Quote Originally Posted by scorpion1110 View Post
Rick, I understand and what you're saying makes sense. But when you are spending $2000-$3000k Should you have to?
Actually it was $5770. I was going to buy a 383 from a Smeding Performance in San Antonio. But my wife wanted to go with a Chevrolet Performance engine. Here thinking was that if we were traveling and had a problem we wouldn't have to worry about what parts the builder used, we would have all GM parts and could get them at any Chevy dealer.

We just now got the engine unwrapped and in the frame. So far we have the timing tab problem and the new fuel pump is defective. I hope that is the only problems we run into.