from the buyers side, 2 yrs ago i purchased a 454 $800, that was
the best deal for me to see the parts in tx before i bought. the guy
was real nice sent pics he gave me the history and number which
had a 4 bolt that i wanted, he said the truck ran great no smoke,
no problems, here the machinest said the heads were shot, and
the crank was shredding the front/inside of the block, and it
was a 2 bolt. its my fault for not realy checking it out, but with
all that trouble, next time a new merlin block, the engine now
is a 496 w/4 bolts, im not upset, but the guy had to lie, 4 shot
seats and a shredding crank, smoke and a noisy engine.
the machinest gave me $300 credit for the heads, crank, rods
and slugs, and i repainted his signs for the rest of the machine
work..oh when i called the seller and just told him the problems
with the block, he said "thats your problem, as is" i just
laughed, fool me once :lol: :lol: (not saying all are like that)