Remember my Corvette? The sad, 1985 grand tourer that I just couldn’t stop myself from buying last fall? If you’ve forgotten, I forgive you. For most of the winter, I forgot about this poor car, too.

In this video, we begin building an LS engine completely from scratch — every bolt, every measurement, every clearance checked by hand. From prepping the block to installing crank, pistons, cam, and ...