I just built a very nice daily driver 350. It gets my truck with 3.07 gears moving very quickly and the 50-70 acceleration is really fast. I built it with 9.25:1 compression using Keith Black 193 pistons, new Vortec heads, .010 off the deck, .020 out of the bore, summit stage 1 bushed rods, Comp XE256H cam, Edelbrock Performer Vortec intake, etc... The total came to $2600 for parts and labor. If you reuse your old block and rods, you can knock about $600 off that figure.