[Slammed84]

I put a Goodwrench engine in my original 84' back in the day. It cost me around $2000 but that was with a chevy dealer installing it as well.

I was only 16 at the time and had no wrench skills nor the tools to pull it off myself.

Years later ( no problems at all ) I decided I needed more power and set out to build it into a vortec headed motor with a mild cam and roller rockers. I also ran a Holley 670 carb. I should've got a slight stall converter because with my 3.08 gears it was kinda sluggish but would scream from 3000rpm up.

However we did find, when we pulled it apart, that the main and piston bearings where all different sizes. Like way off.

These are mass produced engines made in Mexico. They are by no means a bad engine but IMO they could've put a little more effort into the machining process instead of just slapping different size bearings in there to fill in the gaps...

Hell the engine had virtually no wear on it and I still had to turn the crank and resize the rods a bit just to put a standard size bearing set in it.