Oh, about $10,000 fast. The 427 in my Corvette is the most expensive and most powerful engine I've ever built. But that was built for an assault on the Silver State Classic open road race. Should have a 175 mph top speed with the Muncie and not having an overdrive. But where do you test something like that without insulting the sanity of every cop around?

I get your point, Jerry. Yes, I spent $800 building up my 283 engine as a stock rebuild. The only stuff not stock were the heads, which had to have the right holes for mounting accessories. Another 305 I built cost $600 to build stock, and that got the 283 heads! It's actually running very good in a '32 Ford Model A now.

On the stovebolt head thing, it's too bad Wayne has gone out of business. Perhaps Leo Sanducci's idea of welding two V8 heads together to make a 6-cylinder cross-flow head is not such a terrible idea...ESPECIALLY if you can use the cathedral-port LS1 heads!!!

I might try to find a 292 or a GMC 302 motor and just play with it, and see what I can do with it. The low compression would be okay if I put a big turbocharger on it, right? What a cool stovebolt project that would be. And if it works out, guess what, the 350 V8 will probably come back out of my truck.

52 GMC 3/4 ton pickup
68 Big Block Vette
68 455 Firebird