Long ago, I built up a supercharged 392 Hemi for my brother's pal Kenny. Ken had a dream for a '67 Plymouth in pearl white with a black vinyl top. While he worked on the body, my brother Jim gave me a hand with the the engine. Ken had picked up a bunch of 392 engine parts from a Chicago Tribune ad placed by an Allied Van Lines storage facility. We three all went to look at the parts, surrendered to the Allied agent for non-payment of storage fees. I was stunned to find heads, a short block unassembled, a 6-71 blower manifold, steel rods and pistons, rocker assemblies and more.
IIRC, the agent wanted $500 (!) but as I kept pointing out how much work it would take to assemble it, Ken was able to get the whole shebang for about $225 or so. Later, we fell over laughing when we realized that all the machine work had been done and with a piston check, the about 8.5-1 C/R was perfect for a well-overdriven 6-71 on pump gas.
Later, Ken did shell out some serious simoleans for the new blower, blower drive and accessories from a famed Chicago area supplier. The dual Holley carbs, linkage and carb-to-blower manifold weren't cheap either. Anyway, we got it running after I poured over build specs from mainly old Chrysler manuals and hot rod magazines (way before the 'Net!). Fired it up and it ran great except when hot and at idle, the oil presssure was only about 18-20 lbs. After some more reading about the 392 oiling system, I pulled the ditzy and low and behold, I missed an oil galley plug in the back china wall area. With some real contortions w/o pulling the engine, I was able to thread in an Allen plug and was rewarded with 50lbs. pressure.
The car ran like a raped ape, Ken even drove it to a Car Craft sponsored show in Kansas where it later appeared in the magazine! Not just a pic but a small write up as one of the very first blown cars to travel such a distance yet be tame enough to drive all over town. And lordy in 2nd or 3rd (Torqueflite) this car was blazingly fast!
I'll admit that of all the engines I've put together, many non-supercharged race engines too, this was the most fun engine to put together and it was pretty unique for the era. Now, where is that late(r) model 426 Hemi I've always wanted to build!