[WildBillyT]

Originally Posted by Pampered-Z

Just to play Devil's advocate. Price out the machine work you'll need, block, rods resized, crank turned ect, and the price of the rebuild kit. How far off is buying something like this?

http://www.jegs.com/p/Blueprint-Engi...55988/10002/-1

Way ahead of you.

I'm contacting some machine shops today to see what they will charge. If it's more than the price of a short block exchange (either via Summit/Jegs/Pace) then that may be the way I go.

Here's what I found last night:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MLL-BP3552/

I'm guessing it may be tough to beat $1500, especially if I factor in the time involved.