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Sounds like a lot of years on a race short block without checking/replacing at least the bearings.

I hate to hear of big failures when preventative maintenance might have avoided it.

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This one was built to be a pump gas motor that might make 8 to 10 passes in the 1/4 in its life to find out what the car would run at LACR back in the 1990s, mainly a trailer queen that was taken to car shows. Plans and things change, you wouldn't beleive the whole story behind this rascal It bit me on the butt twice , I didn't want to use that block to start with due to two external cracks and one internal casting flaw in the cooling passages at the bottom of #6 cylinder that leak coolant into the motor from day one OH WELL some lessons are hard to learn and enforce I now insist that it is my way in my shop or I don't take the job on Sometimes it does not pay to be nice to the customer and go out of your way to make them happy, especially when it ends up making both of you very unhappy