Oooo, the 79 does exist!
Ooooo, the forum doesn’t even know about the latest with my ‘79
I bought an LS1 to build for it and took it to to a machine shop. Paid them $5,000 cash to machine,
assemble and run the engine on a dyno. After some discussion, the owner of the shop got pissed off at me, told me he’s going to machine the engine and leave everything in my hands. I immediately decided to get my engine out of the shop and told them to give me my money back. He instead bought rods, pistons and bearing then shoved me with a $2200 cleaning and “spec’ing” bill. Not one thing was machined, assembled or obviously not ran.
Long story short...from my $5,000, I got back my parts and a set of rods/pistons and $1100. Got ripped off by that guy. To be light with my words, that owner is an absolute piece of garbage. Big slap in the face was ordering the pistons/rods after I decided to take my engine out the shop and then deciding to add $85+tax to my bill.