So i began tearing down my 350 today and expected to see some grime because it had a leaky valve cover gasket and was covered in oil, but i was not perpared for the horrors i found, its true you can learn alot about an engine during the tear down. First my dad and i discovered that it had been overheated, bad, all the intake manifold bolts were nearly stripped of theards and there was sever warpage, also, the rear main seal had blown and had not been properly repair, some ass just somethered the back of the intake in silicon. Then once we get the intake off we find that the heads are horrible, entire passages blocked firmly by metal shavings and grime, i had to take a screwdriver and pry on alot of crap just to see the water passage or intake runner, also, i have a question, a few of my rockers were bent to one side or another, what couldof caused this? I'm not sure what its called but between the heads on the block i guess was this sludge of grease, oil and metal shavings, i cant tait to find out what it came from, thanks for listining, i just thought i should share my first engine build with you guys, later