I can build a complete short block for the same money, using parts and pieces I've stashed away for the past 50 years. I'm sitting on six- - - -count 'em- - - -4 bolt main bearing 350 blocks people have given me that can be honed and rebuilt, or maybe bored for the next oversize. Buying somebody else's junk for more than scrap iron price just never occurred to me.

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!