Picked up a 327 block a few weeks ago. Came out of an old Chevy c10 some guy had rotting away in his garage. Opened the hood and saw the "fuelie" heads and decided I would take it off his hands. After running the numbers, turns out it came from a 67 car. It was a 275hp motor when it was brand spanking new. After pulling it apart, really didn't look too bad. I will post up some pictures of my tear down at a later time.
I brought it over to an engine shop to get a little work done. Picked up a set of SpeedPro .030 pistons. Went with a clean bore, torque plate, and ended up having the crank ground. Main is 20 thousandths and rod is 10 thousandths. There was some strange wear on the mains, but no bearings were spun. They were gouged out pretty bad.
I will be picking it up from the machine shot probably next week so I will also post up some finished(pre paint) pictures. Hoping to pick up a 1st or 2nd gen Camaro(up to 73) to put it in. I was originally going to drop it in my 61 CJ5, but decided against it because my shopping list kept getting bigger and bigger.
I am looking to push 350-375 out of it when I'm done. Any more will be an added bonus, but with those cast heads, I don't have much wiggle room. At this point I don't feel like spending $1000 on aluminum heads, so I will stick with my 9.5:1 compression for the time being.
As I said, I will post up some pictures soon and one of these days find a car to put it in. Working a little backwards, but it's all good!