Juve88GTA

Ok the story goes something like this.
Bought the car in California in May 2012, I blew the gasket on my way to AZ. Trouble ever since: VATS, MAF, injectors, Timing, Valves, Cat, exhaust… But in April this year I finally got it running.
The car has 170,+++ original miles and I new that sometime in the future I was going to have to rebuild the engine, I plan to keep this car my whole life. But this weekend I came home from church and parked it like always, hours later when I tried to start it, it was idling rough and it started to blow smoke out the back(I think it was white smoke), can it be the head gasket? It was never over heating. Or maybe the piston rings?
Any ways I need some advise from you guys. And if I need to do a rebuild I need to know what are my options, I've searched for rebuild kits but none of them are specified for 350 TPI engines…
BTW. I'm getting married in december so my budget for this is minimal.

vetteoz

iTrader: (13)

I think you are being a little premature ,
without further investigation like a compression test /pulling the heads , you may only need a new head gasket.

Your engine is just another reg, plain jane 350 SBC , the same as in your neighbors truck.
All you have to do when picking a kit for a 350 is select a piston to match what is in your engine.

The TPI intake on the top is the thing that makes yours a "TPI "
You need " TPI" gaskets for it, ONLY

Juve88GTA

Like I said, I had plans to rebuild the engine in the future. I did a compression tests when I adjusted the valves, I don't really know what the compression should be but I know cylinder 7 was at 70psi, another one was 120s and the rest closer to the 140s.
And thanks for the Rebuild kit info, any other suggestions on where to buy a cheap one?

Juve88GTA

I also forgot to mention that the oil pressure was low, at normal temperature the oil pressure gauge was ¼ of the way (15-20psi). And one more thing, when I changed the spark plugs I noticed that the exhaust manifold looked kinda wet around the head exhaust port…