alright, well the motor is coming out. I am finding WAY to many loose bolts, stacked washer and misc scary crud to justify leaving it in. I am gonna have to pull it and go throught the bolts, make sure everything is tight. It sounds like the supposudly "good" deal this guy got on the motor work wasnt a good deal afterwards. I have found unplugged vac lines, stacked washers, loose bolts, mismatched bolts.....its a wonder this thing runs a good as it does. He said he drove it from mexico up to Prescott, probably a good 12 hours like it was.....it runs good, but I just cant take the risk of a bearing cap comming loose....a leaking head gasket or something like that.......

hmmmmmmm.....ok...lemme pull the intake and find out some more info....will it be really obvious if the ports are oval or round? sounds like there will be.....

its got a 728 on the left and 407 on the right side.....

thanks guys, just finished pullin a dent out of the front fender, now just need a light amount of filler and paint.......hmmmmmm....what color....I would have pulled the cover as well but called in sick today, and unfortunetly live on the same road as my boss....cant be seen outside, already happend.....twice before

i also have a spare intake manifold gasket that wasn't the right one for my set, which probably would match the spare manifold.

let us know, there's parts available.

I think the head would be an older non emissions round port type if it came from mexico. let us know the numbers under the valve cover... wouldn't it be nice to find a cheap nearby source for non swirl heads in north america...

if its an ovalport i have a spare of that

sounds good, lemme pull it and see whats up...

what happened is you have an oval head and a round port intake or some combination of those, or the wrong gasket, as has been happening a lot lately.

i have a spare intake manifold, I think it's a round port one. I'll have to look and it's in losangeles, we could trade or something.

figure out which ports you have and if you have the right gasket.

I am in Prescott Arizona USA, probably not a lot of folks over in my neck of the woods