Thread: Need advice building my first 350 sbc.

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Well, the title of the thread has to do with building a 350, so let's get goin'.....
First and foremost, DO NOT BUY ANY PARTS FOR THE PROJECT UNTIL YOU HAVE THE ENTIRE PLAN FOR THE BUILD WRITTEN DOWN ON PAPER AND HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF ALL THE GUYS ON THIS BOARD.
The first thing you will want to do is to strip everything out of the block, including all the oil galley plugs and cam bearings. Then you will want to take the block to an automotive machine shop and have the block deck height measured. From the factory, the block deck height is blueprinted at 9.025", but through the years, one of the owners may have had the block cut to get fresh decks on it so that a certain head gasket would seal. We need to know what the current block deck height is.

Here's a fellow checkin' it with a digital caliper. He will take the measurement he gets there and add the radius of the main bearing bore to it to find the block deck height. He will do this operation on all four corners of the block......
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Once more.....DO NOT BUY ANY PARTS.......ANY PARTS......

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