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Old 08-21-2005, 10:54 PM
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im about to buy a stock cubes short block, im just wondering who i can trust, and what some of you guys have in your cars, and whats held up and whats blown up
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i know tsp and lme build some good short block and i believe Texas Speed is 2700 and there is now core charge
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LME. They build awesome stuff and theyre about 10 mins from my house, lol.
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LME.Pecos and Bryan no there ****.
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MTI hands down, heard nothing but good stuff about them since I have been looking at this forum since 01!
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Joe Sherman comes to mind, along with Kurt at Wheel to Wheel, which that shop has built both of the fastest (Casper)and second fastest LSx Engine. Cartek. LME. MTI. HPE. Race Engine Development.
I'd add Hardcore Motorsports, but it would be cheaper to send it to Wheel 2 Wheel yourself and skip the middle man.

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HPE does pretty good, never heard anything bad about them and mine is holding together fine
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MTI has been building LS based engines longer then anyone else. No one else compares.
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HPE here, great service, very quick turn around, etc.
Erik had a shortblock to me (along with a few other valve train pieces) within 2 weeks.
Give them a call, their prices are great, and service is amazing.
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Looks to me like you really can't go wrong with any of the big sponsors.
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Originally Posted by Brandon
HPE here, great service, very quick turn around, etc.
Erik had a shortblock to me (along with a few other valve train pieces) within 2 weeks.
Give them a call, their prices are great, and service is amazing.
HPE's Ls1 section is down though
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LME. Hands down the best IMO
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Don't forget the stuff from Lingenfelter. No body has been stroking Chevy's longer.
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Originally Posted by firefighter
Don't forget the stuff from Lingenfelter. No body has been stroking Chevy's longer.
Very good point!
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Originally Posted by firefighter
Don't forget the stuff from Lingenfelter. No body has been stroking Chevy's longer.
Nobody charges more either
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Everyone has built junk here too..even MTI and Lingenfelter....just depends if you get one on a good day....build it yourself and there is no one else to blame...but it sucks and is alot of work...they all earn their pay.
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Originally Posted by SporkLover
HPE's Ls1 section is down though
Give them a call, like most places, they wont list exact prices, as everything is built to order.
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MTI hands down or if you want some INSANE set up W2W might be the way to go....
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thanks for the help guy, ill be on the phone monday morning for sure
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What about katech, don't they build the engines for the c5r and c6r?



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