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Dude, there is absolutley nothing wrong with my engine . Its got just a few thousand miles on it and its tight with a capital "T". Putting out in the 400 ft lb rage and around 340-350 HP .Its got a bulletproof bottom end and excellent flowing hi torque heads. I build 4 or 5 engines a year on average and they all turn out great because I try to built good combinations in view of what I want the finished product to achieve .
In all honesty whats going on is I am looking at picking up a 6-71 blower next year and I'm going to start building a motor specifically for that application. Big ports, lower compression, rock solid bottom end etc. It'll cost me about $3800 for the engine components. The wife lets me have one at a time so I'll sell this one off and build a different one.
I had more pics of the truck until a few days ago when I wiped out my hard drive. Your welcome to come over and take a look at it and go for a ride on the weekend.
A good shortblock would run you about
$250 in machine work
$200 in pistons
$130 in gaskets and bearings
$210 in rods for good scat rods. last thing you want to skimp on is rods
$160 to have it balanced. Its worth it for longevity
$100 for a cam and lifters.
$50 for good rings
$80 for a regrind on the crank or $150 for a new scat crank. Steel cranks run $450 or so
Timing chain and etc stuff $100-$200
The heads are what make the motor though. Buy good heads once and you'll always be happy you did. Theres a world of difference between a set of vortecs or WP S/R's and a set of rebuilt stockers. Decent heads will run you $600 - $800 . Vortecs are cheap right now but need some mods and some extra eqpt that drive up the end price a bit.
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No truck :-(
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