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Originally Posted by ponjohn

I THINK a better way to look at is: does the inventory have a better value in a box on the shelf or a ready to ship shortblock?

But understand a ready to ship shortblock is like building a house on spec. You ARE gambling that you will get the call. But if you have machine time that is open and you are not cannibalizing real builds for spec engines you should be good. You're keeping an employee busy while creating value.

Not an easy task to juggle.

Ponjohn, when in business you develop a pattern of what sells. So you would stock more of the items that sell the best, pistons ,rods, heads, blocks or whatever, but have it in stock. John Langer is right about AP not being a primary business but still....
I ordered a set of e-Heads and got them in in less than a week, that's how it's done.