Junkyard 5.9L Magnum + Edelbrock LA heads build

Good news (well, not for my bank account LOL), major machining has been completed on the Edelbrocks and Jim at Racer Brown has finished up my cam. I decided I'm going to just leave the short block alone; if I get the engine together and it burns a bunch of oil and has no compression well then sh*t, I'll get an LA 360 block and machine that. I highly doubt that would be the case though as my old 318 did that and it had all the tell-tale signs of worn bores. This block has no ridges at all at the tops of the cylinders, I can't feel any difference and certainly can't catch a nail on it.

It's harder to tell from the pics but the spots in the cylinders where the honing finish is worn away coincides with where the head bolt holes are. Just goes to show that having your cylinders honed with a torque plate installed actually does make a difference. Chrysler engineers actually figured out that problem and redesigned the head bolt holes on the Gen 3 Hemis btw.

@rumblefish360 I totally forgot lol my mistake, I did mention painting my aluminum heads... you are right from that pic I wasn't able to tell it had non-factory heads, very nice