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Originally Posted by Already Gone
f you do the heads on an engine with 70k miles and don't touch the bottom end from past experience you could have problems with crank etc. within a few thousand miles.
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I have been thinking this for a while, my main issue is if I go the whole way through the engine the cost will be so close to a good 383 crate engine, I might as well buy one of them and be done with it, store my engine away.
Edelbrock heads are just on $3000
Rebuild kit with decent parts $1200
Cam, lifters and pushrods $ 450
Machining $1000
I can get a new blueprint 4 bolt 383 with roller cam for $7k to my door, this is a NEW block, all I need is the bolt on bits, most of which I have.
No matter what I do to my engine, it will always be a 2 bolt.
I was trying to talk myself out of a new 383, but I think that you and I both know that there is no point in doing what I had planned.
I don't see much point in putting the best part of $6k into a 48 year old 2 bolt, better off putting it in the shed and sticking a new engine in its place.
Thanks for making me admit to myself what I was trying to avoid.