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As you already know that engine is ready for a rebuild if the castings aren’t cracked and the journals can be spec’ed.
Dont know who’s piston but clearly it’s cast not forged.
If nothing jumps out saying “bad gasket” you’re going to have to get the castings of block, heads and intake inspected for cracks. Going forward without spending the money to track the source or maybe more importantly to find where the source isn’t would risk all the money invested for a rebuild.
Then again sometimes it’s just less expense and hassle to just buy a crate motor. It is unfortunate for us that GM discontinued the bottom of their new crate motor line Goodwrench engine, That was a good deal to start a performance build on at low cost. Pretty much it was replace the heads and cam with some EBay aluminum heads and change to a mild performance cam and you had yourself a creditable, all new street performance engine for about 2500 bucks
Bogie
Dont know who’s piston but clearly it’s cast not forged.
If nothing jumps out saying “bad gasket” you’re going to have to get the castings of block, heads and intake inspected for cracks. Going forward without spending the money to track the source or maybe more importantly to find where the source isn’t would risk all the money invested for a rebuild.
Then again sometimes it’s just less expense and hassle to just buy a crate motor. It is unfortunate for us that GM discontinued the bottom of their new crate motor line Goodwrench engine, That was a good deal to start a performance build on at low cost. Pretty much it was replace the heads and cam with some EBay aluminum heads and change to a mild performance cam and you had yourself a creditable, all new street performance engine for about 2500 bucks
Bogie
