Lets build a CHEAP(!!!!!!!) bracket motor!

JBurch said
To do it for $1000.00 or less you will have to side step many "conventional" operations, spend your money on the heads, that is where the power is.

Don't hot tank the block, take it to the car wash and spend $5.00 or so.........rings yes, blue berry hone, bearings maybe, depends on what they look like

Don't spend a dime you don't have to, but when you do make it count for the goal

I agree. My cylinder head ideas came from doing exactly as discribed to a set of 340 heads thirty years ago. My son had no money so we did what we could. That motor got a Comp 268h hydraulic and ran very well for what we did to it. It embaressed cars that it should not have been able to. 73 duster 340 4spd 3.21 gears.