Ritter disaster

Ehhhh, as I said, it’s not the block price but work after purchase lulled with someone who knows WTF there doing. The cost above the purchase price is a minor concern because I want I read about them. The issues seem to be wide and varied as well as extensive in some cases.

Since machining prices vary widely by region and shop, have an idea from a known reputable shop could help somewhat.

That is not so much a question on block cost because of the reasoning above but closer to a possible heads up that could be used in conversation with a local machinist.

The biggest item is the “Work needed” on the block (as I said, reported as wide and varied) and ask my local machinist his costs.

Again, purchase price is one thing, readiness is another, cost? I wouldn’t want to spend another 2500 or 5K in work just to make the block usable score entertaining any thoughts on the rotating assembly & heads.


Who spent 2500 fixing a block? A Ritter block? Again I have never, ever taken a block out of the crate and ran it. Never. Dart. World. Indy. X block. R block. None of them. Bow Tie crap.

They ALL need machine work. Every one of them. Every one needed the mains cleaned up, the decks cut, the bores finished. Some needed lifter bores corrected. Some were sent back. I had two BT blocks for the same customer that I sent back. Scroggins-Dickey was sending him junk. Finally he found one somewhere else.

So the lie that the GM and Ford guys buy blocks and just drop them in is just that, a lie.