Displacement= expensive?
Displacement= expensive? Forgive my ignorance, but why does it get so freaking expensive so fast when you start to look at higher displacement motors? I have a stock '00 Ws6 and if I end up taking the motor out to bulletproof it soon I figure, "why not raise the displacement?" I want a 427 or a 454 if I'm going to do it, and I understand the sleeving process is expensive, but what the hell? I can't find anywhere that will build even just the block and rotating assembly for less then 8-9 grand! That's nuts! It's just a fun car, not a full-on race car!
If anybody knows a less expensive way to get big cubes, please let me know!
Thanks!
If anybody knows a less expensive way to get big cubes, please let me know!
Thanks!
You can get a 423 out of a iron block, but that's about as big/cheap as you can get. I'm having a 454 built right now and it is $7500 for the short block. I was around $5800 when I was going with the 441, but I decided to step up to a longer stroke Lunati crank that was over $2k by itself. The rotating assemablly in these bigger cubed motors are probablly Lunati or Callies kits, which are almost $4k by themselves. Then add the sleeved block, machining and labor and you have a big tab. I would say you could get a 427 LS2 for around $5500.
You can go up to a 4.125" stroke with a stock block for "cheap." You only need to purchase the rotating assembly. Thats like a 394ci motor. You can also do a 402 for "cheap" plus a little more for the block. This would require the use of a LS2 or 6.0L iron block, keeping the 4.0" bore. Once you jump up to 422, 427, 436, and 454, you start paying a TON of money, mostly into the block due to sleeving and heads to feed the large cubes.
