Opinions please

Why play with this fool. keep the engine and tell him to go pound sand. you aren't the first guy this fella tried to welch on , you can bet on that. and who the F pays 500 bucks for a rusty old 396.
Agree w/ this, "if " I was going to build a rat it would be the biggest I could come up with anyway. Same as GEN 3 HEMI, WHY GO TO ALL THAT TROUBLE FOR A LOW H.P. VERSION TO START WITH.