Roger and others have the right of it in my estimation. My son blew his 351W and needed the car for to get to work, so we found a re-man from a reputable builder and speced a cam for it; got the long block in a day, and working a few hours at night after he got off work, we had it in and running in two days. Just transferred all of the shiny, pretty parts from the old one to the new and set it back in the car. Total cost was somewhere just shy of $2200, including me having to buy some shop equipment that I had disposed of in another life in error.

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