Price to rebuild an engine??

[1FatPony]

Could someone tell me how much it sould cost to:

rebuild my engine myself
have someone else rebuild my engine
buy a new/rebuilt engine altogether

Thanks

 

[marine_2003]

thats going to depend on what exactly you want done. Whether or not your going bigger or stock bore. how bad the block is, if its cracked or what. we need some more info.

 

[1FatPony]

assuming there is not cracks in the block or heads. How much would it be to bore it to a 306 and just stock to a 302(like .03 or whatever).

 

[jete]

For 450-500 you could find a decent 302 and get someone to put it in up here The hillbillies up here need money to by that meth.

 

[Foxfan88]

i spent about 1.5-2k on my my mild engine build.

100 for donar engine.
200 for machining
200 for rering kit
600-700 on HCI and the rest on small parts

i found it very easy.

 

[302RollinHard]

I am in the same boat. I have found though, if you are going to put good internals (read forged pistons, etc) in the block sometimes it is cheaper to just buy the short block. WIth the stroker setup I am considering, by the time I get the block worked, and buy the internals, I am only ~$300 shy of the cost of a shortblock, this is without balancing the rotating assembly (~$200)and for me, I don't make my living putting motors together, so I will find a reputable company that does and let them do it for me and save a little more and spend a little more for a better finished product.

 

[1FatPony]

Is is it better or cheaper to buy a long block or short block?

 

[rd]

There are several approaches here. If you need the car up and running, the best approach is to find a core motor and rebuild it, then just swap it in.

For a basic rebuild of the stock 5.0, doing it a home, with only the machine work farmed out, you could probably do it for $900 to 1300 at the least. Cleaning, inspection and machine work, for the block and heads will be $4-700 or so, parts are the rest. Rock bottom would be finding that you can just rering, and not have to buy new, oversize pistons.

If you go to upgrading stuff, think in the $2000 to $3500 range, easily.

You really don't need a lot of high dollar parts for a street car, the stock type stuff will go a long way.

Obviously, the longblock route is fast.

The most street performance will be from a basicly stock short block with as much money as possible put towards better heads or porting, etc.