From Smokeys auction, I have a steel 3'' crank and a set of .020 popup pistons.I probably won't use them.
A buddy has an orginal '69 Z28, he was a mechanic at a chevy dealer and did the maintenance on it for the original owner. When leaving for lunch one day he saw the car in the 'used car' lot, turned around and bought it. It is bonestock, he had it repainted to orginal last year. 2 years ago he pulled the original engine and...get this...sent it to Jasper for rebuild! They decked the block enough that you can't see the original numbers! He went ballistic, as he should, the best that Jasper would do is to provide him a letter stating that that was the original block. Whooptido! The cars value just dropped by maybe $50grand, more?, and they offer to give him a letter? It is a sweet little car and has about 100,000 miles. It was ready for rebuild, it was not ready for decking esp to the point of loosing the VIN number! I say they sold the block to one of them highend restoration shops and my buddy got whatever they had layin around and a letter.
I believe I'd be doing an acid check to verify the numbers. If it is the original engine, then that would give you a paper trail. If not......................................well you know. I've done a couple of QB 409s for customers. I had serious talks with my machine shop guy both times and got what I expected. It's nice to deal with folks you can look in the eye on specialty deals.
Mine was Fathom Green Met. with the white stripes which I kept in perfect tune... Wish I still had it...
Toughest motors ever built, we ran 5.86 gears in our stocker, it left on the mat & and it went thru at 8000, never even phazed it. Change the valve springs every few races and thats it. Torque isnt its strong point with 308 inches {roughly, .030 over}and a 780 Holley, just turn the snot out of it
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