There are plans in the works to do a complete overhaul on the boat in a few years, but that is outside of what is feasible right now. I am trying to see if the block has a crack in it to see if I need to set this project aside until I can afford to do the intrusive work to it. If the block is good I can get 351 parts easily still and I don't mind having an older drive train since I can still get major components for it.
The compression numbers were below 135 on the gauge but I do not know how accurate the gauge was, or if it was leaking compression somewhere else because the tools were not available for me to check that.
Please don't take this as me casting aside advice, but even if I went and got a junkyard LS, converted it to marine parts, a salvaged transom plate, bell housing and outdrive for alpha 1 plus anything else that doesn't mesh up to the old parts I'm looking at the better part of 5k at least. Which is not in the cards right now.
