Quote Originally Posted by tango
The hole for the push rod is under that plate not the plug ? If it's there .
Under the plate huh...two bolts and my great mystery will be answered. Thanks.

Wait, so what's up with that huge plug hole below the plate? Sheeh, my block has more holes in it than Bonnie and Clyde's V8 Ford death car...

BTW, after pulling the throttle body off and showing the pics of it to a fellow forum member who was interested in possibly buying it, he revealed that the tbi was sitting on top of an adapter plate and that my intake was indeed, just a plain old, carburetor manifold.

So at least that issue was solved. Someone along the way, stuck a TBI (with adapter plate) onto my big block...meaning that perhaps, my block wasn't an original TBI motor.

I test fit my quadrajet onto the intake and it snugged up just fine. A few studs on my shopping list and at least that part of my motor test run will be set.

Now to pull that fuel pump block off plate and see what I see...
Kurt