For those curious. My bill for my short block.

I may have been given a discount but I'm not sure- again I know the owner. For Heads I tasked them to find a set of usable Magnum heads. I have abandoned my chinese EQ Magnum heads with LA bolt pattern because they are just to questionable in quality-for performance. By tasking the Machine shop to find a set of heads I had two people in the know looking for me: The supplier to the machine shop and then the machine shop themselves. They found me a BEAUTIFUL set of Magnum heads. I purchased the castings from the machine shop and am currently mildly porting and polishing those castings. Magnum era iron castings are soo much cleaner than the LA era. Parting lines are tight and match up- not as much slaggy junk to smooth out. When all is said and done I will have a some $$ into OEM heads but Im fine with that. A different machine shop 30 miles north of me actually drills Magnum heads with the LA intake bolt pattern. I will be doing this. I already have Hughes valve springs, retainers, locks and new Int and Exh valves.