I read it a couple times and enjoyed the knowledge sharing as I do with plenty of posts on this forum, if I can learn something new daily and apply it to my cars I’m happy. Thanks for the post.
You guys are so lucky with your engine cores, down under we are lucky to get a teen for a k, and good luck finding a 340 for less than 4K for a rebuilder.
Same with the water my mate used to hook his wiper washer reservoir into the carb and whilst driving on the freeway inject the water in and plumes of crap left the engine.
Some new pistons to get compression up, run a mixer instead of carb, and run on propane. I'm down under so going in a ute, ie a small pickup. Already have propane running on a 318 with about 7:1 comp, has no guts
I picked a 360 block cheap that's been blasted all over including lifters, mains and cam, pretty much everything. Is it junk now or just additional machine work required?