Score!!

[dubie]

I went next door to check and see how my hillbilly mechanic neighbour was making out with his engine swap in his beater 71 GMC. He bought this truck for $500, swapped the tranny to an automatic because he is missing half of his left foot, painted it in his driveway with rustoleum gloss black and has his drivers bucket seat sitting on 4 pieces of ready rod. I have pics of this thing on my computer at home I'll have to post.
Anyways..............he was complaining that he couldn't find a friggin starter to fit the 350 that was in the truck, so he shimmed one up. It worked for a while until the shimming gave out and the nose cone buckled in the housing. He got pissed off yank the engine and is putting in his .20 bored over 350. So he gave me the old engine out of the truck if I wanted it. I ran the casting number thru www.mortec.com and found out it's a 4 bolt 400!!! and the thing has also been bored, but this one is .30 over!! I have al the parts to make a complete engine out of it except for the heads. Looks like Shawnas 58 might have a little bit bigger engine dropped in now. Save the 283 for a rainy day
So he told me to either take the block and put it in my shed or he'll just haul it to the dump, so needless to say, it's comin home tonight!