Just got back from the machine shop at M.E.W. today
There's a lot of issues ahead of me on this engine so I decided to keep it with them if they agree to get started.
Which they oblidged me on.
Heres what I found out:
Apparently sometime in the engines past, it was rebuilt by one of those engine exchange places is Dave's theory. It had a rivet head still in it right near the freeze plug hole. no tag. The block was manafluxed and it came out alright. Dave pointed out that whoever rebuilt it in the past, did a quickie job on it. As I mentioned before; it is pretty certain that the alignment of the last time it was bored out to .060 over was off up to a few degrees. Dave said "yes I could build it like it is but that it would rattle until it warmed up."
The bad news:
One head is in really good shape. The other isn't so hot.
Knurled insert valve guides. So it'll need all new guides. A bunch of valve slop play.
A hairline crack in one of the combustion chambers but isn't very big. Repair or replace: Date code heads: 8/69 & 12/69.
Small wounds on the combustion area on another chamber.
One intake valve seat is hardened. No others.
On another chamber is a repaired crack. All pinned up already. Was good work Angie said.
Sonic checking the block very soon. This will determine whether I go custom pistons .065 or sleeves all 8.
Estimate by Monday.
Crank was magged and came out good.
I'm selling it on E bag along with the pistons and rods to put the money towards a 472 stroker kit from Muscle Motors.
$2,499.00 includes Eagle H beam rods, Eagle crank, Diamond pistons, bearings, pins, and balanced to the gm. That's a hard deal to beat IMO.