Does anyone sell "crate" motors that are not "408"s?

Most of the crate engines all have heads with a valve job left un checked, edges and flow loss. Factory did a better job in regard to valve jobs. Be better if they just left the heads/intake off and supplied the gaskets so you could just go through'em.

At BluePrint, we manufacture our own aluminum GM and ford heads, and for Mopars, we buy the raw casting from edelbrock, and machine/assemble in nebraska ourselves. I know we're not on your list...but i want to point out that generalization does not apply to us.