All the machine work is done on the block. The “month or so” I expected it to take to get the backordered cam in turned out to be closer to 5 months, but it finally made it last week. My machinist likes to have the cam on hand when he installs the cam bearings (so he can make sure there won’t be any binding issues).

With that done the block finally came home and I chased the threaded holes, painted it and installed the freeze plugs and pipe plugs. It’s lot nicer looking than the ball of rust I brought home 3 years ago.

354 block by M Patterson, on Flickr

The crank’s out to be ground and then it and the rotating assembly will be balanced. So back to waiting .