well.... its been almost two weeks... as shared I pulled the engine and brought it to another local, recommended, that has a pretty extensive shop and does all his own machining. we started the tear down... here's an engine that was supposed to have the lower end done, new pistons, bored 30 over, heads machined and rebuilt... etc etc.... so far we have found 1972 bearings on the crank so definitely not touched, no bent rods so that was good but cam pretty beat up. Major ridges in the cylinders so definitely not bored...probally ball honed to take most of the ridge off. two different heads which i mentioned before.

What we are doing is grinding the crank...
new bearings
new pistons
bored least as possible to clean up the cylinders
swap the one head so I have two of the truck vortec heads with the hardened seats, magna fluxing them also
modified cam so it has a bit of a lope..i forget the specs off hand.
and the basics which goes with it all...

hoping to have it back wed or thursday and we'll try it again