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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OLD H2S" data-source="post: 1471406" data-attributes="member: 20979">Well that is going to be $ + PITA, The bottom end holds up OK but what do the pistons look like? Now they are not round and ether are the bores, now what? Maybe a rod is now bent, how will you know? It looks OK. At cars and coffee on Sunday I talk to my engine builder buddy that is in the same boat and it is the reason on some of my builds I just take them down to have a look see on what is happy and what is a shiny spot rubbing. but I still have to do new rings and bearings and gaskets and, and and.1 thing I have learned is these engines were made to go together 1 time with all new parts and this is not 1966 when bolts and parts could be used again and again. Now I balance to 1/10th of a gram and then take it all to The House of Balance to get the dynamic job done or they will shake and take out a valve guide. Why did Ford use hard steel valve guides..they last, but they are not round anymore so....Serdi machines suck, nobodies Blanchard grinder is going to save the flywheel, heads will pass pressure test and then "sweat" and hydrolock and bang, dead pistons and bent rods or loose piston pins and noisy top ends...it never ends, and do not get me started on counterfeit parts. I have lost 2 engines to a fake fuelpump and a set of fake rings.How do you know?? Everyone lies. I have helped people out and the big names are just as bad when you do the tear down and find mistakes, on a noisy idle and loss of power or low compression or leak down.I would love to have a flat plane GT350 BUT... I have not seen one yet with 30000 miles on it and the owners are scared, and the 3 gen. 5.0 are no better. When I look at the people we have lost on this web site after a build where did they go? They would be here bragging if it was a good result, and I hope they would.</blockquote>