Slant 6 power issues

volaredon said
5 grand to rebuild a slant 6? That's with who doing the job? And with them doing the pull and install, or you? I did my own, had to farm out the machine work, I'd have to go back and do some figuring, but I know I'm not into mine for over about $1500-1700 with about 1/2 of that to the machine shop. And that counts much of the duplicate and triplicate parts I ended up with, along the way.

Look on eBay. There's been a place in Texas ("MABBCO") I believe? Selling complete long blocks no core needed for $1700 ish and short blocks around $1200-ish completely remanufactured ready to go. No core needed. At $5g's, you'd be money ahead to start there at that price. Unless you are building something exotic.

I’m building a performance engine. Triple side drafts that don’t fit stock exhaust so I’d have to buy a set of headers for it that will fit, that’s nearly $800 cause they’re from Australia, along with the inlet manifold for the carbs. Aluminum rockers and rocker shaft is like $1,400. New flat top pistons. I’m gonna see if I can put an older model closed chamber head on it to raise compression. Might get an aluminum valve cover, but with how expensive those are for the slant, i may decide against it. Not sure yet. I also am going to go through and replace every gasket and seal on the whole thing and paint it all up nice since I eventually want it to be a show car