Help on 318 purchase - Newbie mechanic questions.

Casting numbers can fool you.

Rebuild it for use! Not as an experiment! The. Use it to see if you did it right and drive the socks out of it. Once you get a good few years use out of it and log 15K a year in driving it without problems, then you can say "I did it right!"

Have to build my confidence before the motor! Lol!

If you guys help me out then I will give it a shot.