Another very mild 440 build.....

Thanks guys.....This wasn’t a clean sheet of paper build......

The story behind this one is that the customer buys a car out of state and has it shipped to his place.
They go to unload it and the oil pressure is almost zero and there’s a lot of noise.
Car gets delivered to the shop that’s doing the r&r....... to see if they can figure out what’s wrong with it.
Start it up, near zero oil pressure, lots of noise.
No one knows how long that’s been going on, so they pull it out.
The pan comes off and there’s what’s left of a shredded up shop rag wrapped around the oil pick up.
Okay, mystery solved(other than the question of how it got there).
There is rag shreds throughout the motor.
It’s a used motor with a previous stock type low CR rebuild.
The bearings look okay-ish, but there is some slight scuffing on a few pistons, and the cam & lifters aren’t nice enough to put back in.
The heads would need going through again, etc.
The pistons that were in it had a 1.912ch(down the hole about .170”).
The decision was made to step it up a little....... so new pistons with a 1.969ch were ordered, along with the usual stuff, rings, bearings, gaskets, oil pump, new oil pick up, etc, along with a mild exhaust manifold friendly cam & lifters, and timing set.
The cost to go through the stock heads was close enough to the Stealth heads where that upgrade got the nod.
The engine had a Torker II intake on it, but the owner wanted a stock one instead(it’s just a mild cruiser and he wanted the stock look).

So....... after the repairs/upgrades....... that’s how it turned out.
Not bad at all imo.