It really wasn't that long ago that you could pop down to your closest wrecking yard, pull an engine, do a basic re-ring, and slap it back together, because the available cores were mostly clean and ...

Project Groundhog, Part 1: Cleaning up and machining rusty parts from a 2005-era Chevy truck engine that was literally pulled out of a dirt floor. Except for changes in engines and techniques, this is ...