Almost time for the machinist!

I stopped by the machinist today on my way home from work today to drop of my valves so he can do the valve job. The heads are done other that the valve job. They look so perrty! They milled them .030 and cleaned them my port job really shines now. He complimented me on my port job said I did an excellent job for that to be my first pair. And gave me some pointers for next time. He said there is 3 or 4 blocks in front of mine and he should have them done by the end of next week so I'm guess maybe 2 week I should have it back. Alot faster than I anticipated. I gotta lot of work to do before then. I'm afraid I'm gonna have a gap of time between getting it back and having the car ready. So I'm gonna be a ole redneck and roll that sucker in my spare bedroom haha. I dont have anywhere inside to keep it and I dont want to let the bores get rusty by keeping it outside unassembled. I'm getting really excited tho this engine has been 17 years in the making. For those that followed my build thread knows this engine was the long term plan I was planning on putting in a 318 and then building the 360 when I got more money. But the 318 didn't work out so I just went straight to the end game. I pulled this engine in the summer of 2003 with the intention of putting it in this same dart. Back then I was still driving the dart and it had the original slant six. And I just never had the funds to do it. It's crazy almost 20 years later here in am so close to having it finished. No wonder I can't sleep haha