Crate motor prices, Who's smoking crack???

For anyone interested in a fairly inexpensive crate motor, I ran across a guy on ebay selling LA blocks with Magnum heads for ~$2.5-3.5K, I recall. He says he uses LA blocks because stronger than Magnum. He can install either a carb intake or the "beer keg" MPI intake with engine controller included. The later seems a fantastic deal compared to ~$3K people pay for just an after-market MPI intake systems (mostly Chevy & Ford). Says he is a 71 year old engineer who is supplementing his SSI checks. I don't know him. I previously posted my "beer keg" on an LA idea, so the offering caught my eye. If I switched to Magnum heads, I would want aluminum ones to save ~50 lb.