might not make river run

Back before this forum even existed I used Felpro automotive gaskets on my rebuild. 15ish years later I put on P heads and collected parts before so down time was minimal. I bought PCM marine head gaskets this time but on removing the Felpro's there were no issues. Would not hesitate to use them again if needed.

almost together.Can i drill the motor mounts? new block uses 1/2 bolts. old block had something different. Had some pics but cannot upload

block mounting holes different size.. Mounts have smaller holes. Is it okay to drill mounts?

Sorry mike, was late getting the private message about the head gaskets… St. pats day around here is a holiday season.

You can open up the mounts, but you shouldn’t have needed to… Every single sbf I have ever touched used the same bolts, If your block has larger holes I suspect somewhere along the line that block was modified due to some stripped threads or something of the like. I wouldn’t sweat it, but make sure that you test fit your mounts dry after you open them up. Or even drop the engine in place with them already on, getting them started in place from the bottom can be very frustrating, and if your holes were a bit off perhaps impossible.

Thanks
should. Be ready for test run by friday.

Quick question. What would be protocol for the intake ground screw?
Not sure about grounding it to aluminum.

On mine it always was on intake. But i am going to move it to head.

Yeah, that's the scary part

Man at this point I would take running over pretty. Keeping fingers crossed

Sounds like v-drives and direct drives use different grounding locations.

Dd's use the block for the neg batt cable and the rear intake bolt for the harness ground. You can still use his ground with an aluminum intake.

Thanks,
yep we have two grounding locations. Was not sure about the aluminum.
Might be in today depending on work.
Mike

Fixed link.

where's the drool emoticon    

But his is a Ford,he just needs to drop it in and go

Freaking awesome. Had one minor leak at thermostat housing. New intake took shorter bolts.
Ran like a top. Quick fuel carb straight out of box. Idle adjustment good to go.
Lake Kerr for about 1.5hrs ran it to 4G was clocking about 42 with acme 540.
35k and Iit was around 35ish.
see you boys at the river. Plugs looked good not really enough time to tell.
no real hole shots . Firm roll out and it was gone. Plenty of throttle left. At 4 should be all the stretch it will get. May have a small air leak it was wanting to run 160. But they were long runs probably 25 minutes or so.