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Turns out I lied.... got her more or less back in long block form. Had a little time before we have to leave again. So I didnt take loads of pics. Sorry. Few things though. I used two different loctite sealants on the gasket areas. 574 was applied to the intake and exhaust gaskets. Should help to seal them up a bit. And i use 38657 around the base gasket. It's a high flex form a gasket but it's really thin and its anaerobic. It does a great job of sealing minor imperfections. don't forget to trin the case gasket off flush with the deck area. I used the graphite steel gasket as I feel they do a better job then paper gaskets. In this case a small file was used to get it down flush. Be very careful not to take any material off the deck! I was rather surprised with the DDM alloy manifold. I barely had to take anything off to match up to how I modded the intake. I ended up with 0.022" squish which is ok by me would have liked 0.020" but there are limited gaskets available and I don't have access to a lathe right now to turn the jug down. I also said screw the piston mods. don't have another 3 odd hours to toss into it again. Really missing being able to run it and I still have a good bit to do.