I'm taking my shortblock back to the machine shop on Monday to get it rebuilt again. This time I'll let them do all the assembly and I'm going to get a set of Merlin heads installed.

I was shopping around and I was really considering getting a ZZ502 (502/502) engine. It would cost me $8500 Canadian (plus tax) for a long block and I could have it in 10 days. I'll rebuild mine plus new heads for about $3-$4000 (guessing, might be closer to $2000)

The ZZ502 would be nice. There's no room for a tall deck block in a third gen if you wish to use Hooker SuperComp headers unless you plan on cutting the floor and frame out for the headers to clear. A tall deck block is .400 taller. Using a big bore 502 block gives more CID with a standard deck height. You can even stroke it to 540 and still have a standard deck height

Maybe when I win the lottery...



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Altitude corrected rear wheel HP: 497.9
Best 60 foot: 1.546

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Hmm... that's kind of good and kind of bad. Sounds like the rebuild will be pretty stout though using Merlin heads