02. Since it had been sitting around for who knows how many years, we decided to do a quick teardown and inspection of the short-block. We found all the GM parts, including the powdered metal rods ...

The engine men who build those nearly bulletproof pushrod motors for Winston Cup stockers lavish an incredible amount of time massaging their mass-produced cylinder blocks.

For those unfamiliar with a 305, it’s basically a two-bolt 350 engine with a cylinder bore smaller than the original 265-inch small-block introduced in the 1955 model year.