I thought Id better do a build thread, most of the info I got was from this forum and has been a massive help, so if someone reads this and learns from what I copied off others job done.
So I got me an 82 longbed c10, brush painted with red-oxide primer and a thrown together 350 in it, I was overseas at the time so my cousin went to look at it and when I called him to see what he saw he had bought it.
It was going to be a few months before I got back to NZ and hes an engineer/ hot rodder so he started it, my instructions were bag it and 4 link it, it needs to be low and sent him some pics, after a year or so I got back and he had it looking like this: