Originally Posted by Black Baja (Post 4497486)

For $13,000 it needs to make 850hp and be able to go 300hours without even flinching. This guy is a total idiot if he plans on handing over to you a motor with no ignition, no carb and no dyno tunning. Any builder worth .02 cents doesn't hand a motor over to the customer not tuned.

It cost a builder about $10,000 in parts for a long block. Nice parts. That's with a good set of aluminum heads. Carb and ignition another $1,500. Labor for Machine work $1,000 is on the very highend for this kind of build. This is a bolt together kind of motor and should take no longer than one day to assemble the motor. A day on the dyno $5-600. That's $13,000 roughly. With the use of the Engine Quest heads take $3,000 of the cost of the build. Now we are back to $10,000 this is with new everything... But the builder has to make a living. $1,000 for assembling the Engine (1 day work).

Originally Posted by murfman (Post 4497801)

Are you saying 1000$ for machine work total is high? Have you priced mallory metal lately? Even on new top shelf parts, machining and balancing a long block is at least 1500$ without assembly, and that would be bargain basement