Johnny there has an engine you can buy. Fill one of the cylinders up with concret and forget about and you won't even know it's there. hehe. Seems weird from what you told me though and I don't even know much about this kind of stuff yet. Just from hearing about all this stuff he took out and put in. Sounds like he bought another better block or such and used all the good parts on that engine and put crappy ones back in and trying to make it sound like it's some nice engine. That would be like me making a fully blown sweet 383 and then taking it all off and putting stock parts in and saying that it used to be a fully blown 383 but I just took the parts off.... no point to it. 3000 seems high to me and I have been looking around at different 454's, etc.