HUNTER'S 1978 GMC C15 SIERRA BUILD THREAD
We spent the ride back thinking about what we were going to do with this block. The original plan was that I was going to run the 454 stock with the peanut port heads, we were just going to refresh it like we did with my small block. New gaskets, seals, maybe the camshaft.. but since the block didn't turn we knew it would need more just not what.
Soon as we got home I hopped in the back of the truck with my dad and we started to take it apart, we don't have an engine hoist readily available so there's not a chance we could pick up a complete cast iron 454 off a 3/4 ton truck.
What was found was not good.
We still took it apart and planned to use it regardless, I think most people would have pitched it then and there but we're special and like a challenge.. apparently.
This is the last photo I took that day, most likely because my hands were too greasy to grab the phone.