Hi Perley. It will be interesting to see what people post, I have been vowing to build a test stand myself. I had one almost done and Hurricane Charlie took the roof off of our old shop so it got tossed out with a lot of other very wet stuff.

A guy I knew actually built one out of lumber. As hokey as that sounds it was amazingly nice. He used 2 x 6's for the main frame, had dolly wheels on it, and used engine plates from Jegs to support the front and rear of the block. He mounted a radiator up front, and built an upright structure at the back that held a tach, oil pressure gauge, and water temp gauge. It had a battery and plastic boat fuel tank (about 3 gallons) mounted on it, plus an ignition switch. When his Brother in Law told me about it I was thinking it was going to be really strange, but when I saw it we all stood around in amazement at the ingenuity. He even painted it black.

His B I L said if he put a driveshaft on it he could drive it around. He had a sbc on it and fired it up for us and it just sat there purring.

Don