I decided to spend some more time today to finish up the LQ4 tear down.  I was having issues being able to get the crank bolt off, even with my 350 ft lb electric impact wrench.  So I had to end up putting the flexplate back on to lock the crank into place.  Breaker bar and a little muscle later it was off so I pulled the flex plate back off.  Went to pull the crank pulley off and remembered just how much the HFT 3 arm pullers sucked.  Went to Advance Auto and rented the nice jawed puller they have that I used when I did my cam swap.  Of course I had jumped the gun by pulling the flexplate off again since the puller was spinning the crank so I once again installed the plate.  Couple minutes later the pulley was off and I went to down on breaking it all down.  Couple hours later I ended up with a nice bare block ready to be re-molded into a nice power plant for the future.

And on a plus note for the build, I received the first on a long list of parts that will end up going into the build.  A set of Brian Tooley Racing Slow Leakdown Rate lifters.  Let the pile of parts begin!