Hi Mr.08 & all; I agree that they didn't do bad to the roller - body. And I had sacrificed the OE block long ago (1984) as it was a thin wall casting. Lm-1 350 & the main webs weren't in a line so it was eating itself. Ran Hot & had little power for a 350". Since it was a thin wall cast (Non Halo car) I thought it would be a good idea to add cubes - Power & TORQUE. A 400" SB was the answer, but theirs's nothing inside them worth tryin' to Hot Rod. Hence JE pistons, Calies crank, Eagle rods & Main caps, AFR heads on & on. So to me the engine was the heart & the body was just a unusual way to get an Super Sport type under body (Anti sway bars- extra gusseting) & heavy duty everything. One step above F-41 so to say. And being an engine man ya hate to see your baby Beat on. They buzzed it to the 7500 RPM rev limiter they had installed & put go juice on top. Any one with 400 SBC experience knows that boost on a GM 400 block will destroy the decks. That's why if we that wanted to get years of use, we only used them in the N/A form. And even then keeping the compression under 10.5 to 1 after about 30,000 miles the decks would be used up. I had built that engine to rev 6500 all day not 7500. So you tell me how much damage they did to the valve train & decks? For laughs they took years of fun from someone that would of been happy with 530 Lbs. ft. of Torque. Eric the second owner could of purchased any other nice roller, I thought he was after the unusual fact that it was a 9C1with all original bolt centers, no cutting, welding, no rust-body damage, only missing the OE engine & front seat. Every other OE part was included for this ONE last 9C1 Two door Malibu. Even the trans was the OE case! OK the diff was out of a Buick. Anyway the car did still have a 9C1 theme (subjective of course). So that in a Nut shell is why It made me Un happy, plus that was the last hand ported heads I did! Ole' Bob.