Bad news from the machine shop today

[82 GT]

Originally posted by Fox Body
82 GT,

why is dude selling the block? At least go check it out, and take your time to look it over. Sounds like a decent deal. Are you getting a pretty much stock bottom end rebuild?

He's selling it because he started a project and no longer has an interest in it(so he says). Yeah, it's pretty much stock bottom end but I don't plan on revving 7000+ rpm's either.
Since this project may take me awhile to save enough cash up to finish, I might just have my block done and know I have a good block. The guy seeling the other block is in Philly(about 3hrs from me) so it woudn't be worth doing all that driving back and forth IF the block is indeed faulty.
I really don't know yet. I might go look at it. Sometimes you can determine how trustworthy a person is by talking to them and how they react to your questions. Just by seeing how well this block and crank is currently being stored will tell me alot.
It should be all wrapped up nice in plastic with the rods labeled and not just thrown in some old shed or something like that...you know what I mean........?