Best price on a 283 SBC rebuild kit?

[Nads]

Who's got the best deal?
I bought a kit for my 235" from PAW, real good prices.
I know you SBC homo sheep know where the good deals are.

I'm probably not gonna have my '54 Chevy done for The Atlanta Star Lite Drive In show, but I can definitely have my new V8 in the '60 wagon, and that thing's like a modern car compared to all the other junk I own.

I'm not driving the Packford all that way, fucking uncomfortable piece of shit.

[Hot Rod To Hell]

I've always got kits from http://www.northernautoparts.com

[Hot Rod To Hell]

or www.enginekits.com (http://www.enginekits.com)

[AHotRod]

Nads:
Just call Steve or Rob @ http://www.northernautoparts.com/

Tell 'em I sent ya.
Best parts and prices, and fast service.


Glenn Hayes

[Nads]

Wow HRTH, Northern's master kit's just $299.69 including an RV cam. Dang that's cheap, thanks for the tip.
My pal Dave recommended them too.
Hooray for Hollywood.

Value for money, yet another reason you fags love SBCs so much.

[fab32]

Ditto on Northern Auto Parts. I've used them and can vouch for the fair prices and great service. Have them send you a catalog, they've got lots of goodies.

Frank

[Tudor]

nads - call these guys on the phone - they arein charlotte - they can build you a reman'd long block 350 for 400 bucks

http://www.automotiveenginewarehouse.com/

1-800-480-8825

I talked to the guy a while and he had a nice 10:1 motor with good internals put together for me for 850.

I decided to build my 283 instead and had 950 into quick and am still not done. Not the best power per dollar

just call em - they are the best deal I could find

[Nads]

I can't tell you how excited I am about having a SBC again, it's been 20 years since I owned a car with one. I drove my '57 Chevy all over tarnation, and it rarely let me down.
Even though I love my '56 Packard powered Ford, the idea of hitting the road with thing's kinda scary. True, I do drive it a lot, but I don't think I can hop in it and go to New Orleans or anything.

[Nads]

I hear you Tudor, but I found this clean engine for $250 with all the accessories, I couldn't pass it up.
The machine work's going to be about $700.
I'm doing the assembly.
If everything goes OK, I reckon I'll be into it for about $1500.
I know I coulda bought a crate motor that puts out 300 hp for the same money, but by the time you add a carb and headers and shit it ratchets up fast.
I have no desire to haul ass, because believe me, foot powered rickshaws have better pick up than I've got right now.

[Tudor]

amen - it adds up quick - Those numbers were for short blocks as well - I was thinking wrong
long live the 283 - that's real nos talgia any way - right!!!

I can't wait to see how mine runs - it might haul for all I know - I gave it as much compresion as I could.

[Nads]

Talk about rarity!!!
Superior customer service that is.
Northern rules, the rep on the line was the nicest I've ever dealt with, makes Discount Pep look like assholes, which in reality is what they are.

Thank you all for giving me a heads up on this company, I'm a customer for life.

[Hot Rod To Hell]

I got my VERY first rebuild kit from them when I was 14 yrs old, and I have been a customer ever since! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Deuce Roadster]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/DeuceRoadster/2-4-1-1041869852.jpg


I decided to go thru my old 283 the fall of 02.
I had everything you see in the above photo.

I bored the block .060
New pistons and rings
new mains and rod bearings
new cam bearings
Freeze plugs
FelPro gasket set
Valve job, new guides and a few valves $$$
balanced the engine ($175)
New oil pump and pickup


I already had a new "097 cam, lifters and springs".............from the old days http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


Vatted the pieces

<font color="red"> I could have bought a NEW 350 longblock from Chevrolet for less </font> <font color="green"> $$$ </font> ..... for $1350
I am in over 15 hundred for the 283.

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[Tman]

DR, I built my SBC for the 54 a coupleyears back. I did everything that you did minus the balance and bore but PLUS a cam and lifter kit. I had $600 into it for machining and parts. I assembled it with the help of a couple friends.

[AHotRod]

Crate Motors are fine, If you don't have a preference in the quality or strength of the parts used.
It has never been "Cheap" to re-do an engine, you get what you pay for in most cases.

Northern Rules!

AHotRod

[Nads]

Well the way I look at it, it's an old engine, it's lived for 42 years and it's only going 30 over. It's got many lives left, it's recycling if you will.
Obviously a crate motor is the better deal, and with the right parts can look like a vintage engine, but I'll get some sort of cheap thrill from knowing I'm running an engine built in 1962.

Deuce roadster, your car and it's engine are quite beautiful.

[Roothawg]

Plus the crate motors are built in Mexico. Draw what you will from that.

[Orange54]

http://home.mchsi.com/~tpetty/wsb/media/129404/site1039.jpg

283
.040 over
turned crank .010
new pistons
rv cam
reworked heads
etc.

$1300.00 give or take.

[slammed]

For ten year's the magazine's have been pushing the 'crate' engine's....yes, save hassle, money, ect and some better head's,more power. But the early SBC have soul,seasoned by time.