build a motor Vs a crate motor
Is it cheaper to just buy a fully built crate motor or to re-build one using ur stock block?
My LS1 SS has 84K miles on it, and im thinkin about future mods. I would like to put L92 heads, Intake, and cam in it. i would also like to stroke it (either 383 or 402 CI). SLP sells their ZL402 CI motor for $8.5K, and minus the tune for the PCM, it is a "turn key" motor they say.
Pricing out the rotating assembly, heads, cam, intake, machine shop for the block, and the labor to install it; it is cheaper to just buy the crate?
the thing is i'd hate to waste a perfectly good (to my knowledge anyway) block. Or is it; i do have piston slap (not too bad tho), so i would magine i have some clyinder scratches, but machining them to fit the stroke should clean that up, right?
i was also thinking about throwing a prochagrer on it instead of stroking it, but i would still have to have my motor re-built to handle the power so i wouldnt think it would be any cheaper.
This wont happen for a couple yrs (im buyin a beater this summer), but I'm just tryin to price some things at so i kno where i could be at.
what do ppl norm do?
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