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<blockquote data-quote="DCguy" data-source="post: 16809883" data-attributes="member: 196849"><p>You'd be at $6-$7k on a rebuild before you knew it, especially if you're delivering them a non-running car and expecting a running car when you return. It'll be at least a grand to pull the motor and then another grand to install it. That leaves you with $4k for a rebuild.</p><p></p><p>Its very unlikely that you're going to pull the motor, tear it apart down to the bare block and ONLY fix the crank and then put it all back together again without touching anything else. That's if the crank is salvageable...if not there's another $600-$800......at the bare minimum you're going to get all new gaskets and seals, main and rod bearings, and misc items you should definitely do while you're in there.......billet oil pump gears, new water pump, iron primary tensioners if your car still has the plastic ones, head cooling mod, ARP hardware etc..........no sense in not getting ARP main and head studs while you have it apart along with side bolts and crank bolt.</p><p></p><p>If your crank is salvageable, that's going to require some machine work getting the keyways fixed and you might as well have it turned and polished while its there.....that's going to be a pretty penny.</p><p></p><p>Since you're going to the machine shop anyway and you have the heads off the car I would highly suggest having them gone through and at minimum doing a valve job. If you have 4 thread heads this would be a good time to convert them to 9 thread with some timeserts. Hopefully your valves, springs, retainers, locks are in good shape so you can leave those alone, but if you want to add cams in the future now would be the time to do those as well. Finish them off with a deck job and you're looking at least $1-$2k in machine work/parts for the heads there.</p><p></p><p>If your keyway is jacked up hopefully your balancer and crank gear also not in need of replacement.</p><p></p><p>Lastly, if you're opening up a factory sealed motor with old timing components, i'd also throw in a fresh set of lifters/adjusters to be safe and a fresh set of timing chains.</p><p></p><p>All that is IF everything else in the motor is in good shape, which I promise you, is not the case. There is always something that you're going to find or needs attention. New belt tensioners, pulleys, power steering pump/rack leak that you're going to want to fix while you're in there, etc etc.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I could keep going on, but you get the point. That's just off the top of my head and I just spent $10k for you on what I would consider a pretty "basic" rebuild. These motors aren't cheap and if you plan to build/rebuild them with the same money it takes to do a 5.0 you're going to be doing it again pretty soon. Do it once.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DCguy, post: 16809883, member: 196849"] You'd be at $6-$7k on a rebuild before you knew it, especially if you're delivering them a non-running car and expecting a running car when you return. It'll be at least a grand to pull the motor and then another grand to install it. That leaves you with $4k for a rebuild. Its very unlikely that you're going to pull the motor, tear it apart down to the bare block and ONLY fix the crank and then put it all back together again without touching anything else. That's if the crank is salvageable...if not there's another $600-$800......at the bare minimum you're going to get all new gaskets and seals, main and rod bearings, and misc items you should definitely do while you're in there.......billet oil pump gears, new water pump, iron primary tensioners if your car still has the plastic ones, head cooling mod, ARP hardware etc..........no sense in not getting ARP main and head studs while you have it apart along with side bolts and crank bolt. If your crank is salvageable, that's going to require some machine work getting the keyways fixed and you might as well have it turned and polished while its there.....that's going to be a pretty penny. Since you're going to the machine shop anyway and you have the heads off the car I would highly suggest having them gone through and at minimum doing a valve job. If you have 4 thread heads this would be a good time to convert them to 9 thread with some timeserts. Hopefully your valves, springs, retainers, locks are in good shape so you can leave those alone, but if you want to add cams in the future now would be the time to do those as well. Finish them off with a deck job and you're looking at least $1-$2k in machine work/parts for the heads there. If your keyway is jacked up hopefully your balancer and crank gear also not in need of replacement. Lastly, if you're opening up a factory sealed motor with old timing components, i'd also throw in a fresh set of lifters/adjusters to be safe and a fresh set of timing chains. All that is IF everything else in the motor is in good shape, which I promise you, is not the case. There is always something that you're going to find or needs attention. New belt tensioners, pulleys, power steering pump/rack leak that you're going to want to fix while you're in there, etc etc. Anyway, I could keep going on, but you get the point. That's just off the top of my head and I just spent $10k for you on what I would consider a pretty "basic" rebuild. These motors aren't cheap and if you plan to build/rebuild them with the same money it takes to do a 5.0 you're going to be doing it again pretty soon. Do it once. [/QUOTE]
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