How do my pistons look?

[91tsitalon55]

Hey guys well this is my first real build and im putting in my arps and a new headgasket. I have some pictures of my head removed and was wondering if you see anything I should be concerned about. First question I had was are the pistons suppost to have a little movement when you try to wiggle them? And my second question is in one of the pics there is coolant on the piston but is this normal since the valves on the cylinder are slightly? Any help is appreciated

 

[Lofty]

Mine moved a little bit, yes. No, coolant is not supposed to be in there, unless you dripped it in there.

Looks like the cylinder walls are decent.

Was the HG blown?

 

[eli96talon]

I wouldn't worry about the colant every time I remove a hg some water seaps into the cylinder.

 

[josh1095]

looks good.

 

[tsd123]

Cylinder walls look good. A little wiggle is fine. How many miles are on this engine? Just curious.

 

[91tsitalon55]

Yeah the cylinder walls look good to me almost look like it was rebuilt by the previous owner. But there are 185k on this block. Its gonna just get me around for now until i get my other block built

And no the headgasket was not blown

 

[BogusSVO]

lay off the copper coat when using a composite HG....

 

[91tsitalon55]

Im just gonna use the cheap fel pro gasket with arps. So dont use it?