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Originally Posted by bk2life
re-ring your bbc, add new bearings, find some new heads and put it back in the truck.
if it needs bored and honed, new pistons are 100-300 bucks.
you cna have it back on the road for the same price your going to find a sbc.
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That is all depedent on how much machine work is needed. What if it needs an overbore and new pistons, a crank, heads... machine work adds up.
You might could still find a decent low mileage 5.7 vortec out of the 96-99 trucks, but they are getting harder and harder to find.