Was this engine well maintained?
 

The seller promised me that the 40,000 miles on the odometer were all the car ever saw. The valve train looks a bit rough to me????


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looks like it was well maintained but sitting in a garage a while with no cover for all the surface rust. id just get some new push rods if they are to rusty on the ends and run it.is that a 302/ 351?

It's a 400 & I'm just funnin y'all. The pushrods are so bent I'm taking the rocker bolts out by hand ! Don't matter ,the only part going back in is the block

Thermostat in the block I was going to guess 351 Cleveland...

Looks mint ;)

I've got a big boat and that looks like it would make a teriffic anchor.

Current state YES. In a few months it will be mildly badass. You can have the heads . But I'm banished from Florida. I could tell you exactly where to go dig up a Chevy engine & Paragon transmission out of my 32' Chris Craft. I buried between Punta gorda & Arcadia. Heh...heh

LOL took the words out of my mouth!

i was thinking the scrap yard is giving $0.11 a pound --you got a $20 bill of rust there!

LOL!

most anchors are rusty .. Heard ford makes some good ones. LMFAO :)

Early 400s had the same heads as the 351C-2V. Later ones got the 351M heads. The difference is that the 351M heads put big water jackets around the exhaust valve stems. That helped valve life, but the jackets are huge potbellies that hang down into the exhaust port, choking it off so much you can barely get a finger past them.