I would use as many of your original parts as you possibly can. For the last 20 years I've been hearing about absolute JUNK engine parts coming from China and failing in just a few hundred miles.

Today my brother called me about his newly rebuilt '69 GTO engine with complete top end failure of brand new parts. Lifters and rockers.

Last year a buddy had the same thing happen to his '72 Blazer. All the parts came from Summit. They gave him $2500 of valve train parts (different from the failed ones) for free.

Kanter's engine rebuild kits were junk 20 years ago. They're probably worse now. Have your rockers and lifters rebuilt. Same for pushrods.

Buy the parts individually, not in kits.

1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)

1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)