Might I suggest taking your main bearings, rod bearings, and pistons. Sending them to Modern Performance to have the anti-friction coating put on them. Also, If you are going to do the build, might want to look into getting new bearings for the lower end. Clevette 77 bearings. And go ahead and get the bottom end stud kit. That changes the load of the bolts from the threads to the nuts. therefore you gain durability and you will need all the durability you can get w/ the high compression.

 

^ have to agree I'm currently rebuild a small block chev for my truck and i'll only run the clevite 77 bearings and i'm deff considering getting them coated... also thinking about getting the pistons coated also... seems to be a big trend in getting internals coated but for good reason take a look at the high hp builds and you won't see a single engine without coatings on the bearings and pistons at least... some even go as far as coating the combustion chamber of the head.... hell even the intake manifolds are getting coated with stuff to keep them cooler...

 

so i am going to get the clevite 77 bearings and as far as the coating..im looking at it if it blows it blows...i have a suburban,charger(hemi) or civic i can drive in the mean time hahaha...

 

it won't blow without a coating it just helps make more power lol...

 

its just gonna be a DD so i want to add power but im not looking to squeeze every single drop of hp i can out of it..just something to get up and going every once in awhile

 

so i decided last minute not to go sohc and decided to go DOHC...the head is at a shop getting cleaned up and im having the valves cut...

 

cool...only advantage to that is setting the intake and exhaust cams independently...can be a big advantage if you decide to change out the internals and go turbo...easier to get turbo parts for a DOHC

 

i live in cali going turbo only got one option and thats a srt-4 engine...so if i go high compression and get pulled over a cop wont know....

 

does crane not produce the cams for neons anymore?? i went to their website and found nothing..if anyone has or knows anyone who is selling DOHC crane 16 cams...let me know thank you

 

here are some pics of just the block