[joyridin']

Here is my opinion; I would never buy somebody's rebuild unless I knew the guy that rebuilt the engine. Paying $17k for an unknown is a lot of money that you could waste. Getting it home and finding 3 months later that the crank had been turned 40/40, the block overbored beyond safe limits, the heads milled .06", and various other cheap parts used could result in you having a big pile of scrap.

Over the years I have bought my fair share of good deals. Lucky for me it was individual parts that I was able to fix. Some of the stuff people do just amaze me. Heck, my buddy bought a crate engine some years ago and pulled the heads. All the pistons were in backwards...and this was an engine right from Mopar Performance!