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Given your last sentence I'd recommend that you look at a fully assembled crate engine, using one of your problem engines as the core. Then you can disassemble the other one to better understand the way it all fits together, and still sell it for scrap by weight once your done, provided you don't decide to rebuild it for some future project. You can get a bone stock SBC with a good warranty and be on the road quickly, or you can spend more $$$ and spring for one that's built for performance. It's still the same way it was back in the day, the sign posted in the shop "Speed is $Money$, How Fast Do You Want To Go??"

Originally Posted by rspears

Given your last sentence I'd recommend that you look at a fully assembled crate engine, using one of your problem engines as the core. Then you can disassemble the other one to better understand the way it all fits together, and still sell it for scrap by weight once your done, provided you don't decide to rebuild it for some future project. You can get a bone stock SBC with a good warranty and be on the road quickly, or you can spend more $$$ and spring for one that's built for performance. It's still the same way it was back in the day, the sign posted in the shop "Speed is $Money$, How Fast Do You Want To Go??"

Thanks for the input Roger, I do want to go fast, but I want to be street legal. I am unsure if I plan on rebuilding the 350's I do have, but I really am interested on getting to know how they fit together and what part does what. I've learned a bunch from my dad the past two days and need to learn a lot more.

I haven't found an engine I love the sound of more than a 427 the gearing is super low so I wouldn't have tires left if I dropped one of those in. I am so torn on engines I really don't know where to settle.