said:
Well my motor that was built by mike and it leaked oil from several areas. It leaked twice on the dyno through the rear main. Mike charged me for machine work but now that its at another shop i found out he never ported the heads, didnt machine or redeck the block. I bought his roller lifters and 1 failed after less the 1500 miles. I know why he is out of business. There are alot of people with my same story. I had at least 8 others contact me after i gave him a honest bad review. Mikes reply was that no builder guarantees a motor from leaking oil.
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Not trying to reopen wounds here, but, the engine in my sig pic was built by Mike at MRL. Life has dealt me and my family some lemons starting not long after I paid him $11,000 for my 360 and so I still haven't started the engine. It should be started in the next couple weeks as the restoration/reassembly is being completed. I didn't read this thread after I posted in 2017. Just seeing all this now. Your comment about him not porting the heads calls to mind what my dad said when he pulled the tape off the exhaust ports... "It doesn't look like these heads have been ported". I questioned Mike and he said they received full stage 3 CNC porting. This is my first build ever so I'm not very mechanically inclined, and, at the time, naive and trusting. I have a dyno sheet that says it made 534hp and 484 ft/lb. It's a standard bore 360, not a stroker.

All I can do at this point is cross my fingers that it runs. After reading all this, the power it does or doesn't make is irrelevant. I can't do anything about it now anyway.....
 
Superod said:
Not trying to reopen wounds here, but, the engine in my sig pic was built by Mike at MRL. Life has dealt me and my family some lemons starting not long after I paid him $11,000 for my 360 and so I still haven't started the engine. It should be started in the next couple weeks as the restoration/reassembly is being completed. I didn't read this thread after I posted in 2017. Just seeing all this now. Your comment about him not porting the heads calls to mind what my dad said when he pulled the tape off the exhaust ports... "It doesn't look like these heads have been ported". I questioned Mike and he said they received full stage 3 CNC porting. This is my first build ever so I'm not very mechanically inclined, and, at the time, naive and trusting. I have a dyno sheet that says it made 534hp and 484 ft/lb. It's a standard bore 360, not a stroker.

All I can do at this point is cross my fingers that it runs. After reading all this, the power it does or doesn't make is irrelevant. I can't do anything about it now anyway.....
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11,000 for a claimed 534hp 360?

I'd say you were steered wrong...like pants down into a corner
 
And this right here is the reason you keep whipping, kicking, slaughtering that horse!!
$11k, wow sorry to read Superod, hope the issues your family was dealt was "resolved". Good luck with the fire-up!
Surprised fabo didnt send a bouquet basket off to Mike Liston to wish him well on his new ventures :rofl:
Superod said:
Not trying to reopen wounds here, but, the engine in my sig pic was built by Mike at MRL. Life has dealt me and my family some lemons starting not long after I paid him $11,000 for my 360 and so I still haven't started the engine. It should be started in the next couple weeks as the restoration/reassembly is being completed. I didn't read this thread after I posted in 2017. Just seeing all this now. Your comment about him not porting the heads calls to mind what my dad said when he pulled the tape off the exhaust ports... "It doesn't look like these heads have been ported". I questioned Mike and he said they received full stage 3 CNC porting. This is my first build ever so I'm not very mechanically inclined, and, at the time, naive and trusting. I have a dyno sheet that says it made 534hp and 484 ft/lb. It's a standard bore 360, not a stroker.

All I can do at this point is cross my fingers that it runs. After reading all this, the power it does or doesn't make is irrelevant. I can't do anything about it now anyway.....
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Superod said:
Not trying to reopen wounds here, but, the engine in my sig pic was built by Mike at MRL. Life has dealt me and my family some lemons starting not long after I paid him $11,000 for my 360 and so I still haven't started the engine. It should be started in the next couple weeks as the restoration/reassembly is being completed. I didn't read this thread after I posted in 2017. Just seeing all this now. Your comment about him not porting the heads calls to mind what my dad said when he pulled the tape off the exhaust ports... "It doesn't look like these heads have been ported". I questioned Mike and he said they received full stage 3 CNC porting. This is my first build ever so I'm not very mechanically inclined, and, at the time, naive and trusting. I have a dyno sheet that says it made 534hp and 484 ft/lb. It's a standard bore 360, not a stroker.

All I can do at this point is cross my fingers that it runs. After reading all this, the power it does or doesn't make is irrelevant. I can't do anything about it now anyway.....
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I’d be really curious to know how he got that kind of power out of a stock stroke and standard bore 360.
 
IQ52 said:
I'll be 70 yrs old in December. I live in the mountains of Idaho.

I will spend more time here.............

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A bayonet is to kill.....from my Army basic training......

And yet this thread has some good memories from page 2.

Two years ago I watch a bull elk fight two wolves in the top of the open area. Finally the wolves had had enough of that big bull, left him and loped down towards the rock in the foreground. The bull returned to his two bull elk buddies who had watched the entire encounter without offering him any help.
 
IQ52 said:
A bayonet is to kill.....from my Army basic training......

And yet this thread has some good memories from page 2.

Two years ago I watch a bull elk fight two wolves in the top of the open area. Finally the wolves had had enough of that big bull, left him and loped down towards the rock in the foreground. The bull returned to his two bull elk buddies who had watched the entire encounter without offering him any help.
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Wow ! That is an amazing experience.
My favorite part of hunting is watching the natural interactions between animals .
 
3 Wolves sleeping during our hunt this year .

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I've been to sniper school/your GOOD to sneak up on a apex predator//with no LOOKOUT!!

although they do look fat from the gut piles!! They have some of the best noses out there ....I'm a protected species ***** !!:rofl:
 
Here the game animals have learned better how to cope with the wolves since their re-introduction and the wolf presence has actually enhanced the wilderness experience. The encounter I wrote of isn't the only interaction we've had with the wolves and they've all been exciting. I have no desire to ever shoot one of them.
 
IQ52 said:
Here the game animals have learned better how to cope with the wolves since their re-introduction and the wolf presence has actually enhanced the wilderness experience. The encounter I wrote of isn't the only interaction we've had with the wolves and they've all been exciting. I have no desire to ever shoot one of them.
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Key word, wilderness. Up here we have encounters that need to be attended to as they get closer and closer to our domain.
Do you take your dog hunting ? My partner lost his to a wolf. There is one less dog and one less wolf.
 
Cody's German Shepherd has never been attacked by a wolf through all the encounters.

A mountain lion? Yes.

A wolf? No.

Both mountain lion and Shepherd survived the experience.

This place is exciting!
 
First off I bow hunt and it would be unwise to stick one up close and not kill it . Fight or flight ????

Second I dont fall for the little red riding hood BS . If they didnt eat all the elk prior to the 1900s when there were 10s of thousands of them I doubt they will impact them today . We still have depridation elk hunts due to over population .

Third , I want to see as much wildlife out there as possible and dont feel compelled to kill everything that crosses my path .
 
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