67 cuda FB progress UPDATE

Well, there is some good news on the 273.
We got it hot tanked and all cleaned up, then we got the cylindars all reworked and ready for reassembly as soon as the new set of rings arrive.
Till then, we managed to get some paint on the block and the heads.
As I mentioned in a previous post that one of the heads had a crack in it.
We got the crack sorted out from an old timer that has been doing this sort of repairs for the better part of 50 years. They all checked out after he welded it up with great readings on the vacuum test and magna fluxed them the same day the block was checked after cleaning.
He did such a great job that it's very hard to tell it was welded.
Below are a few pictures of it all.
We also cleaned up the timing chain cover and painted it black and is just sitting on the block so we could have an idea as to the red and black color combo.

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