Thread: attempting to rebuild my 390.

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Arty is your engine original to the car? Sounds like it might be by the blocks date code. If so it's nice to keep and use the original engine and just keep whatever parts you don't use. It's only original once as they say. It's normal to not see a casting number on the block from 68 up. Not a big deal as they were generic anyway for the most part. What kind of budget have you set for this? There are a few different ways to go.

FFR I appreciate your help! I got the old bugger pulled today. So it's celebration time I lost my virginity.lol. The only problem was when i pulled it I broke a piece on the bell housing, maybe where a stud goes in at? That's what it looks like. Anyways. After I got it out and cleaned up a tad more, I found only 1 more nunmner on the back end driver side. : 8J175838. I've got the Steve Christ book on rebuilding Big Blocks. I read in there, that 428's have dishtop pistons w/ 4 eyebrows. Mine are like that. They look the the picture int the book that says the compression should be 9.5:1. regardless I need to find out what I have before I decide on what to do as far as replace/rebuild etc.. If I have something worthwhile that I can get some performance out of Then I'll get this one all cleaned up and stuff. If it is just a standard model that will cost as much to rebuild as it would to pick up a crate motor with higher performance than I'll go with the crate mortor. I want to get at least 400 HP put of it. I saw that a builder called "Tuffdawgs"
offers that kind of 390 for about $3700. can you tell anything from that number I found? - 8J175838- This was at the rear driver's side of the block.
I don't have any plans for the drag strip but I would like to be able to hold my own when I pull up to a "rice burner". Once again FFR thanks for everything.
-Sean