Hello and How bad does this look?

last post was encouraging, i thought so lol

So you your saying I have hope? Lmao.... the pics here is where Im at now. What should I look for and check to verify everything is ok :) thank u all btw. I love this place!!!

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Ok! Now as I was washing oil thru the valley and emptying the rest of the coolant (WATER) out from radiator, Small ice came out of the lower hose! I proceeded to take the oil drain plug out to rinse oil thru and found that the driver side freeze plug came out!! Really starting to piss me off lol... but Im still going to shoot for using this block at least until I can save up to get another! Opinions?

BTW, the freeze plug still looks good as in no rust or anything! I gently tried to push it in their to see of it would hold and it will definitley have to be tapped in their! Dont know if thats a good sign or not~!

clean that plug hole, lightly sand it clean, then install a new freeze plug. yes it needs to be tapped in there.

you may want to do chemical flush after you get it running, then flush and add new coolant, its awful rusty looking.

the front pistons look much better tho. the deck could be a bit cleaner.

Thank you a whole lot scottydoggs for all this help :) I really appreciate it! And I havent gotten to deck just yet. Still havent pulled rear head off to see whats going back there lol... Im waiting for ported heads, etc before I tear into the rear only because of the crap weather we have been getting recently! Unfortunatly I dont own a garage so I have trashbags and towels in holes and what nots lmao

you can spray all the exposed metal with wd-40 it will prevent any further rust.


wd-40 stands for water displacement 40th formula. its was made to keep bombs from rusting while in storage and stuff like that back in the day.

Pulled rear head off and head gasket held and looks fine :) I think I may have a good chance here lol... Got some of my parts here and waiting for the rest! BTW, EGR can suck my balls! That was horrible to manuever lmao

May even delete EGR because of it

Umm why does 3800 performance take along time to ship parts out??

When did you order?

As Scotty said throw some chemicals or something in the coolant to clean all that rust in there.

I ordered I believe last week and still dont have a shipping number. I wrote an email yesterday and havent heard anything back. I spent like 1500 there too on headers... 2 aerospace gauges... and piller and he shipped the pillar but that was it :(

Ugh. So heads are back on as well as valve train. Not gonna lie pretty nervous on how it will start lol