Ok, so the SJ 327 I bought from a private seller was put together pretty well, except for the high lift cam which had a rounded off lobe and lifter #6 exhaust. I had to gently pry the cam out of the block. It's gonna need new cam bearings. Ok well thats a project because now I want to go through the rest of the block to see what else is wrong. Well the other project I have is a Caballero I bought from a friend. It has a Weiland single plane xcellerator intake on it and some hooker super comp headers. He told me it has a 2500 stall converter and a shift kit. The original motor caught on fire and burnt the hood up pretty well. So he swapped out the motor for a 350. Casting # 14010207. 80-85 2-4 bolt main. With a set of redone 882 heads. Well the motor never ran right. So he told me he though it needed a valve adjustment. So I do that and notice that #7 exhaust is not lifting at all. Well to make a long story short, rounded off lifter and wiped out cam. This time the cam is stuck in the block. I've tried prying it out from the front with the cam handle installed. So I guess I've got to pull the motor and pursuade the cam to come out by tapping on it from the back of the block. The block only had 60,000 on it and it was out of a box truck. I'm thinking somebody put new lifters on an old cam. But I thought it was just weird how the last two motors I've bought have had that problem. I'm just trying to nickel and dime the Caballero right now to get it running. I don't know if its a good idea to put some new cam bearings in and buy a cheap cam. If I do that I won't have to worry about what I had lost it if it breaks again. I just need something to run back and forth to work. Any thoughts.