Yea theses are the answers i was expecting. It was his first build is 21 and in college, so had to cut expense corners and hoped it would work out but this time it didn't. with no real engine building experience him or me. we managed to get the engine building principles down pretty good but obviously not the practice of engine building i.e. the thinking of oh that should be fine. I'ss let him know its probably what he expected.thanks for the help.
And the only real reason hes parting it out was because hes got a lot of pretty decently expensive parts on it that he got cheap on craiglist to build a decent horsepower motor and figured he'd sell the parts and just go out and buy a used stock 350 and just drop it in his Camaro, and just cut the loses.Until he can afford to do it right.
In the very least we got some good experience out of it and had fun doing so.