Yeah, you have to give quite a tug to get under here, but if you haven't seen under the hood yet, get your glasses and take a peek.
The engine is a 400 inch small-block (Chevrolet, of course). It came out of a 1948 Ford pickup. No, really, it did. Originally of course, the engine came out of a 1971 or 1972 Chevrolet full-size station wagon, and came equipped with a 2 barrel carb. It then put out a whopping 170 horsepower! I don't know how Mom handled a wagon back then with that kind of brute forc.... Oh, yeah well OK those wagons were heavy, but MAN what a wallop..... Ah, Hm, You got me there, a new model Dodge Neon DOES put out more than that, but look at the TORQUE! Good lord, how did Mom ever drive that thing in the snow? Huh? Ah, heck I have no idea what the torque spec is for this engine when it was new, but coupled with that hella 170HP it had to be someplace around 200 or less eh?
The 400 is now topped off with an Edelbrock Performer RPM manifold and a 600CFM Edelbrock carb. What? No, it DOESN"T look "just like an AFB." AFBs were, uhh, different, yeah the color was different and they had an umm.... well they weren't this shiny anyways.
So, ANYWAYS, getting beyond the comments from the peanut gallery, the air guzinta through the Edelbrock set, mixes with the fuel, passes all stock, original components, and heads out to the open air again through a set of 1-5/8" diameter headers. Gotta keep the velocity up don't ya know. Future plans call for a mild cam upgrade, and maybe a set of heads.
To please the fans, the engine is painted your usual Chevy orange and keeps the oil on the inside 'stead of on the outside by covering the valvetrain with a pair of Edelbrock Elite valve covers. Yeah, I know, its a lot of E stuff, but I couldn't find the cool M/T covers I wanted, and the groovy finned 60s style covers were about twice the duckets that these cost. So, make of it what you will, I like it.
Spark is from a GM HEI distributor that was already on the engine when I obtained it, through a set of Accel wires down to a set of Accel Header Plugs. They aren't a WHOLE lot shorter than a regular plug, but it's enough.

That should be enough of you listening to me yak, take a look at the pictures.

The thumbnails will take you to a larger version if you wanna see one.

What you see here is the progression from Old sconge-motor through the Hackmeister's hands and to the barest beginnings of looking like it should.

More images will become available as I continue to improve what it looks like under here.