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Originally Posted by deuces wild
I help Ashton Hudson at the track when I can with his SS/CS car. I can tell you there is nothing cheap about it. In fact he is doing a new engine now and he told me over 30,000 total carb to pan.
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And if it's real competitive, that's cheap. If you were to break it down piece by piece, a killer combo comes to a bit more then that. We spent, as I stated $8,000 a pair for bow tie heads with no springs, retainers, or rockers. Add anew sheet metal intake for $1,800, a short deck bow tie block with all the bells, and whistles, around $8,000, diamond Pistons done right, $2,000, crank, $3,500, steel rods, $4,000, (and that's being generous) rings, $1,400, cam, $800, lifters, $1,000, oil pan, $1,000, external pump, $800, star vac system, $1,400, valve covers, $200, push rods, $400,springs, and retainers, $900, machine work, assembly, and dyno, $7,000, and Jessel rockers for $1,500, carburetor, $2,000, spacer, $150, not cheap but very challenging. That's well over $40,000.