MRL Performance 340, WOW!
Great job, excessive cost though.
Good luck building a similar engine, carb to pan, for much less.
Sure, maybe if you build it yourself, but if you send it out to a shop and want a complete dynoed 340 that makes 470 hp I think you'd be in that ballpark.
The 340 I referenced earlier in the thread, a '68 340 .060" over with KB 243's, ported 308's flowing 264cfm at .500", Lunati 60404, windage tray, stock resized rods with ARP bolts, .020/.020 forged crank, RPM AG, Harland Sharp roller rockers, etc, cost me a little over $6k for all the major work/parts, at which point I stopped counting. And that's with some of the parts being bought used, like the "new" Harlands that were used for a test fit only and I bought for half of new. Or the head work that was done at a "friend" price. I know I've got more into it at this point, and had I bought all the goodies brand new out of the box it would have been more anyway. Plus, I did the assembly on a lot of the engine. And I still don't have it on the dyno, and its still not a carb to pan engine, and it doesn't have a custom roller cam.
I think ~$9k for that engine is a pretty fair price.
