Matt,
When you are ready to buy your engine we have one of the best shops around. Give Kent Kanady a call at Carbone' Machine Shop here in Tulsa at (918)835-6596. I was in there Monday and he was preparing 3 race engines for a racer in Montana, and was working on a 460 for a racer in California.
Steve Carbone' was a NHRA World record holder in Top Fuel for many years. They build great race engines or they can build you a great street engine. Prices are very fair. I have thrashed my engine hard at six races and it hasn't lost a pound of
oil pressure or power. I can attest to them standing behind their work even if it is your fault (I plummed my
oil lines backwards once).
I let them build my 428 CJ and they machined my block, heads, manifold, provided TRW rods, pistons, pins, cam, solid lifters, timing gear and chain, all bearings and gaskets and balanced and assembled the whole engine for around $3,000.00. I had already bought the aluminium heads and Sig Erson roller rockers. I had to take it to another shop for the Dyno (they didn't have the right set up for a FE to dyno.
Tell Steve or Kent I told you to call and they might charge you even more.
Clois