Steve Dulcich on building a budget 318

I ran out of money on my first budget build. The machine shop work to clean up the cylinders and get new pistons drained my “budget”. I ended up building the motor piece by piece over time as I was able to save money to buy the parts that I needed. That was back in 1977 when I had to use friends, the junkyard, and swap meets to obtain what I wanted.

Nowadays, the “budget” should be stated such as $500 or $2000 or $10,000.