Not an A body. A fun Dakota build

Unless you are replacing the heads, i wouldn't.... honestly i doubt that motor has more than a few hundred miles on it.. My guess is they had it rebuilt and someone messed up the install causing the fire after a short time. What i would do is look in the spark plug holes.. i bet there is zero carbon on the pistons at all..
No, going to run the factory heads. But we are going to cam and valve spring swap it.
Definitly look down thru the sp holes first. Thanks!