Alright this a good thing the block looks great I dont think that the motor has ever been torn down. It still had the metal head gasket with ford numbers on it and felpro gaskets on the intake. I know where there is another 390 to stick back for rainy day. Ok you guys have been such a help I need a favor. The 70 boss car that I have bolonged to the best bud I ever had. He was killed in a motorcycle wreck august before last and what made it eaven worse we had lost a mutal close friend in august two years before that. He and I were starting on a 70 boss 302 grabber green flat top car. After we had torn down the engine we found that the block was a standard (non boss) 302. Every thing else in the engine was boss except that. We got the car stripped and were waiting for the sand blaster to call and let us know he was ready for the car. Well in the mean time marty was killed leaving behind a wife and four kids. His job mandated that he have good life insurance and he had his finances pretty squared away. The only boy mitchell is 14 who I take alot of time with we still ive right across the street from them. He is interested in building the car. Marty and I had already restored another 70 boss that he had sold. He kept the money from that car and had planned to use that to restore this one and make an all original driver out of it. His wife is all about having this car restored and wants me to do it for them. I have a problem. I cant find another block for the car and I know there has to be one out there that someone would part with to make this car happen the way marty would have wanted it to. Thanks