Slant 6 to 340 swap

I went from a \6 to a 360. I did it in stages;

1. Swapped the rear end which also required shortening the drive shaft. The rear end was a freebee that I spent about $300 rebuilding first. The drive shaft was $75 for a cut balance and new u-joints.
2. Most \6 cars have 9" drum brakes which are altogether inadequate if you plan to drive on the street. I swapped in 73+ A-body disk brakes. I picked up a doner car for the spindles and control arms and used the rotors and calipers for cores on rebuilts. The new rotors, bearings, hoses, calipers was about $200. The doner cost me a case of beer and the time to hall it out of a co-workers back yard.
3. Built a stout 360. Picked up the 360 core for $50 and spend another $2500 on machining and parts.
4. Picked up a sb bell housing off the internet for $75. New flywheel and clutch was about $300
5. Picked up a new 22" heavy duty radiator for $150. and a set of hedman headers. I had headers and dual exhaust on the \6 that I purposely bent up so that I could easily adapt them to the v8 headers.
6. Cleaned up the v8 k-member from the doner car.
7. Swapped in the 360 using the accessory brackets from the 318 in the doner.

My recommendation is to keep your eyes out for parts that are a deal. There is always a deal to be had, you just need to keep your eyes open and jump when the opportunity presents it self. I just picked up a 340 long block that has less than 2500 miles on the rebuild for zip, another guy just wanting it out of his garage.