Im right about where you are but I have to put the engine in (gamble, bought years ago) the car still. Half my pushrods were bent, lifters had skid marks, cam lobe or so wiped and a wicked stretched timing chain. Top it off with every piston had been kissed by every valve. Heads were fairly fresh. I had all the valves checked and somehow manged to have only 1 slightly tweaked intake valve. The motor was apparently over revved at some point and this was the result. Had the valve dealt with, ordered a Summit timing gear set, dug out some stock pushrods, had some new Summit lifters submerged in oil for months doing nothing and a 60K mile 440HP cam with factory springs out of a 70 Challenger RT a relative had lying around so he offered it to me. The motor is clean inside, rods and mains looked good and were standard size in all the journals and the bores looked good with a small ridge up top so I put everything in and ran with it. Lubed the **** out of everything and everything feels looks and sounds good when you turn it. If it dont run right....hello stroked 5.7!
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