Just Purchased Virgin 340 Short - What to do with Pistons

One of the funniest builds I ever did was with stock 340 pistons. I sold my buddy my 1972 Duster and he needed an engine. I told him I would build him one for 5.00 labor. He laughed and said 5.00 and I said ya go get 5.00 worth of jawbreakers and as a group we ate them while assembling his engine. Stock crank, rods, pistons, 484 purple shaft cam, reworked and gently polished set of 2.02 valve heads I sold him, portosonic intake, 850 Holley, and headers. He was a dirt track guy so this was his first drag car. He ran 12.40’s the first weekend out. We got it in the 12.20’s the next time out with some tuning and he took 2nd place. The story turned bad after the car sat for a few years and he got in with a bad crowd. We nicknamed that engine the jawbreaker engine.