[rickcdewitt]

Got it out and torn all the way down.fingers crossed an overbore can clean it up.that cylinder was the only one rusty. None in the pan or rest of the motor. Bright side is the old motor gets a refresh now. Stock rebuild. All the dyno graphs i look at have the stock cam making the most torque below 2000 rpms or so where it will be useful towing with the nv4500.

I spent a couple days seriously considering a duramax or cummins but don't want to buy a diesel parts truck right now and spend a few thousand more getting it in when the ls swap is pretty much done.

Long term I'd like to have an lly or newer mated to the nv4500. Cummins would be interesting to figure out but I've had a couple 500 hp duramaxes and know my way around them.