Dan/Ernie,
Thanks......... as you can see I'm a very senior member of CC and I've seen more than one thread take a detour. (In my warped/perverse way I enjoy some of the banter that goes on in these discussions as long as it doesn't get to personal). It's been said before "We're all here because we love our "hobby".............we just need to remember that hobbies are for enjoyment and not get personal when stating our views
As for this build, I too have built a number of engines over the years, this build was dictated because of a poor "rebuild"/failure ("rebuilt" engine was included with my basket of parts & partial built project car when I got it). I elected to take this opportunity to build out the engine to what I wanted as a dependable performance motor. Since most of my experiance has been in european performance and SBF's, I was not that framiliar with recomended mod's for the FE, which has been the source of most of my questions.
BTW: this afternoon will be breakin, I had a couple of issue to resolve: a broken collector/exhaust bracket & a missing (misplaced) piece to linkage
Thanks,
Mike