How much should a basic 340 rebuild cost?

junkyardhero said
i'd love to see an itemized receipt on that.

i just built out a quick and dirty summit cart for a stock rebuild and it was damn near 2K, and i'm sure i forgot some things and stuffs. and that's before machine work on the block and whatever the heads need.

while i don't doubt you could do it for 4K, i think that would be the exception not the norm. the last few i've done have been in the 5+ range and weren't anything special.

This is my receipt for the machine work and some of the parts. The shop offered a bit of a discount on labor if I got the parts through them.

I also went with new heads, so I don't know what it would cost to get those done.

I am assuming, for the sake of this conversation that when we say "basic rebuild" we are reusing most of the parts we already have except for things like oil pump and timing chain that may be fine to reuse, but you should probably get them while you're at it.