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Originally Posted by Warrens69GMC
The guy I got it from, his dad owned the truck since new, and at approx. 150k pulled the motor in favor of a BBC. He always wanted a BBC in his truck, and since he and the truck were "retired", he made his dream a reality.
The paint on the valvecover is silver mist blue or some name like that. Like an old time light blue silver
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150 thousand. OK, cool. That excuses it from the ''picked while still ripe'' bin.
I have run a 292 to 250 K, but my last one was smoking a lot and burning a quart of 50 weight at alarming intervals for the last stretch. Probably not lose much cylinder wall 'meat' in going straight to .030-over. Santucci's book says the first year [MY 1963] has forged iron 6-lobe cranks. He said the '68 cranks were cast steel, but with more dowel pins, bigger bolts and 12-lobes were better balanced. But you can do machining tricks with the iron crank, like knifing or feathering the edges.
Also thinking about a lump-ported head.
When I rebuild this one it will likely get Detroit Diesel Green again. Just to be different. Actually, I think I saw some VHT engine paint in O'Reilly's as "Alpine Green''.
Although Chevy Engine Orange would be period correct for a '67 K/10 Suburban. That Sub had a BBC 454 when I got it. I liked the torque, but it got 6 City and 8 Highway MPG. With gas more than 25 cents a gallon for Premium Leaded, as it was when new, that gets expensive.
Thanks for the info.