So my friend is going to port some J's. He works out of his garage and is just trying to gt going after a rough spell. Then Cogswell Marine and motorsports is going to flow them and do the valve job. The owner, Mitch Cogswell, and I are friends as well.
The friend that is porting the J heads has had his ported heads on the flow bench at Cogswell and Mitch said it was good job. I think you are misunderstanding about the heads being flowed or not being flowed. Friend "A" that is porting does not have a flowbench. Friend "B" has the machine shop and a flow bench. The heads get flowed.
For the engine? Yes. $12,500 to IMM but I purchased the Pro Flo efi and cylinder heads separate ($4000). The lifter bores are bushed and it took a sleeve so that added about $2500 into that cost.
Tremec trans., bellhousing, hyd. throwout bearing another $4,700. Probably another $3500+ into everything hanging off the k-frame.
You're looking at over 25k in these pics.
I know. Guys can beat me up about making as much power for less and be jealous about how much I've dumped into this so far but it makes me happy and it's cheaper than buying a new Challenger SRT or Hellcat, or whatever people pay stupid interest rates on.
It's not like Daddy is buying this for me. I get hazard pay for fighting wildland fires. I risk my life for that and I get paid extra when that happens. My job aint no joke and just the preparation, alone, to do my job would kill 3/4 of the guys on here. Summertime and Santa Ana's help me stack the cash. All my extra pay above my base pay has gone into this for the last 3 years. All this was hard earned.