Mine is pretty well finished. I've had it to the strip and ran a high 13 with it on radial tires. since then I've gone back to the reproduction bias plies, I am just not into the radial look these days. Also I had the original block rebuilt, It came with the purchase, but had a hole in one cylinder and needed a pretty extensive sleeve repair. I will be puling the non matching 340 for the numbers block this spring.