Opened up an old 400 - what is this???

Why in the fuckin' **** would you stamp the cylinder numbers on the block? That's the stupidest thing I ever heard and I bet this block was a fluffer at a trade school so the dope smoking kids wouldn't spend all day making ninja stars and ****.

I would deck that off if you're going to use anything other composite head gaskets. At the very least, stone those number stamps flat.
I'm assuming your kids don't look on here or you don't have any