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My new 350 or should I say 353:



Doesn't look like much yet. It's been bored .020" over and had .010" cut off the deck. I just installed the freeze plugs/galley plugs today and it will be painted by the end of tonight. Tommorow I will file fit the rings and hopefully get the bottom end assembled.

whatcha gunna run it in? wanted to say thanks for the advice regarding my 383 plus the MSD............33delivery

It's going in my 1976 GMC pickup. I'll get some more pictures tommorow. It's kind of a rat rod right now, but I don't intend to keep it that way. I bought the truck for cheap and it has been my reliable daily driver. The old engine was getting a little worn out and I had $2500 burning a hole in my pocket from my summer internship on a ship so I decided to build a new engine for it. I am glad I did to, one of the cam bearings was shot and I had 3 broken piston rings.

Day 2 is done. I file fit the rings, the tops are set to .030" gap and the 2nd are set between .016 and .018". I had to file some of the 2nd rings because they were too tight. I installed the cam and then the crank. Everything was going great, but as I was tightening the rear main cap, at about 45 ft lbs, it popped. Looks like I'll be buying a helicoil tommorow. I was a little upset about that. The rest of the bottom end is ready to be put in. I have all of the rings fit on the pistons. I still need to put the pistons on the rods and then they'll be ready to drop in the hole.



How do I get my pictures to show up as pictures instead of links?

Day 3, it is officially a short block. The stripped out hole set me back someI am a day behind what I would like to be. I wanted to have the engine running at the end of tommorow. I did install a helicoil and am confident that it will hold up. Onto the next problem. I set the dowel pins for the heads in a little deeper than I would like and can't get them back out. I will either need to knock them into the water jacket or drill them out. I don't like the idea of having loose dowel pins in my waterjacket even though I know they will drop right to the bottom and have no effect on anything.