454cid
Sooper Pooper
I don't think it's fair to assume it's going to bite the dust any time soon
Same here. I have 300K miles on mine. It's stock, and I've never worked it hard, but years ago I overheated it on a daily basis because I was lazy and didn't want to fix the leaking water pump. Later I was trying to get all the miles out of my upper radiator hose, and blew it on the highway, and really overheated the engine. So I must have blow the head gasket, and warped the heads right? Nope, all original.
Of course some do go early. I have a set of heads in my garage that I bought off of Ebay. I was told the engine had some sort of lower end damage. Rod bearing maybe? I think that engine was under under 200K miles, like 140-ish? It was lower than mine at the time, I think, because I remember being a bit surpised by what I was hearing from the seller. I drove to town north of Flint to pick them up.... no way I wanted to ship 140+ pounds of cast iron!