New Gm 350 Block

[DirtyLarry]

Man, I dunno….I bought a brand new crate 454HO for my ’78 K10 a few years ago and when I poured the coolant in it on start up day it was pouring out on the floor as fast as I was pouring it in. Naturally, I thought the intake was leaking and the coolant was just pouring down the side of the block. Because, you know, I though the General wouldn’t make a huge mistake or anything.

WRONG….look at the left cylinder head. It is missing a ton of metal right at the water jacket! No wonder the head gasket would not seal.

It even gets better…..no GM dealer would warranty the head (or the engine) because it was past the 12 month warranty, as I bought the engine then did the usual budget program saving lunch money and saving spare change for all the accessories, etc before I screwed it all together about 18 months later. It cost me another $500 for a brand new head. To make matters worse, I worked for the fricken company and still could not get any help from the GMSPO rep. 4 years later this still pisses me off all over again just thinking of it.

Other than my sad story, I have never heard of any bad things with new GM performance engine, blocks, etc. If I were to buy another….it too would be a GMPP engine.