Picked up a block today, .030 over newly machined with new freeze plugs and cam bearings installed, but looks as if it's been sitting in a shop for some time. Here's the plan, about an hour away there's a guy that I know of that has a strip tank for car bodies, it TOTALLY strips paint and rust from steel so I've pulled all plugs and cam bearings out of this thing and I'll drop it to him tomorrow to see how it works removing rust from blocks. Hopefully cleaning the water jackets so it's ready for hardblok on the inside and super clean everywhere else. some probably think I'm crazy for using a stock block, but I promise I have a plan. This will be a backup engine (if it ever runs) to a real nice one later. Nothing special here, certainly no worse than the 2-bolt we had.
