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Originally Posted by JSPONT
Old Pontiac blocks are getting harder to find, the good ones anyway and guys want big $$ for a good specific block. Plus 40 year old iron that should only be bored 30 over makes good blocks scarce for whatever et you want to go.
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I found a 4 bolt 400 block locally a few weeks ago. $650 and it was already bored .060, worn out and needed probably another .010 to clean it up.
That is a risky proposition to sink thousands of dollars into.
I understand the risk of investing in such an aftermarket block, the ones offered now can fill the bill but were mainly done for the racers.
I have no idea if it would be profitable, I think it would, but I'd just like to have the option.
My little .060 over 350 block has a sleeve in it, now that I see it has a busted piston I'd just as well build a 440 street engine using an Eagle cast crank rotating kit, nothing crazy, just a good street engine, but I don't want to go scrounging for another 400 block. Last time I took several into the shop to have vatted and fluxed just to find one that wasn't cracked.