Just picked up a 2008 aluminum(edit) 70,000 mile 5.3 with a bad head gasket for $400, Pulled the heads before purchase and confirmed it was just the head gasket. It goes with my other engines that I have less than $100 each into = 2 LQ4's, 1 ly6 and an iron 5.3.
Those are just engines I don't have an engine bay to drop them in yet. Just have a hard time passing up good deals.

 

I hope my wife never reads this...

5-5.3's, 6-6.0's. I can't even count all the 350's 400's 396's 454's Cad 500's couple Buick 455's 401 nailheads. Old's 455's.

These are some of the ones that had to go outside to make room for the "good stuff" to go inside.

It is truly a disease...

 

I know someone who started stockpiling the old sbc and bbc engines because he figured there would be a big demand for them when everything went LS, Not long ago he admitted he'll likely never get his money back lol. The demand never came and likely never will when you can make the power you do with an LS based engine and go EFI at the same time.

 

I never collected with the idea of making a ton of money on them...I started to collect this stuff in the late 70's...long before the "LS" was even a twinkle in someone's eye...

 

Right now I have a 5.7L LT1 block I am going to turn into a Chevy 302 and a 4.3L L99 sitting on a furniture dolly. Soon, I'll have a Porsche 2.7 out of a 944.

 

ive got 2 built forged 6.0's, freshened L92, iron 5.7, and a 5.3. Most of these are for sale if your looking. lol. Plus I have 3 ls swapped vehicles soon to be 4.

 

Just found this old thread. Thinking about my 6 engines hanging in and around my house. It also made me think about my old buddy and boss from the late 80's who used to go from junkyard to junkyard collecting ford 9"center sections. He got ton's of these just stating he would pay $50 bucks each and he took all he could of these Posi's that came out of mostly vans and trucks at the time. He must be rich now. lol.

 

L31 Vortec 5.7
L36 4.3
LQ9
468 BBC
Several sbc 350 blocks
283 SBC

 

Complete Engines
SBC 350
SBC 305
LS1 w/heads & cam

Blocks for projects...
LS6
LS2
ERL 5.3 Sleeved 4.125 bore

 

Alum 5.3 short block to shave weight in the S10. If I found motors for couple hundred bucks I would begin a collection too!

 

Im down with the sickness