mooneye, nope, no guideplates. still the stock springs and pushin studs. these are on some gmpp vortec's by the way,...i had the self align rockers with them, so i was told NOT to use guide plates with self aligns' and pushins. ?? was i wrong there?

Geronimo, hah yeah we had to go cheap, as you can see why!!

dave, oh yeah, its been a nightmare all along with that 283, im done messin with it and i already got a 350 and now 2 400's in the line up. so now i just gotta make up my mind!

im also gonna go through the full suspension while im this far in, a call to hotchkis is in order, and possibly air ride technologies?!> finally get my power steering hooked up, and well, just fix all the "half assed" stuff from the first go around!!