Under $4k budget build LA360 build

Dartswinger70 said
I will chime in as far as parts. I do agree name brand stuff, fel Pro, Clevite77,Melling,Sealed power etc. alot of stuff these days is overseas made not quality like 20-25 years ago. An example, I had a rod bearing that didn't have the "oil hole" in the bearing halves on a 302 Ford build that I did about ten years ago. I used a small round file to gently file in the hole halves for the bearing shell. Things like that if you don't know what you are looking at you might miss it. Point is, spend the extra for hopefuly quality made parts especially engine internals that you would have to yank the engine out to fix. The old car thing is getting difficult because it is a small market and the parts arent what they used to be. Good luck.

I totally agree. I’m 100% a quality first guy. I’d like to find some deals though as I go along, but won’t sacrifice quality over the price. I’ll just wait it out and save a little more. I thought because it was Mancini that it would have a high standard without question, but I need to question, especially on something like this. Thank you! I going to be taking the advice of y’all on this build. I’ve read so many threads at this point and have seen how expansive the knowledge base of this crowd is. It’s impressive and I’d be an idiot not to follow the guidance of the countless years of collective years experience here.