Quote Originally Posted by pat mccarthy View Post
giving us a ideal of how much money you want to throw at this would help just bolting a top end kit on and calling it good ? will not fly the stock pistons will be very low CR so looking at a rebuild and at this point i would bump it to a 496 cast steel crank hyper piston s less crank is good and you want just a 454 then bore to 030 or what cleans bores up .to make power it helps to start with nice round bores that seal up and tru-deck the block to O or down 005 would help start this build on the right foot
To give an idea I certainly plan on atleast 3,000 maybe 4,000 max I prefer to use what I have as far as block and heads everything inside can be changed,obviously if I get over the cost in the heads to just buy a set I will certainly do that. I plan on having the short block rebuilt and reworking the heads to match. just curious on the cam profile and the valve train required to get me where I want to be.

Thanks guys for the replies.