Here is the motor sitting on the stand, waiting to be cleaned up and painted with some Plasti-Kote Chevy orange paint. It's just a 260hp GM crate motor. Since it came with the truck, and the short block was in good condition, I just had the heads rebuilt and i'm going to run the pants off this motor. You can also see the pile of parts against the wall.
Here are the freshly milled exhaust manifolds, water pump and timing chain cover in chevy orange, and Edelbrock performer EPS manifold in chevy orange.
Here are the freshly rebuild cylinder heads. They are a weak 194/150 casting i believe, but i had them milled down .020 to raise the compression a little. The chambers were 76 cc i believe and they should now be around 73 cc with the head gaskets i'm going to use. Should give me a whopping 8.4:1 compression! Good for the cruising i intend to do though, I'm definately not going to be racing this thing.
