Your suggestions please, I am jonesing to build.

hemijoejr said

Hey Hemied! What are the dimentions of then pistons you have? (pin size, bore size, and pin height) I have several 3.480 stroke, 340 journal cranks that I bought when IROC closed it's doors. Your set of pistons might work with those cranks. Let me know if you want to get rid of the pistons if you decide to fix the 340.

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I think these may have come from that same close out deal. There was a lot of it on ebay just a few years ago.
The pistons and crank were Mopar Performance.
I would have to do some digging to find the specs on the pistons at home, because my memory is getting bad. But they are 4.06 bore and carried a MP part number for a 3.45 stroke crank.
I bought them thinking I might have to cut some off of the top, as they might end up as much as .030 out of the hole, but didn't have to, they ended up @ 0 deck height. They are standard pin size.

Been stewing on this hard this afternoon, with some great input here. I don't really want to break that motor down past the short block, it is just too nice. I will definately keep you in mind if I go that way.