1974 Chevy Blazer with a 1995 Camaro LT1 engine Top-end rebuild in 2005

In August of 2005 while heading to Yosemite I overheated the engine while climbing a steep grade (Old Priest grade on 120) behind folks driving way too slow (10mph) after passing the last turnout. By the time I hit the top, it was too late, and the head gaskets had fried. (It's those darn aluminum heads on a cast iron block... very easy to fry the gasket if you overheat)

Not too long ago I did the heads in the Vette, so unfortunately, I'm all too familiar with this rebuild. Well, that's one of the reasons I decided to run two cars with the same engine. Swappable parts, and the projects repeat so I learn from experience. I just wasn't expecting to have any head problems on the blazer since the engine is so young (maybe 60k miles by now) Oh well.

I may take this opportunity to throw some long-tube headers on it, but so far, it looks like there may not be any "off-the-shelf" long tube truck header that will work with the LT1 heads... more research to do...