does this look like a good engine to buy:

You are bidding on a 1970 010 block 350 + 040 Short engine.very,very fresh ( less than 1000 miles )Block casting # 3970010 casting date april 8, 1970.Crank is 010" undersize on rods and mains and Silvolite 040" over pistons were installed along with reconditioned 3/8 bolt rods and a RV cam with Cloyes timing set.A new Mellings oil pump and shaft were included.I am selling this for the Father of the young man who had it built for his 57 Chevy.The young man put less than 1000 miles on it and then died a very tragic death.I have sold the heads and intake and distributor off of the engine and this is what remains to be sold.If there is a Street Rodder out there working on a project, I can assure you this is a very nice engine..No Pay Pal please!!! for more info please see my E-Mail Address.Thanks !!!

 

if it's cheap enough it might not be bad. it has been bored to it's max and the crank ground ,that's good i na way because it all should be right on spec but that's bad too because it doesn't leave you much to work with. i never could trust anyone's assembly work but my own, not that a lot of people couldn't do it better than me. it also sounds sort of strange that it has a RV cam, look in comp or lunatis catalog and see what that means, nothing.

 

what is the most u would pay for this engine. is the cam gonna be a non roller. non hydralic. how much power do u think this engine will have with some nice heads. maybe a new cam if i find out that the one it has is too small.

 

it is yerbasic rebuilder's special short block, about like an autozone motor or the like. nothing special. all just basic, low-perf, ordinary rebuilder's stuff, nothing bad, but nothing hot-rod either.

i would not go above what you can get it for at autozone, which would be somewhere around 450-500.

you'll need a cam. i'd bet money it has a 929 replica in it. garbage. like ede says, people call about anything that doesn't lope an RV cam.

as far as power, that depends entirely on the heads, cam, & induction you put on it. it does have one good thing, namely flat-top pistons, but there's no way to estimate how much power a short block will put out because that's not the thing that determines that.