haven't felt like posting for a while, but wanted to say your motor looks great. the only thing i used to do diff. is paint the heads, block and pan before i bolted them together, so when you did bolt it to gather you could see the new gaskets. in other words i didn't paint over the gaskets. ever body has he's own way. i've pulled a motor back out of a car, because the paint got to looking a little bad and dissemble the motor, painted each peace, bought new gaskets, and put the motor back together and put it back in the veh. and didn't do anything else to it.