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Fun second car, wrenching at home for most things, but normally I leave bigger stuff too a mechanic. Fluids, breaks, some electronics, some engines stuff I am comfortable with, but no pulling the engine/trans, not going to redo much suspension wise etc. I have zero history on the car and from what I understand, it is a daily driver or was until the mentioned balancer issues. Alberta. Yes we use salt/sand, but I have seen some pretty clean cars despite that. I know the Bonnieville is an H-Body and I know the chassis is different, but figured both have an L67 so enthusiasts of that engine, which most W-Body owners are, may have experience with both. I know the Regal and the Grand Prix pre-03(?) had an issue with rusting strut towers for sure which was a w-body thing. resources for H-body cars are pretty sparse and probably will become even more rare over time.

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A little bit of an update: thanks to Grandpa Biden and the newest economic stimulus package, my tentative completion goals have been pushed up to this summer; if at very least have the engine in the car (but not necessarily driving around). Anyway, simply put, I'll be buying more car parts to finish things. In the meantime: I've received my Furches Performance oil pan, and have it loosely bolted to the motor. I sent the heads off to the machine shop for a once over and everything came back as good (I still have to go pick them up). Pressure washed the long block with some degreaser and aluminum brightener before teardown to try and clean it up a bit. There was still some heavy staining, so I opted to rattle-bomb the block and front cover with some cast aluminum, even know it'll never get seen by anybody except me (shrugs). Stripped the LS4 engine harness (and most of a 2000 truck harness) down for complete rewiring into Monte. I talked with Brandon at Furches Performance and opted to just one-stop shop for all my engine stuff. I'm getting his full DOD-delete package (including gaskets and hardware) in addition to a custom grind cam. This leaves me with just incidentals like hoses, fluids, etc to get at this point. Did a little bit more grinding on the motor mount to clear the output shaft. It didn't take much more and now I'm debating using it and just adding a spacer bracket to to bolt the two together, or just do a one piece motor/ trans mount. Thoughts?