From this pic i would say who ever built the motor knew what they where doing. No body commented about it but the hoses coming from back of the block to the heads is to feed constant oil pressure to the heads. The big blocks have two holes in the cam that feeds the both heads but it's not continuous. Might put bore scope in the spark plug holes and have a look with out taking the heads off. Any motor sitting for a length of time can rust up.

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