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I've been contemplating going thru the rebuilding or the buying of a crate motor. Seeing I'd have to have a shop do most of the work on a rebuild I started searching for crate motors. Ford offers a couple and I also located another company that builds a wide variety of motors.If you haven't been to their site it is; autoengines.com. Has anyone here ever dealt with these folks? It sounds like a great program and I believe in what they are telling me. I would be purchasing a 460 and that 506 horse sounds like enough. Any help would be appreciated.
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If you want to assemble it yourself, you can save a bunch of money by buying unassembled short or long blocks from PAW. And that will allow you to configure c/r, cam, etc. to whatever specs you're after.
I'm not familiar with autoengines.com, but $6250 with a stock distributor, coil and harmonic dampner sounds like there's at least $2k in there for assembly labor and the video.
I'm not familiar with autoengines.com, but $6250 with a stock distributor, coil and harmonic dampner sounds like there's at least $2k in there for assembly labor and the video.
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I just finished doing a 460 complete rebuild bored crank turned new cam lifters and new fuel injectors heads surfaced. I have a valve grinder so I did the valves total was right at 1700 hundred dollars parts and machine work. So if you can put one togather then it is a whole lot cheaper then 6200 dollars.
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Thanks for the input. I know it is a chunk of change but I like the idea also of the out of the truck and back in all within a weekend. There would be additional costs; headers, torque converter and other unforseen things that always pop up. That does make it a expensive project with little hope of recovering much of the cost.
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If you really want power, get a Ford Racing Performance Parts( formerly SVO) 614 cid big block crate motor. It's built by Ford so you know that it is good and it makes a &^%$load of power!!!! 
