Having thrown more than my share of junkyard motors into old sleds and jalopies, I can almost assure you that motor would still be together had it never come apart. Stuffed a 283 SBC bored .080 over, about 150K miles, sat in a garage for 3 years into my 31 coupe, promptly put about 15K miles on it before I sold it, it's still in the car, still running fine. Hope anyone that is looking at junkyard/used engines learns from this...