[Dave-R (Roppa440)]

Just put it all back together as well as possible and see what happens is the cheap and cheerful answer. You have bought a car with an engine you knew was highly modified. Engines this wild can break parts. Fact of life. There was a reason they came from the factory less wild. Reliability.

I don't know what goal the engine builder had in mind when he put this together. Maybe a specific quarter mile E.T. If your goal with this car is different then consider what you want from it and build the engine to suit.

It does not take a degree in anything to put an engine together that will work well on the street. It just takes a little experiance, common sense, and a bit of reading up to understand how an engine works. As you get more and more into the full race engine building then, yes, it maybe is degree level stuff. But you don't want to go that far do you? I wouldn't.