FINAL BUILD no 302 heads

If I were you and had the time I would find a local machine shopand see if they could use some help on Saturdays cleaning and dissasembling blocks and talk to the owner while youre there and work out the best course of action.May get some breaks you can use. I did this years ago and now am best friends with the machinist and I keep hisplumbing at his house and shop and he has helped me build my third motor the 500 ci. indy head roller cam beast in my avatar for the cost of parts. A little hard work and horse trading go a long way.